1887 The Baby's Own Aesop Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

This work is a reworking of Aesop's fables, worked into rhymes for babies and young children. Aesop's fables are a collection of ethical fables, guiding in religious, social, and political themes. Illustrated throughout with numerous pages of coloured illustrations. Edited and illustrated by Walter Crane. Crane was an illustrator, and was the most influential children's book creators of his time. Engraved and printed in colour by Edmund Evans. Evans was a wood-engraver and full-colour printing, and worked to produce many classic children's books. Evans and Crane begun working together in 1863, and the begun collaborating in 1851 to produce two of three toy books for children each year for over ten years.