The baby's opera : a book of old rhymes, with new dresses / by Walter Crane ; engraved & printed in colours by Edmund Evans ; the music by the earliest masters
1877, Edition Unstated. London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons. Very good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #438092
Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 56 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm. Notes; Walter Crane's sister, Lucy Crane, was responsible for the selection and arrangement of the musical accompaniments to the nursery rhymes in this title. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Title page printed within colour illustrated and decorative border. Contents; Girls and boys -- The mulberry bush -- Oranges and lemons -- St. Paul's steeple -- My lady's garden -- Natural history -- Lavender's blue -- I saw three ships -- Ding dong bell -- Puss at court -- Three blind mice -- Dickory dock -- Ye frog's wooing -- Ye frog and ye crow -- Mrs Bond -- Xmas day in ye morning -- Little Jack Horner -- King Arthur -- Ye jolly miller -- Ye song of sixpence -- Bo-Peep -- Baa! baa! black sheep -- Tom, the piper's son -- There was a lady loved a swine -- Over the hills & far away -- Cock Robin & Jenny Wren -- I had a little nut tree -- Dr Faustus -- Three children -- My pretty maid -- The ploughboy in luck -- Warm hands -- Jack & Jill -- Dance a baby -- Hush-a-by baby -- King Cole. Subjects; Mother Goose. Children's songs ; Pictorial works. Nursery rhymes, English. Songs with piano. Songs. Nursery rhymes.
Price: €65.00