Hardcover
1889 · London
by Caldecott, Randolph
London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1889. Hardcover. Orig. boards in a multitude of colors, both front and back. Spines lettered in gilt. Very good. 4 Vols. Caldecott, Randolph. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 37 cm. The complete set of four volumes. 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. All spines lettered in gilt -- three in brown cloth and one in navy. All pictorial front covers with interior contents fresh and clean, very slight rubbing to backstrips head and foot.
(truncated)