Randolph Caldecott
Male : Illustrator. Died of rheumatic fever in Florida
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Chester
Date of Birth : 1846 Date of Death : 1886 Age : 39
Education : Slade Sch of Art (for a short while)
All Routledge
CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOKS
All issued in card covers
1. The Diverting History of John Gilpin (
William Cowper)
(1878)
2. The House that Jack Built (1878)
3. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (
Oliver Goldsmith)
(1879)
4. The Babes in the Wood (1879)
5. The Threee Jovial Huntsmen (1880)
6. Sing a Song for Sixpence (1880)
7. The Queen of Hearts (1881)
8. The Farmer's Boy (1881)
9. The Milkmaid (1882)
10. Hey Diddle Diddle and Bye Baby Bunting (1882)
11. The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate (1883)
12. A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1883)
13. Come Lasses and Lads (1884)
14. Ride A-Cock Horse to Banbury Cross and A Farmer went Trotting Upon his Grey Mare
(1884)
15. An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize (
Oliver Goldsmith)
(1885)
16. The Great Panjandrum Himself (1885)
PICTURE BOOK COLLECTIONS
Randolph Caldecott's Picture Book (1879)
- contains 1- 4 above
Randolph Caldecott's Picture Book (1881)
- contains 5-8 above
(1881)
(1883)
(1895 Warne)
- contains 1-8 above
The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (1883)
- contains 9-12 above
The Panjandrum Picture Book (1885)
- contains 13-16 above
Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances (1883 Macmillan)
Randolph Caldecott's Second Collection of Pictures & Songs (1885)
(1895 Warne)
- contains 9-16 above
The Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs (Pref by Austin Dobson)
(1887)
- contains 1-16. 800 numbered & signed by Edmund Evans
COLLECTIONS
Sketchbooks
A Sketch-Book of Randolph Caldecott's (1883)
Randolph Caldecott's Sketches (1889 Sampson Low)
Painting Books
Randolph Caldecott's Painting Books (1895 SPCK pb)
Randolph Caldecott's Painting Books (First Series)
(1902 Warne)
Randolph Caledcott's Painting Book : Third Series (c1920's Warne)
Pictures from the 'Graphic'
Randolph Caldecott's 'Graphic'Pictures (1882)
More Graphic Pictures (1886)
Last Graphic Pictures (1888)
Gleaning's from the 'Graphic' (1888)
Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott's Contributions to the 'Graphic'
(1888)
- 1250 numbered & signed copies
Randolph Caldecott's 'Graphic' Pictures : Complete Edition (1891)
- 1250 copies
PICTURES FROM OTHER JOURNALS
Facsimiles of Original Sketches by Caldecott (1887 J Galloway, Manchester)
Sporting Society, or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories (1897 Bellairs)
- 2 vols
Mrs Mary Blaize (nd)
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY CALDECOTT
AESOP : Some of Aesop's Fables (1883 Macmillan)
A Y D : The Owls of Olynn Belfry - A Tale for Children (1885-6 Field & Tuer/Leadenhall Press)
Henry BLACKBURN : The Harz Mountains - A Tour of the Toy Country
(1873 Sampson Low)
- et al
Breton Folk : An Artistic Tour in Britanny (1880 Sampson Low)
(Trans)
Rev Alfred CALDECOTT : Some of Aesop's Fables (1883 Macmillan)
Mrs Alice COMYNS CARR : North Italian Folk : Sketches of Town & Country Life
(1878 Chatto & Windus)
Juliana Horatio EWING : Jackanapes (1883 SPCK)
Daddy Darwin's Dovecote : A Country Tale (1884 SPCK)
Lob Lie-by-the-Fire (1885 SPCK)
Jackanapes (1892 SPCK)
- omnibus vol in above 3 titles
Washington IRVING : Old Christmas (1875 Macmillan)
Bracebridge Hall (1877 Macmillan)
Jean de LA FONTAINE : Fables (1885 Macmillan)
Mrs Frederick LOCKER : What the Blackbird Said - A Story in Four Chirps (1881 Routledge)
Captain MARRYAT : Frank Mildmay, or The Naval Officer (1873 Routledge)
Louise MORGAN : Baron Bruno, or the Unbelieving Philosopher and Other Fairy Stories
(1875 Macmillan)
Hallam TENNYSON : Jack and the Beanstalk in English Hexameters (1886 Macmillan)
READING
Henry Blackburn : Randolph Caldecott - A Personal Memoir (1886 Sampson Low)
Mary G Davis : Randolph Caldecott - An Appreciation (1946 Lippincott US)
(Ed)
Ruari McLean : Reminscences of Edmund Evans (1967 OUP)
Rodney K Engen : Randolph Caldecott - Lord of the Nursery (1976 Oresko Books)
(1988 Bloomsbury)
(Ed)
Michael Hutchins : Pictorially Yours (1976 Warne)
Brian Alderson : Sing a Song for Sixpence : The English Picture Book Tradition
& Randolph Caldecott (1986 CUP)
Maurice Sendak : Caldecott and Co - Notes on Books and Pictures
(1989 Reinhardt Books £13.95)