CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH [8 titles]
R. Caldecott’s Picture Books
John Gilpin; The Mad Dog; The Milkmaid; A Frog he would a-wooing go; The Fox jumps over the Parson’s Gate; Come Lasses and Lads; An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize;
The Great Panandrum Himself. London: Frederick Warne and Co, nd [ca 1880]. 1st or early editions, 8 of 16 titles. Six 200 x 240mm, two 230 x 210mm, soft pictorial covers with cream cloth spines. Each with full page colour illustrations and sepia sketches. Some light marks and wear, VG.
2. The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott’s contributions to the ‘Graphic’.
London: George Routledge and Sons 1888. Folio [395 mm] No 672 of an edition of 1250 copies signed by Edmund Evans. 339p, complete with colour plates and sepia toned illustrations throughout, a few spots, contents mainly clean. Bound in quarter cloth, splits along spine, boards intact.