R. Caldecott's Picture Book

Containing: The Diverting History of John Gilpin, The House that Jack Built, The Babes in the Wood, and An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd (1920-1930)

Edition: Early Frederick Warne edition (bearing the "Ltd." imprint post 1919).

Binding: Publisher's original light-coloured pictorial cloth, stamped with black line-art illustration and orange colour accents to the front board; spine lettered in orange. Plain white endpapers. Issued without a dust jacket (or dust jacket missing).

Pagination: Separately paginated by individual story blocks. Generously illustrated throughout with full-page colour plates and numerous black-and-white text illustrations by Randolph Caldecott.

Exterior: Very Good. Pictorial front board is remarkably clean, showing only minimal, expected handling marks. The black line work and orange colouration remain bright and unfaded. Minimal shelf wear to corners and spine ends.

Interior: Near Fine. Clean, tight  and crisp text block. Internal pages and illustrations are completely free of typcial heavy finger-soiling, tearing, or brown foxing spots common to children's books of this vintage. Inner hinges are strong, stable and completely uncracked.

Provenance/Markings: None

A beautifully preserved, complete early 20th-century compilation of Caldecott's seminal nursery classics, highly desirable for its exceptional internal condition