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The Baby's Opera [and] The Baby's Bouquet. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters [and] A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes: A Companion to the "Baby's Opera" The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C.
by CRANE, Walter (1845-1915), [EVANS, Edmund, printer]
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons [and] Frederick Warne and Co., no dates [circa 1878 and 1900]. [Nursery Rhymes] FINE COLOUR PRINTING, early printings. Two volumes. Small quarto (19 x 19cm), pp.56; pp.56. Both volumes with fine colour illustrations designed by Crane and printed by Evans, accompanying printed music and words to various classic children's songs. First volume with publisher brown cloth to spine, illustrated brown paper-covered boards and dark green endpapers. All edges brown. Second volume with publisher's brown cloth spine, green and orange illustrated paper-covered boards, and endpapers patterned in green. All edges yellow. Second volume also with the dust-jacket printed in green. First volume extremely heavily worn to edges and binding. Hinges split and roughly re-cased. Clean but well-thumbed. Fair. Second volume very clean internally, with hinges just starting in places. Lower corners and edges of boards heavily rubbed and bumped. Jacket lightly toned with a few minor chips and closed tears. Very good. As a pair, good. First published in 1878 and 1880 respectively, and containing such classics as 'Oranges and Lemons;' 'My Lady's Garden;' 'I Saw Three Ships;' 'Three Blind Mice;' 'Baa! Baa! Black Sheep;' 'Hot Cross Buns;' 'Sur le Pont d'Avignon' and 'London Bridge,' among many others. Warne purchased the rights to print many of Routledge's popular children's books in 1900.
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- The Baby's Opera [and] The Baby's Bouquet. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses, the Music by the Earliest Masters [and] A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes: A Companion to the "Baby's Opera" The Tunes Collected & Arranged by L.C.
- Author
- CRANE, Walter (1845-1915), [EVANS, Edmund, printer]
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- London: George Routledge and Sons [and] Frederick Warne and Co., no dates [circa 1878 and 1900]
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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