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Neither Beast nor Bird, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'

Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
Neither Beast nor Bird, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Neither Beast nor Bird, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Neither Beast nor Bird, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
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Item no
40077
Title
Neither Beast nor Bird, illustrated page from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
A collection of animals gather in a swirling diagonal towards a single bat in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. Birds fly above them, and in the top left-hand corner sits the rhyme. It reads:
"Neither Beast nor Bird

A beast he would be, or a bird,
As might suit, thought the bat: but he erred.
When the battle was done,
He found that no one
Would take him for friend at his word.

Between two stools you may come to the ground."
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Date
1900
Size
17.8 x 18.8 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
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