Item #53710 Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career. Randolph CALDECOTT, Henry BLACKBURN.
Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career

Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career

London, Sampson Low ... 1886.

Octavo, xvi, 216 pages with 172 illustrations plus a mounted oval Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of the artist (95 × 75 mm).

Black-pictorial olive-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, all edges gilt; cloth a little rubbed at the extremities and lightly marked at the rear; light foxing to the first and last leaves; an excellent copy.

Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) is still 'known to the world chiefly by his "Picture Books". The extracts from letters have a personal charm apart from any literary merit. The majority of the letters, and the sketches which accompanied them, were sent to the author's family' (preface); they are published here for the first time.

Item #53710

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