"The Sleeping Beauty" by Walter Crane (original) (raw)

[The Princess is tempted to try spinning yarn]

Walter Crane, RWS (1845-1915)

Engraved and printed in colour by Edmund Evans

1898 ed., but originally published by Routledge in 1876

The Sleeping Beauty, p.2

Bluebeard's Picture Book

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