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
The Art of Illustration (1894)
Includes the work of many illustrators, including Randolph Caldecott. Read online at archive.org.
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Artistic Travel, A thousand Miles Towards the Sun (1892)
Includes drawings from Caldecott’s illustrations for Breton Folk. Read online at archive.org.
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The Babes in the Wood (1879)
Babes in the Wood is a traditional children’s tale first published as a ballad by Thomas Millington in Norwich in 1595. This is R. Caldecott’s Picture Book #4. Read online at Hathitrust.
Baby Bunting (1882)
This R. Caldecott picture book contains two rhymes. Read online at archive.org.
Baron Bruno, or, The Unbelieving Philosopher and Other Fairy Stories (1875)
Six new fairy tales. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Bracebridge Hall: Selections from the Sketch Book (1877)
A comic novel of England by an American expatriate, best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Read online at archive.org.
Breton Folk: An Artistic Tour in Brittany (1880)
A travel book of northern France. Read online at archive.org.
Catalogue of a Loan Collection of the Works of Randolph Caldecott at the Brasenose Club (1888)
Twenty-four illustrations and a memoir of the artist by George Evans.
The Chimney Corner (1883)
Over forty Lancashire tales, largely in dialect.
A Christmas Interlude (1942)
A collection of Christmas stories, plays, pictures and poems.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 1 (1962)
This collection includes nursery rhymes, folk tales, favorite poems and nearly two dozen pictures books in somewhat condensed form.
Claire Huchet Bishop
Margaret Wise Brown
Wanda Gág
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Louis Slobodkin
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Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Louis Slobodkin
Tasha Tudor
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Come Lasses and Lads (1884)
A traditional ballad. Read online at archive.org.
The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott’s Pictures and Songs (1887)
All the picture books in one volume.
Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)
A pleasant story of a young orphan who is taken in as a servant, strives to do well through honesty and hard work, and ultimately succeeds, inheriting his master’s dovecot and doves. Read online at Hathitrust.
Dernières Nouvelles scènes Humoristiques (1887)
A selection of the “Graphic” pictures with captions in French.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)
This comic masterpiece by Jane Austen’s favorite poet describes what started out as a quiet expedition to the country. Read online at archive.org.
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (1879)
A comic poem on the subject of man bites dog. Read online at archive.org.
Fables de La Fontaine a Selection (1885)
Seventy-one of La Fontaine’s fables in French with an introduction, notes and vocabulary. Read online at Hathitrust.
Facsimiles of Original Sketches by Caldecott: Reproduced from Will o’ the Wisp (1887)
Reproductions of sketches that originally appeared in ‘Will o’ the Wisp.’
Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine (1881)
A description of conditions in the English cotton mill towns during the Civil War in America when no cotton reached them because of the Northern blockade. Read online at archive.org.