The Farmer's Boy. One Of R. Caldecott's Picture Books.

Caldecott, R. Or Ralph Caldecott

ISBN 10: 1850791376 / ISBN 13: 9781850791379

Published by Poole, New Orchard Editions,, 1989

About this Item

Square format, glossy pict. bds, Near Fine+, v. sl. lean, contents fine and tight with lovely colour plates and line drawings by Ralph Caldecott, pp23.

Seller Inventory # 8021

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Farmer's Boy. One Of R. Caldecott's Picture Books.
• Publisher: Poole, New Orchard Editions,
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850791376
• ISBN 13: 9781850791379
• Binding: Hardcover

About this title

Synopsis

One of a series of classic Victorian children's books by the British artist and author. Caldecott was the eponym of the Caldecott Medal and transformed the world of children's books in the Victorian era. This book is a facsimile edition of "one of R. Caldecott's picture books," originally published in the late 1870's.

About the Author

Randolph Caldecott (1846-86) was born in Chester, England, the son of a hatter. While still a child he showed his talent for drawing, modelling and carving, but he started his working life as a bank clerk before going to the Manchester School of Art at the age of twenty-one. He moved to London in search of commissions and produced drawings and cartoons for newspapers and journals before his first success with a set of one hundred and twenty drawings for Washington Irving's ""Old Christmas"" in 1876. It was his idea to produce a series of 'Toy Books' (picture books of a uniform size printed in colour), and this became the subject of the famous collaboration between the artist and the printer/engraver Edmund Evans. The first two - ""The House that Jack Built"" and ""The Diverting History of John Gilpin"" - were published in time for Christmas 1878 and the first printing of 10,000 copies sold out quickly. 'The very essence of all illustration for children's books', said"" The Times"" on Christmas Eve.
During the next seven years, Caldecott produced fourteen more Toy Books, illustrating nursery rhymes and songs with the interpretive skill that makes him such an important figure in the British picturebook tradition. He died, comparatively young, in St. Augustine, Florida.