Baby's Opera: a book of old rhymes with new dresss by Walter Crane

The Baby's Opera: a book of old rhymes with new dresses by Walter Crane. Mcloughlin Bros. No date. 54 pp. Illustrations in color by Walter Crane. Original cloth-backed boards. First American [Pirated] Edition. An unauthorized printing of Crane's popular collection of nursery rhymes set to music. Not Ex-Library, Not Facsimile, Not Print on Demand.  Book is not in good condition. There is wear to the cover edges and heavy scraping on the back cover. The pages, while still being held into the binding are almost completely separated from it. The pages are whole with no tears. The only real child markins I find are some pencil notations on the half-title page and the flyleaf facing it. There is some light smudging mostly from fingerprints and handling almost entirely on the page margins.Nineteenth-century American publisher McLoughlin Brothers pioneered the use of chromolithography in the production of color picture books starting in the 1860s. Until that point, most children’s books were i