Crane, Walter.

The Baby’s Opera – A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses / The Music by the earliest Masters. Engraved & Printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

London / New York, Federick Warne and Co., c. 1877. Octavo. 56 pages. 11 full-page illustrations by Crane. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Pages detached. But all illustrations in very good condition. Cover stronger worn ! Inscribed: “Chrissie Begg – All good wishes for Christmas from Florence Miller”.

Includes for example the following Nursery Rhymes: The Mulberry Bush / Ye Song of Sixpence / Cock Robin & Jenny Wren / Dr.Faustus / Jack & Jill / Hush-a-by Baby / King Cole / King Arthur / Little Jack Horner / The Frog’s Wooing / The Frog and the Crow / etc.

Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child’s nursery motif that the genre of English children’s illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century.
Crane’s work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children’s stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children’s books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. Crane is also remembered for his creation of a number of iconic images associated with the international Socialist movement. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Children’s Literature · Illustrated Books · Nursery Rhymes · Victorian Art · Victorian Children’s Book · Victorian Literature · Walter Crane
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 110079AB

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