Author: Crane, Walter. (Illustrator).
Title: THE BABY’S OPERA. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses by ... The Music By the Earliest Masters. Engraved & Printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
Description: London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, N.d. c.[1876]. Reprint. Slim Square 8vo. 56pp. Illustrated throughout in colour, with music examples. Some light age toning, upper hinge cracked, shaken, original brown cloth backed pictorial boards, soiled and sl. rubbed, sl. wear to edges and corners, head and tail of spine sl. bumped. ¶ Osborne pp.93. ‘The tunes were collected and arranged by Walter Crane’s sister Lucy. The book enjoyed immediate and prolonged success, though it was considered a doubtful risk because it had "no gold on the cover". the pictorial covers were designed by the Artist.’

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