Lot 179
Caldecott, Randolph
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
[Aesop] Some of Aesop’s Fables. Macmillan, 1883, 4to, some browning; Blackburn, H. Breton Folk. Boston: Osgood, 1881, small 4to, lacking head of spine; Blackburn, H. Randolph Caldecott. New York: Routledge, 1886, 4to, worn;Caldecott, R. “Graphic” Pictures. Routledge, 1883, oblong folio; A Sketch-Book… George Routledge and Sons, [n.d.]; Caldecott’s Second Collection of Pictures and Songs. Routledge and Sons, [n.d.]; The Babes in the Wood. Warne and Co., [n.d.], 4to, wrappers laid-down over Routledge issue wrappers; A Frog he would a-wooing go. George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.]; Carr, C. North Italian Folk. Chatto and Windus, 1878, 8vo, number 23 of 250 copies coloured by hand, lacking front free endpaper; Davis, M.G. Randolph Caldecott. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1946, 4to, worn dust-jacket; Ewing, J.H. Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [n.d.] (2 copies); Lob Lie-by-the-Fire. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [n.d.] (2 copies); Irving, W. Old Christmas. New York: Pollard & Moss, [n.d.], 4to, contents disbound, spine split; Locker, F. What the Blackbird Said. Routledge, 1881, 4to, front free endpaper loose; Tennyson, H. Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Macmillan, 1886, 4to--together with 27 others, mostly Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd.; together with 14 postcards; all with illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, original bindings, some spotting and browning, some bindings worn with loss, some volumes disbound or with loose leaves. Sold not subject to return (44)