Live auction - Lot 411
[Juvenilia]
The Baby's own Aesop. Being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and painted in colours by Edmund Evans.
London, New York, George Routledge, 1887
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Square 12mo.
Publ. pictorial boards, blue cloth spine, blue edges. Very good copy.
1st edition of this charming and rather rare children's book, containing a selection of 56 fables. Complete with errata and addenda slip. Ref. Bibliography of British book illustrators 1860-1900, Crane C.231. Joined: Id. - Slate and Pencil-Vania: being the adventures of Dick on a desert island. Decyphered by Walter Crane. London, Marcus Ward & Co, 1885. 8vo. Publ. pictorial boards (corners sl. rubbed, sm. scratch to lower cover), blue cloth spine, red. edges. Incomplete copy (1 f. missing). (2 vol.)