The Complete Collection of PICTURES & SONGS BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT
R. CALDECOTT’S COLLECTION OF PICTURES & SONGS
The Complete Collection OF PICTURES & SONGS BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT
ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY EDMUND EVANS
WITH A PREFACE BY AUSTIN DOBSON
LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS Broadway, Ludgate Hill GLASGOW, AND NEW YORK 1887
This Edition is Limited to 800 Copies.
No. 272
PREFACE.
The first two of the children’s books here reproduced were published in 1878; the last two in 1885, only a few weeks before Mr. Caldecott’s premature death. He had not intended to make any further additions to their number, and the series is consequently complete. Into what new domain his still-creative genius would have wandered,—for he was well on the hither side of the period fixed by tradition for the decline of human invention, and in spite of ill-health, was gifted with a rare buoyancy and elasticity of temperament,—it is idle to conjecture. But his gradual development from the tentative sketches of his early days into the purely individual manner of his latest work, had been unmistakeable enough to justify the belief that even higher triumphs might have been reserved to his ripened powers. Would he not have gained fresh laurels as a designer in some unfamiliar field?—as a modeller of bas-relief touched with his own distinctive quality?—as a delicate and dexterous water-colour artist? None can answer these questions now. But at least he has left us
a definite legacy of accomplished work, for which we can scarcely be too grateful, since it is unique in kind, and certain to be enduring in charm.
Of this legacy, the two volumes of “Old Christmas” and “Bracebridge Hall,” and the present collection of picture-books are surely the most memorable. In decorating the gentle and kindly pages of Goldsmith’s American disciple, Mr. Caldecott seems for the first time to have discovered a fitting outlet of his cherished memories of the country-side where he was bred, and of the picturesque old town where he was born;—for those loving studies of animal life which had delighted him as a boy;—for that feeling for the old-world in costume and accessory which was a native impulse in his talent. No books of this century have been so genially, so loyally, so sympathetically illustrated. And yet these Irving volumes, however excellent, were but the stepping stones to the artist’s more10 signal successes in nursery literature. “John Gilpin” and “The Mad Dog” are illustrated books; but they are illustrated books “with a difference.” Mr. Caldecott found in them his theme, it is true: but it was a theme upon which his pencil played the most
engaging variations. Who, for example, ever before conceived of Madam Blaize as a pawnbroker, because—
Who, again, had penetrated the hidden secret of that corroding jealousy which led the dog to bite the prim and impeccable personage who afterwards so fatally disagreed with him? And where else had the world been shewn the authentic academic presence,—the very “form and pressure,”—of “The Great Panjandrum Himself,” “with the little round button at top;” or imagined the hurly-burly of those headlong, horn-blowing, cheek-bursting and hopelessly futile “Jovial Huntsmen”? Nor were these all, or even a tithe of the sportive surprises, the undreamed disclosures, of these captivating pages. Around and about them the artist has woven the most humourous ingenuities, the most freakish and frolicsome fancies; he has set them in the most inviting framework of town and country; he has enlisted in his service the most blithe and winsome figures of women and children, the most irresistible dogs and horses and birds. The open-air life of England, with all its freshness and breeziness, its pastoral seduction and its picturesque environment, is everywhere
present in his work. He has the art, too, of being elegant without being effeminate, and of being tender without being mawkish. It was said of a great English novelist that his laugh clears the air; it may be said of these light-hearted pictures that their mirth clears not only the air but the imagination. No taint clings to them of morbid affectation or sickly sentiment: they are the genuine pictorial utterances of a manly, happy nature, delighting in beauty, delighting in innocent pleasure, and dowered as few English artists have been with the gifts of refinement and grace.
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R. Caldecott’s PICTURE BOOK
The Babes in the Wood The House that Jack built The Mad Dog John Gilpin
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The House that Jack built.
ONE OF R Caldecott’s Picture books
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS
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The House that Jack Built.
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The Diverting History of JOHN GILPIN
ONE OF R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
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The Diverting History of John Gilpin.
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THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN: Showing how he went farther than he intended, and came safe home again.
WRITTEN BY Wm. COWPER
WITH DRAWINGS BY R. CALDECOTT
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The Mad Dog
ONE OF R. CALDECOTT’S PICTURE BOOKS
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Elegy on a Mad Dog.
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An ELEGY on the DEATH of a MAD DOG.
WRITTEN By Dr. Goldsmith
Pictured By R. CALDECOTT
Sung By Master Bill Primrose
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The BABES in the Wood.
ONE OF R. CALDECOTT’S PICTURE BOOKS
George Routledge & Sons.
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The Babes in the Wood.
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AND HE THAT WAS OF MILDEST MOOD
DID SLAYE THE OTHER THERE
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R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No 2
The Farmer’s Boy SING A SONG for SIX PENCE The 3 Jovial Huntsmen The Queen of Hearts
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The Three Jovial Huntsmen
one of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
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The Three Jovial Huntsmen.
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Sing a Song for Sixpence
ONE OF R. CALDECOTT’S PICTURE BOOKS
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
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Sing a Song for Sixpence.
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The Queen of Hearts
ONE of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
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The Queen of Hearts.
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FARMER’S BOY
one of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
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The Farmer’s Boy.
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R. Caldecott’s Second Collection of Pictures & Songs
George Routledge & Sons
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The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book
by R. Caldecott
Where are you going my Pretty Maid? Hey diddle diddle A Frog he would a-wooing go Baby Bunting The Fox jumps over the Parson’s Gate
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The Milkmaid
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“Where are you going, my Pretty Maid?”
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The Milkmaid.
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The MILKMAID. An Old Song exhibited and explained in many designs by R. Caldecott.
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Hey Diddle Diddle
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Hey Diddle Diddle.
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Baby Bunting.
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A Frog he would a-wooing go.
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A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go.
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The Fox jumps over the Parson’s Gate
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The Fox jumps over the Parson’s Gate.
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The Panjandrum Picture Book.
Containing 5 Subjects
Come lasses and lads, Ride a cock-horse, A Farmer went trotting, Mrs. Mary Blaize, & The Great Panjandrum himself.
George Routledge & Sons
R. Caldecott.
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COME LASSES AND LADS
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Come Lasses and Lads.
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RIDE a-cock Horse to Banbury+
& A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare
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Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross.
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A Farmer went trotting upon his Grey Mare.
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An Elegy on the GLORY of her SEX
Mrs Mary BLAIZE
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An Elegy ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX Mrs. Mary Blaize. BY Dr. OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
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The Great Panjandrum himself
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The Great Panjandrum Himself.
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