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First edition

CRANE, Walter.
The Baby's Opera. A Book of Old Rhymes with new Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters.

With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.



London, New York, Edmund Evans, Frederick Warne & Co., (1877). Sm.4to. Orig. half cloth, with beautifully designed and decorated boards, printed in black and white on reddish brown boards, red painted edges. With finely designed and illustrated title-page printed in light blue and yellow, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 full-page colour-printed wood-engraved plates, beautifully illustrated colour-printed borders and book decoration throughout, and with musical scores to all the old rhymes, all designed by Walter Crane and wood-engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. 56 pp.

First edition of the first of the two beautiful children's picture books with nursery rhymes by Walter Crane and with music by his sister Lucy Crane. The book is the counterpart - or "companion" as the artist himself put it - to The Baby's Opera. According to Scheinitz The Baby's Opera was at first rejected by the booksellers, but was so well received by the general public that the first issue of 10,000 copies was sold within four weeks. The Baby's Bouquet followed  after two years, and was, if possible, still more beautifully designed and executed. In these books Crane realized his views about children's picture books to the full, almost turning them into medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Fine copy.
Scheinitz, Walter Crane, p. 33, and ill. no. 19 on p. 21; Percy Muir, p. 186, et passim about the artist; KLKL 620; Osborne Coll. p. 93; Die Bilderwelt 2227; Seebass 430; Gumuchian 1920.

Related Subjects: Children's Books  English  Picture Books 

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