The Baby's Opera, A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses...the Music by the Earliest Masters
Walter Crane British
Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans British
Publisher Frederick Warne & Co. British
Not on view
In the second half of the nineteenth century, richly illustrated publications for children called toy books flourished in England. Crane and Evans collaborated for over a decade, producing two to three a year, and became synonymous with the genre. Here, the border illustrations to "Little Bo-Peep" reveal the influence of William Blake.
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