NMLP P-035229 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses

Walter Crane · George Routledge and Sons (London) · 1877

The first edition contains eleven full-page color illustrations plus decorative color borders that vary page to page, bound in the publisher's original quarter-cloth over color-printed pictorial boards in various recorded colors (terra cotta, maroon, and brown among them), with no fixed priority established among the variants

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035229 for "The Baby's Opera: A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses" by Walter Crane (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035229, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).