R. Caldecott's First and Second Collection of Pictures and Songs. (Two uniform volumes)

R. Caldecott's First and Second Collection of Pictures and Songs. Two uniform volumes with Dust Jackets. Not dated but early to mid 20th century. Both collections with half title and title pages. Each song is separately paginated.’First Collection’. (228 x 205 mm) Pp. [2], 31, [2], 29, [2], 30, [2], 30, [2], 30, [2], 30, [2], 30, [2], 30, [2]. Includes 68 full page colour illustrations and line drawings. ‘Second Collection’. (198 x 230 mm.) Pp. [2], 22, [2], 23, [1], 22, [2], 22, [2], 22, [2], 22, [2], 22, [2], 22, [2]. includes 48 full-page illustrations in colour and line drawings. Some initialed R.C, [Drawn by R.C.; engraved and printed by E. Evans]. Publishers pictorial cloth. Dust jackets with a square ‘laid on’ colour illustration to front, and 15/- net to inside flaps. Dust jackets with sone overall toning, small loss mainly to spine ends, tears to edges and spine ends. The first collection dust jacket has faint naive pencil portrait drawing of someone smoking on the rear, and second collection has three brown tape repairs, one of which is vertically across the rear. The pictorial cloth boards have some faint toning to spine edges, and some fading in areas mainly where dust jackets have some loss. Light toning to endpapers of First Collection, and some blue ink type marks to small area of top page edges, otherwise in very good sound condition. Illustrations clean and bright looking. ** A reprint in two uniform volumes of the first eight and last eight of the 16 "R. Caldecott's picture books" which were originally published in pairs annually from 1878 till his death in 1884. ** The First Collection Containing: The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House that Jack Built; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Sing a Song for Sixpence; The Queen of Hearts; The Farmer's Boy. ** The Second Collection Containing: The Milkmaid; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate; A Frog he Would A-Wooing Go; Come Lasses and Lads; Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross, and A Farmer went Trotting Upon his Grey Mare; Mrs. Mary Blaize (An Elegy on the glory of her sex by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith); The Great Panjandrum Himself.…