Randolph Caldecott
(1846 - 1886)
Randolph Caldecott was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognized by the Royal Academy.
Caldecott greatly influenced the illustration of children’s books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years.
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Bibliography
Some of Aesop’s Fables with Modern Instances (1883)
Twenty fables with illustrations of the original fable and a cartoon of a modern application. Read online at archive.org.
Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington, Esq. and Other Stories (1899)
A collection of quintessential British sporting stories. Read online at Hathitrust.
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Sporting Society or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories (1897)
A two-volume work with some of Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations in each volume. Read online at HathiTrust: Volume 1 and Volume 2.
The Three Jovial Huntsmen (1880)
The comical, poetical adventures of three hunters with their horns. Read online at archive.org.
Tufts of Heather Volume 1 (1881)
A collection of essays, chiefly about the author’s native Lancashire. Read online at Hathitrust.
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Tufts of Heather Volume 2 (1881)
A collection of essays, chiefly about the author’s native Lancashire. Read online at Hathitrust.
George Sheffield
Tufts of Heather Volume 2 (1882)
A collection of essays, chiefly about the author’s native Lancashire. A new edition, this includes a different image on the title page.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1883)
A mixture of comic novel and Job, this edition has a frontispiece by R. Caldecott.
What the Blackbird Said (1881)
A combination of the natural history of birds and moral instruction. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Yours Pictorially: Illustrated Letters of Randolph Caldecott (1976)
A collection of illustrated letters by the author of the Picture Books.