The Baby's Own Aesop being the Fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane.
by CRANE, Walter (illustrates)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Routledge, London., 1887. First edition. Square octavo. 56 pages. Illustrations by Walter Crane engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Errata and Addenda slip tipped in. Cloth-backed pictorial boards.The only foxing is on the Errata and Addenda slip. Very small ink ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Cover edges rubbed. Very good. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CRANEWAL012593
- Title
- The Baby's Own Aesop being the Fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane.
- Author
- CRANE, Walter (illustrates)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge, London.
- Date Published
- 1887
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