CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH.
R. Caldecott's Picture Book Nr. 4.
Come Lassies and Lads, The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate, Mrs. Mary Blaize & The Great Panjandrum Himself. London and New York, Frederick Warne, no date (c.1890's). Oblong-12mo. 88 pp. Richly illustrated in color and black and white. Pictorial boards. spine lacking. Illustrated endpapers.
¶ 'When children look at Randolph Caldecott's picture books they turn the pages very slowly. Each page tells a story, first in the action, then in the characters and, finally, in the little details that children love to linger over. Their eyes turn occasionally to the words on the opposite page, but only for a moment. Then they go back to the pictures. Often the poem or the nursery rhyme that is illustrated is known to them; but Randolph Caldecott's interpretation of that rhyme is a new and delightful adventure' (Davis, Randolph Caldecott). Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 250.
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