Title Page for 'Baby's Own Aesop'

Category

Library Item

Item no

40039

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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