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
1876, 1st edition. London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons. Good copy only in the original paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Some tear to back free-end paper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature. Item #391725
Physical description; 56 pp.: illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm. Notes; Date is suggested. 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.
Price: €120.00