Books and Manuscripts · Lotto 1520
Crane, W.
The Baby's own Aesop being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals. London/ New York, Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. (1887), 56 full-p. col. ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by W. CRANE, engraved and printed in colours by E. EVANS, sq. 8vo.
Idem. The Baby's Opera. A book of old rhymes with new dresses. Ibid., idem, n.d. (1877), 56p., 11 full-p. col. ills., col./ tinted border decorations, orig. clothbacked pict. boards by W. CRANE, engraved and printed in colours by E. EVANS, scores, sq. 8vo.
Idem. The Baby's Bouquêt. A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes. Ibid., G. Routledge and Sons, n.d. (±1880), 2nd rev. ed., 56p., 10 full-p. col. ills., col./ tinted border decorations, orig. clothbacked pict. boards by W. CRANE, cut and printed in colours by E. EVANS, scores, sq. 8vo.
AND 3 others by W. CRANE: i.a. N. HAWTHORNE, Wonder Book for Girls & Boys (Boston, 1902, 60 col. plates, col. ills. and orig. dec. cl. by W. CRANE) and Little Queen Anne, and Her Majesty's Letters (London, 1886, 24 full-p. col. ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by W. CRANE).
- Lotto
- 1520
- Stima
- 100 € – 150 €
- Foto
- 2 foto
Condizioni
Board edges rubbed, corners showing. Otherwise a good copy.
Contents good; bookblock shaken. Board edges rubbed, corners showing.
New endpapers; bookplate. Rebacked; board edges rubbed, corners showing.
Note
Massé p.36; Spencer, Walter Crane p.97.
Massé p.30; Spencer, Walter Crane p.60 ("(...) marks the beginning of a new chapter in the story of Crane's illustration for children") and p.76.
cf. Massé p.31; Walter Crane p.77; The Children's World of Learning 3670; Bilderwelt 2228; Ki.la.ki.le. 619; Brüggemann II, 148; Osborne I, p.93. On Evans see P. Muir, Victorian Illustrated Books p.157, 158 and 164; Johnson 44.
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