Title Page, Bluebeard's Picture Book
Walter Crane, RWS (1845-1915)
Engraved and printed in colour by Edmund Evans
1898 ed.
As indicated, the book contains two separate stories, each with its own title page, and numbered separately, followed by an alphabet illustrated with well-known rhymes and sayings — also illustrated, but in picture-strips, all in the same inimitable style.
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Image download and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.