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  • An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott

    Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott ...
    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    This story, 'An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog', was originally published in 1879 as one of Randolph Caldecott's sixteen 'Picture Books'. These were published in pairs each Christmas from 1877 until Caldecott's death in 1886. Randolph Caldecott (1846 – 1886) was one of the most important British illustrators of the Victorian period. He transformed the world of decorated children’s books, with his ... Read more

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  • The House That Jack Built - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott

    Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott ...
    This story, 'The House That Jack Built', was was one of the first two books illustrated by Caldecott and was originally published in 1878 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series. These were published in pairs, every year, from 1878 until his death in 1886. Randolph Caldecott was one of the most important British illustrators of the Victorian period. He transformed the world of decorated ... Read more

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  • 15 Classic Picture Books by Randolph Caldecott (Illustrated)

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    366 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white This collection includes: The Diverting History of John Gilpin, The House that Jack Built, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, The Babes inthe Wood, The Three Jovial Huntsmen, Sing a Song for Sixpence, The Queen of Hearts, the Farmer's Boy, Come Lasses and Lads, Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate, Frog He Would a Wooing Go, Great Panjandrum, Hey ... Read more

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  • The Country Life Omnibus Collection: 47 Captivating Books

    47 Pastoral Tales of Village Life, Nature, Family, and Rural Adventure

    by Renee Richmond Huntley Ormsbee, Thomas H. Ormsbee, Will Levington Comfort, G. J. Whyte-Melville, Edward Eggleston, Berthold Auerbach, S. R. Crockett, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Harriet S. Caswell, Archibald Marshall, Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr, Charles Battell Loomis, M. E. Francis, Arthur Christopher Benson, George Walter Fiske, Randolph Caldecott, Martha Foote Crow, William Howitt, David Grayson, Dallas Lore Sharp, Warren H. Wilson, W. J. Dawson, Tickner Edwardes, Ernest R. Groves, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, George Manville Fenn, Charlotte M. Vaile, Mary Grant Bruce, Edward Payson Roe, William O. Stoddard, Amy Walton, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Amy Brooks, Laura Lee Hope, Johanna Spyri, Elizabeth Gordon, Clara Ingram Judson, Josephine Franklin, Sophie Fox Sea, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, L. T. Meade, Albert Bigelow Paine, Jacob Abbott, William John Hopkins, Howard Roger Garis ...
    The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of ... Read more

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  • The Complete Collection of Pictures and Songs

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    The first two of the children’s books here reproduced were published in 1878; the last two in 1885, only a few weeks before Mr. Caldecott’s premature death. He had not intended to make any further additions to their number, and the series is consequently complete. Into what new domain his still-creative genius would have wandered,—for he was well on the hither side of the period fixed by tradition ... Read more

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  • The Diverting History of John Gilpin - Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Home Safe Again - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott

    by W. Cowper ...
    Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott ...
    This story, ‘The Diverting History Of John Gilpin’, was one of the first two books illustrated by Caldecott and was originally published in 1878. Written by William Cowper (1731 – 1800), the comic ballad tells the tale of a draper named John Gilpin, who rides a runaway horse. Cowper heard the story from Lady Anna Austen at a time of severe depression, and it cheered him up so much that he put it ... Read more

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  • The House that Jack Built

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    Origins: It has been argued that the rhyme is derived from an Aramaic hymn Chad Gadya (lit., "One Young Goat") in Sepher Haggadah, first printed in 1590; but although this is an early cumulative tale that may have inspired the form, the lyrics bear little relationship. It was suggested by James Orchard Halliwell that the reference to the "priest all shaven and shorn" indicates that the English ... Read more

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  • The Babes in the Wood

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    Now ponder well, you parents deare, These wordes which I shall write; A doleful story you shall heare, In time brought forth to light. A gentleman of good account In Norfolke dwelt of late. Who did in honour far surmount Most men of his estate. Sore sicke he was, and like to dye, No helpe his life could save; His wife by him as sicke did lye, And both possest one grave. No love between these two ... Read more

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  • The House That Jack Built

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    It is a cumulative tale that does not tell the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked.Origins:It has been argued that the ... Read more

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  • Babes in the Wood, illustrated

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    Classic picture book for children. 26 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. According to Wikipedia: "Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 12 February 1886) 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 ... Read more

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  • The House That Jack Built

    by Randolph Caldecott ...
    This book is very useful for children and is beneficial in the development of children because the best category of pictures and poetry is included in the books. And the curriculum of these books has been given in a way that helps in the development of children. ... Read more

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  • The Farmers Boy - Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott

    Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott ...
    This children's story, ‘The Farmers Boy ’, was originally published in 1881 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series. These were published in pairs, every year, from 1878 until his death in 1886. Randolph Caldecott was one of the most important British illustrators of the Victorian period. He transformed the world of decorated children’s books, with his delicate yet considered drawings and ... Read more

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