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    The Song of Sixpence Picture Book
    The Song of Sixpence Picture Book
    The Song of Sixpence Picture Book
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    The Song of Sixpence Picture Book

    By Walter Crane

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Song of Sixpence Picture Book
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    Walter Crane

    Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist, book illustrator, and one of the most influential children’s book creators of his generation. Crane produced not only paintings and illustrations for children's books, but also ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. From 1859 to 1862, Crane was apprenticed to wood-engraver William James Linton and had the opportunity to study works by many contemporary artists, including Sir John Tenniel, the illustrator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

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      The Song of Sixpence Picture Book - Walter Crane

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Song of Sixpence, by Walter Crane

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Song of Sixpence

      Picture Book

      Author: Walter Crane

      Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18344]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF SIXPENCE ***

      Produced by Eileen Gormly, Jason Isbell, Christine D. and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      THE SONG OF SIXPENCE

      PICTURE BOOK

      CONTAINING

      SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE

      PRINCESS BELLE ETOILE

      ALPHABET OF OLD FRIENDS

      WALTER

      CRANE'S

      PICTURE

      BOOKS

      LONDON & NEW YORK: JOHN LANE

      THE SONG OF SIXPENCE

      PICTURE BOOK

      CONTAINING SING A

      SONG OF SIXPENCE; PRINCESS

      BELLE ETOILE; AN ALPHABET OF

      OLD FRIENDS: WITH THE ORIGINAL

      COLOURED DESIGNS BY

      WALTER CRANE

      INCLUDING A PREFACE AND

      OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS

      LONDON & NEW YORK JOHN LANE

      THE BODLEY HEAD

      PREFACE

      Whether the Poet undertook to write and SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE for that popular price is not stated in his simple rhyme, but, at all events, we learn that he started with a pocket full, and proceeded to draw on his imagination for all it was worth. What that famous blackbird-pie really cost—except in black-birds—is not disclosed, though the King seemed to show some anxiety about the state of his treasury, as he was discovered in his counting house imediately after the feast. But while the Queen, regardless of expense, regales herself on bread and honey in the parlour, and her Maid-of-honour, or perhaps of-all-work, is engaged at the clothes-line, nothing is said about a princess.

      No doubt there was a princess, and that Princess might have been PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE? Anyway here she is in the same boat—I mean book—and certainly her adventures are romantic

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