Caldecott's Picture Books

London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1889. leather_bound. Full dark maroon calf. Teg. Very good. 2 Vols.. Caldecott, Randolph. Unpaginated.23 x 20.5 & 25.5 x 24 cm. Sixteen tales in total. Voluminously illustrated with colored lithographs and black and white illustrations by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. Inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, interior contents clean and fresh. Raised bands, spine panels in gilt arabesques, front covers carry gilt titles of interior contents. Slight nick to one backstrip and some slight fade to covers. Small leather book label lettered in gilt inside front cover of both volumes. (Inventory #: 24537)