The Old Ballad of the Babes in the Wood

Book

12 Oct

Written By Fred

Retold by: Kathleen Lines

Publisher: H.Z. Walck, New York

Publication Date: 1972

The 1640 version of the ballad about two young children whose uncle plots to do away with them

This gallery is composed of photo scans of the printed illustrations.

Cover

Two young children wearing peasant clothes holding hands. Bonet,

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Two young children wearing peasant clothes holding hands. Bonet,

Graveyard, Gravestones, Parent's grave

A barrister reading a will. Wig

An old couple in a bed, a barrister talking to them.

Sick old parents dying in a bed, children looking on, nurse, barrister

Four-poster bed, young children, nurse, dying parents.

Sick old parents dying in a bed, children looking on, barrister

Uncle with two children in eighteenth-century dress walking in a small town.

Uncle pays rouges with coins to kill his nephew and niece.

Happy children wave from a horse-drawn carriage, horses, villans, coach, chase

Happy innocent children, brutes with a cudgel.

A dark forest, terrified children, Villanous men fighting

Babes lost in the forest

Brother and sister huddled in the roots of a tree, lost in the wood

Brother and sister huddled in the roots of a tree, lost in the wood

Robin with a leaf in its mouth sees cold children

Courtroom scene, criminal being sentenced by a judge.

Argument between lawyers.

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Fred

The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket

Peter the Wanderer - Dummy