Details

Subject(s)

• Nursery rhymes [Browse]

Author

• Crane, Lucy, 1842-1882 [Browse]

Printer

• Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

• George Routledge and Sons [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed boards [Browse]

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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