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Randolph Caldecott's Painting book.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1885 Caldecott	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

[30] leaves : ill. (part col.); 21 cm.

Alternative Title

Painting book

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Genre/Form

Note

Pictures by R. Caldecott, for little folks to colour. -- upper wrapper.
"First series" -- upper wrapper.
"Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Ltd., The Raquet Court Press, London, S.E."--lower wrapper, p. [4].
Approximate date based on publisher's advertisement, which lists the Picture books, no. 15, Mrs. Mary Blaize, and no. 16 the Great Panjandrum (first published 1885).
"A Few Practical Directions for Colouring" on front pastedown, and additional publisher's advertisement for Caldecott picture books on rear pastedown.
The first of what Osborne terms "a series of four" painting books (cf. Osborne).
Illustrations: 12 chromoxylographed plates, selected from Caldecott Picture Books originally published ca. 1878-1881 (from John Gilpin to Queen of Hearts), faced with 18 woodcut line-drawings meant to be colored in, most signed "RC."; including the title page, which depicts Caldecott's "Queen of Hearts."

Indexed In (note)

Binding (note)

Call Number

*KH 1885 Caldecott 12-499

OCLC

276566480

Author

Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886.

Title

Randolph Caldecott's Painting book.

Imprint

London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co., [after 1885]

Indexed In:

Osborne Coll., p. 219 (4th series, ca. 1919)

Binding

Bound in color printed pictorial wrappers. NN

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Added Author

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, printer.

Racquet Court Press, printer.

Frederick Warne (Firm), publisher.

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1885 Caldecott 12-499