Johnny Crows Garden. A Picture Book. Illustrated with eight coloured plates and numerous black and white by the author. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1935. Later Printing. A nice bright copy copy in quarter cloth and pictorial paper boards & endpapers, with original pictorial dust jacket.

A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book featuring Johnny Crow who made a garden in which a variety of animals do bizarre things in rhyme. First published in 1903.

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was an English artist  and prolific illustrator of children’s books. Noted for his pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors where he best expressed his sense of fun and character, especially through his depiction of animals.