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Babys own Aesop (pp. 4-5)
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| Title | Babys own Aesop (pp. 4-5) |
| Author | Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 |
| Publisher | Frederick Warne & Company, Ltd.
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| Publisher Location | England--London
United States--New York--New York |
| Publication Date | 1890 |
| Printer | Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
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| Illustrator | Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints--wood engravings
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| Notes | Illustrated with color printed wood engravings.
Printed on title page: Being fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane, engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
The frontispiece depicts a child reading and surrounded by a cat, fox, geese, cow, donkey, mouse, frog, owl, and crow. The title page depicts various animals drawn from the fables in the book. |
| Contextual Notes | Walter Crane began at aged 14 as an apprentice to W.J. Linton to learn how to draw on wood. His association with Evans began in 1863 and their first collaboration, a toybook, was published in 1865 by Ward, Lock, and Tyler. Then in 1877, George Routledge and Sons published three books in a new format: THE BABY'S OPERA, THE BABY'S BOUQUET and this AESOP title. A new standard of excellence had been established for printing children's books. The usual method of producing these books was as follows: the artist submitted his drawings to Evans, it would be photographed onto the wood block and Evans would engrave the keyblock. He would make as many impressions of the keyblock as the artist needed colors. The colored drawings were then returned to Evans and he would carve a block for each color. It was Crane's belief that "Children, like the ancient Egyptians, appear to see most things in profile, and like definite statement in design. They prefer well defined forms and bright frank color. They don't want to bother about three dimensions. They can accept symbolic representations...." |
| Category | Fables
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0515 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. PN 6071 C5 C7 1890 |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | 56 p.: illustrated; 18 x 18.5 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist 3.1 |
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