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Picture Book Genre
Books in the Picture Book genre:
The Tournament, or The Days of Chivalry Revived (1840)
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
A Book of Nonsense (1846)
This first edition was published in two volumes. Each includes thirty-six limericks printed on the rectos only. Save for the volume indication, the covers are the same.
Author(s):
Derry Down Derry
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)
A collection of early illustrations of birds and animals by the master of nonsense. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
John Edward Gray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Punch’s Almanack 1848 (1848)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe (1849)
Humorous drawings and texts explaining Victorian Britain to itself. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Percival Leigh
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Punch’s Almanack 1849 (1849)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Punch’s Almanack 1850 (1850)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (1854)
A comic look at three Englishmen on the continent, in pictures with gently humorous captions. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
A Book of Nonsense (1855)
This second edition was published in one volume. The illustrations were redrawn on the lithographic stones, and the limericks are now lettered in the now-familiar five-line style.
Author(s):
Derry Down Derry
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Merry Pictures by the Comic Hands of H. K. Browne, Richard Doyle, etc. (1857)
Forty-two humorous plates.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Richard Doyle
Et al
A Book of Nonsense (1861)
Enlarged one-volume third edition contains forty-three new limericks, but three have been dropped from the earlier editions. The plates have been engraved on wood and the text is letterpress.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Attractive Picture Book (1865)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
Richard Doyle
Et al
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren (1865)
A well-known nursery rhyme.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Comical Cat (1865)
A humorous poem similar to Old Mother Hubbard.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Farmyard Alphabet (1865)
An alphabet based on familiar farmyard scenes. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The “House that Jack Built” Alphabet (1865)
This version includes outline pictures, opposite the colored plates, to be filled in by the user.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Railroad Alphabet (1865)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Book of Nonsense (1866)
This enlarged one-volume seventeenth edition contains forty-three new limericks, but three have been dropped from the earlier editions. The plates have been engraved on wood and the text is letterpress. This edition was hand colored.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
This is the reissue of this nonsense poem.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane