The Book

The Baby's Opera, A Book of Old Rhymes in New Dresses,
The Music by the Earliest Masters.
Engraved & printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
First edition, George Routledge & Sons, 1877
Unique among the five-shilling cloth-bound books, 10,000 copies were printed of this first edition. Bound in brown cloth spine & brown, black & cream pictorial boards, color plates & color page decorations by Crane.
The Baby's Opera is a book of English nursery songs.