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Walter Crane. The Baby's Opera. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London, 1877.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original pictorial boards have wear to extremities, bumped corners, slight fading to rear board, but overall still bright and in very good condition. Internally in wonderful condition with no marks or browning. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Full of wonderful illustrations in addition to the sheet music to a host of children's favourite nursery rhymes. No Date. Presumed First Edition. 10 Full page colour illustrations and intricate border designs that are truly beautiful. Walter Crane was an artist, designer, socialist, interior decorator and leading member of the Arts & Craft movement. However his reputation has always rested secure and illustrious on his illustrated Toy books, nursery titles and wallpaper. Much of his work being dedicated to children.
Seller: Moriarty's, Grimsby, LINCO, United Kingdom
CRANE, Walter. The Baby's Opera. Frederick Warne & Co. [1877], New York, 1877.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo, one quarter maroon cloth over red illustrated paper boards, off-white and brown illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, sheet music and color illustrations throughout. Children's book with 'old rhymes' and 'music by the earliest masters,' 'engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans;' an example of the 'toy books' that were popular in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Near Fine, in Very Good dust jacket, a few small chips and tears, small dampstain at spine edge.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition 56 pp, 56 ppl,., Illustrations Both decorated paper over board, all edges red reso. yellow; cloth spine: Bouquet with decorated end papers; pasted on verso of ffep is a blank card with gift inscription dated 1878, the year of the first edition. = Books are sod together. Opera with some loss of paper on front cover. Name on ffly, pencil doodling on the next two pages. Both covers well worn, corners shaved and rounded. Inside very good. and bright.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada