The Biography of Our Baby

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This vintage (and unused) baby book is filled with verses by Edmund Vance Cooke, popularly known as "the poet laureate of childhood," born on June 5, 1866, in Port Dover, Ontario. What makes the book stand out, however, are the cute and colourful illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876–1960), an American artist and illustrator most noted for her paintings of cherubs, infants and young children. During the early 1900s Gutmann was one of the better-known magazine and book illustrators in the United States. Show more