Author: CRANE, WALTER; W. J. LINTON
Title: The Baby's Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals, Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane
Description: London & NY: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Walter Crane. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, printed endpapers. Profusely illustrated in color by Walter Crane with drwaings, in-set text, borders, and ornaments, all engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. The text is taken from W. J. Linton's manuscript "The Wisdom of Aesop." Publisher's Eratta and Addenda slip bound in. [Osborne I, p. 2].. Edges mildly worn, hinges visible between a few pages, but tight and square; unmarked, all text and illustrations bright and clean. VERY GOOD. Color Engravings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 56 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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