RANDOLPH CALDECOTT:

BLACKBURN, HENRY. CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH.

£85.00

Publisher

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street.

Place

London

Date

1886

Synopsis

A personal memoir of his early art career. with one hundred and seventy-two illustrations.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. xvi + 216 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with black block on front board. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Minor wear to extremities and some foxing of flyleaves and adjoining pages, including preliminaries; otherwise a very good bright clean copy. Booksellers label of Bunyard, Maidstone. Illustrated by mounted albumen photographic portrait frontispiece, protected by tissue guard, and by numerous text figures of Caldecott's sketches throughout, including whole page. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes. An account, up to 1880, of the career and work of Randolph Caldecott (1846-86), artist and book and magazine illustrator. It includes some of his unpublished work and an appendix with details of some of his early titles. With Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway, Caldecott was one of the three great Victorian children's book illustrators. Memoir by Henry Blackburn (1830-97), author and art critic. A fine bright copy.

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