Front cover of A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderLoving the little mice. Image 3. A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderTable of Contents. Image 6. A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderGirls and Boys. Image 6 (right side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render Saint Paul’s Steeple. Page 13, Image 8 (upper right side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderMy Lady’s Garden. Page 14, Image 9 (upper right side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderI Saw Three Ships. Page 18, Image 11 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderYe Frog and Ye Crow. Page 26, Image 15 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderJack and Jill. Page 25, Image 28 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=renderDance a Baby. Image 29 (upper left side). A Baby’s Opera, a book of old rhymes with new dresses; the music by the earliest masters. Published in 1900. Walter Crane, author. Engraved and printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Fredericke Warne and Company of London and New York, publishers. de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_23f8d6c6-265b-497d-aa5b-e6633ae9d514?view=render
“The Peacock’s Complaint,” illustration from Edmund Evans’ “Baby’s Own Aesop” which was published in London around 1920. Color lithograph. Private collection. Image courtesy the The Bridgeman Art Library. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Crane_-_The_Peacock%27s_Complaint.jpg
