EVANS, Edmund. The Baby's Opera. A Book of Old Rhymes with new Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters.
Original woodcut plates from the first edition with original board cover, as illustrated by Walter Crane, mounted as a triptych, as published by George Routledge and Sons, London [1876]. 180 x 190 mm.
Illustrated score was written by Lucy Crane the sister of Walter Crane. The board cover is the illustration for 'Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle', as well as the classic nursey rhymes, 'Three Blind Mice' and 'Hush-a-by Baby'.
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