The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott's Contributions to the Graphic

The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott's Contributions to the Graphic

Published by Routledge & Sons, London, 1888. Printed by Edmund Evans. Limited to 1,250 copies of which this is number 43. Signed by the publisher (Routledge) and printer (Evans). Folio, (39 x 31.5 cm). Hardcover. pp 339, [i]. Illustrated in colour and b&w.

CONDITION
A good copy. The binding is firm and the covers are good but with signs of age. Gilt title faded to spine but can still be read. New endpapers have been added at some point in the past. All contents present and pages good throughout with just some light spotting to the first few pages. Overall a good copy.

Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognised by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced 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.

Caldecott also illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and out, and exhibited sculptures and paintings in oil and watercolour in the Royal Academy and galleries.