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Title page for 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
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Title
Title page for 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
An unfurled scroll, with the title and further details about the book, is surrounded by various animals and references to artistic endeavours. A palette and two theatre masks hang beside it and the text reads:
"The
Baby's
Own
Aesop
being the fables condensed in rhyme
with portable morals
pictorially pointed
by
Walter Crane
Engraved and printed in colours by
Edmund Evans".
Artist / maker
Crane, Walter
Date
1900
Size
17.8 x 18.8 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Title page from 'Baby's Own Aesop', a book for the nursery created by Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), and first published in 1887.
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