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Randolph Caldecott
(1846 - 1886)
Randolph Caldecott was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognized by the Royal Academy.
Caldecott greatly influenced the 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.
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Bibliography
The Art of Illustration (1894)
Includes the work of many illustrators, including Randolph Caldecott. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Blackburn
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Et al
Artistic Travel, A thousand Miles Towards the Sun (1892)
Includes drawings from Caldecott’s illustrations for Breton Folk. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Blackburn
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Et al
The Babes in the Wood (1879)
Babes in the Wood is a traditional children’s tale first published as a ballad by Thomas Millington in Norwich in 1595. This is R. Caldecott’s Picture Book #4. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Baby Bunting (1882)
This R. Caldecott picture book contains two rhymes. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Baron Bruno, or, The Unbelieving Philosopher and Other Fairy Stories (1875)
Six new fairy tales. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Louisa Morgan
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Bracebridge Hall: Selections from the Sketch Book (1877)
A comic novel of England by an American expatriate, best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Breton Folk: An Artistic Tour in Brittany (1880)
A travel book of northern France. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Blackburn
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Catalogue of a Loan Collection of the Works of Randolph Caldecott at the Brasenose Club (1888)
Twenty-four illustrations and a memoir of the artist by George Evans.
Author(s):
George Evans
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Chimney Corner (1883)
Over forty Lancashire tales, largely in dialect.
Author(s):
Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
A Christmas Interlude (1942)
A collection of Christmas stories, plays, pictures and poems.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 1 (1962)
This collection includes nursery rhymes, folk tales, favorite poems and nearly two dozen pictures books in somewhat condensed form.
Come Lasses and Lads (1884)
A traditional ballad. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecott’s Pictures and Songs (1887)
All the picture books in one volume.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)
A pleasant story of a young orphan who is taken in as a servant, strives to do well through honesty and hard work, and ultimately succeeds, inheriting his master’s dovecot and doves. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Dernières Nouvelles scènes Humoristiques (1887)
A selection of the “Graphic” pictures with captions in French.
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)
This comic masterpiece by Jane Austen’s favorite poet describes what started out as a quiet expedition to the country. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
William Cowper
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (1879)
A comic poem on the subject of man bites dog. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Fables de La Fontaine a Selection (1885)
Seventy-one of La Fontaine’s fables in French with an introduction, notes and vocabulary. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Jean de La Fontaine
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Facsimiles of Original Sketches by Caldecott: Reproduced from Will o’ the Wisp (1887)
Reproductions of sketches that originally appeared in ‘Will o’ the Wisp.’
Author(s):
J. Galloway
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine (1881)
A description of conditions in the English cotton mill towns during the Civil War in America when no cotton reached them because of the Northern blockade. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott