Appendix
The following is a list of Caldecott’s Picture Books with the dates of publication. Besides the ordinary shilling books, several collected volumes of his Pictures and Songs, also Pictures collected from the Graphic newspaper, have been issued by the same publishers.
Caldecott’s Picture Books.
| THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT JOHN GILPIN | } | 1878 |
| ELEGY ON A MAD DOG THE BABES IN THE WOOD | } | 1879 |
| THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE | } | 1880 |
| THE QUEEN OF HEARTS THE FARMER’S BOY | } | 1881 |
| THE MILKMAID HEY-DIDDLE-DIDDLE, THE Cat and the Fiddle; and Baby Bunting | } | 1882 |
| THE FOX JUMPS OVER THE Parson’s Gate A FROG HE WOULD A-Wooing Go | } | 1883 |
| COME, LASSES AND LADS RIDE A COCK HORSE TO BANBURY CROSS; and A Farmer went Trotting upon his Grey Mare | } | 1884 |
| MRS. MARY BLAIZE THE GREAT PANJANDRUM HIMSELF | } | 1885 |
Some of
Æsop’s Fables.
With “Modern Instances.”
Shown in designs by R. Caldecott.
A Sketch-Book,
by R. Caldecott.
Reproduced by Edmund Evans the Engraver and Printer.
Breton Folk.
With One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations
by R. Caldecott.
Footnotes:
1 The drawing, A Debating Society, was very well engraved on wood by J. D. Cooper, and appeared in London Society in 1871, v. xx. p. 417; it is now reproduced on a larger scale by a mechanical process of photo-engraving. Experts in drawing for book illustration may be interested to compare results.
2 In a private letter to the writer of this memoir, dated 2nd November, 1876, Caldecott says:—“Pen can never put down how much I owe, in many ways, to T. A.”
3 The Harz Mountains, a Tour in the Toy Country, by Henry Blackburn. London: Sampson Low and Co., 1872.
4 This, and other similar sketches, caused amusement in some circles and offence in others, at Berlin, where it was stated erroneously that the artist had caricatured some well-known personages who came annually to Goslar to drink the waters, and an arrangement to publish a translation of the Harz Mountains into German fell through in consequence.
5 Amongst the young artists in the art department of Harper’s Magazine in 1873, was E. A. Abbey, the well-known illustrator of old English subjects; in later years a great friend and ally of Caldecott.
6 The drawings in the Daily Graphic in New York were all reproduced by photo-lithography, and printed at the lithographic press.
7 It was more than once suggested to Caldecott to paint this scene. It would probably have been attempted had circumstances permitted.
8 The medallion at the head of this letter was designed by Sir Frederick Burton and afterwards redrawn for the Arts Club by E. J. Poynter, R.A.
9 North Italian Folk, by Mrs. Comyns Carr. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878.
10 Breton Folk, by Henry Blackburn, with 170 illustrations by R. Caldecott. London: Sampson Low and Co., 1880.
11 This letter was printed in the Manchester City News, 20 February, 1886.
12 The portrait of Caldecott at the beginning of this volume, is from a photograph taken at Cannes in January, 1879.