Illustrated Laminated boards.24pp.Illus. 6 Colour plates with sepia line drawings to all pages. 24pp.Near fine [ Book , no inscsp.fine throughout, fade to spine, all else as new. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

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Title

THE FOX JUMPS OVER THE PARSON'S GATE ( R.CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOKS)

Publisher

NEW ORCHARD EDITIONS, POOLE

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

1850791260

ISBN 13

9781850791263

Binding

Soft cover

Illustrator

R. CALDECOTT

Edition

1st Edition Thus

Condition

Near Fine

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The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate

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.

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