The baby's bouqûet : a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes ; a companion to the baby's opera / arranged & decorated by Walter Crane ; cut and printed in colours by Edmund Evans ; the tunes collected & arranged by L[ucy] C[rane]

Author
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • German
  • French
Published/​Created
London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons, [1878]
Description
56 p. : col. ill. ; 18 x 19 cm.

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 21153 Eng 19 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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    Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 151322 Eng 19 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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          Notes
          • Date from Massé and Spencer.
          • T.p. verso device with initials "EE" and "LC" (i.e. Edmund Evans and Lucy Crane).
          • Illustrations: Preliminaries in green, t.p. in green and rose, color frontis. and 10 full-page colored wood engravings throughout the text, all signed with Crane's "WC" crane glyph, pictorial frames for song scores in rose, yellow, and blue.
          • Princeton copy 1 GAX copy: Inscribed: "Beulah from Papa, Christmas, 1878"--Half t.p.
          • Princeton copy 2 Cotsen c. 1: Inscribed "Madoline P. Horton, Jany 1: 1879"--Half t.p.
          • Princeton copy 3 Cotsen c. 2 : Blue Cotsen family bookplate, dated "11 '67," pasted down to front free endpaper.
          • Princeton copy 3 Cotsen c. 2 & c. 3: With original frontis. tissue guard.
          • Princeton copy 4 Cotsen c. 2 & c. 3: With original frontis. tissue guard.
          • Princeton copy 4 Cotsen copy: In gilt-stamped blue quarter morocco slipcase with Baby's Opera and Baby's Own Aesop.
          Binding note
          Pub. paper bds., printed with pictorial design in black, white and gold, with tan cloth spine strip; all edges stained yellow; patterned blue and white endpapers.
          Language note
          28 children's "rhymes and tunes" with English lyrics, 5 with German, and 4 with French.
          Source acquisition
          Princeton copy 1 Gift of Mrs. Philip T. White, 1971.
          References
          • Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 31
          • Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 203
          Other title(s)
          Ye baby's bouquet.
          OCLC
          2560155
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