The Great Panjandrum Himself by Randolph Caldecott - No date

Frederick Warne and Co., London. Hardcover. Good. R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Bright cover Great color illustrations. Ex-Library from DC public library but in good condition. No jacket as issued,

Paperback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

George Routledge and Sons This soft cover is in GOOD ++ CONDITION. Covers are dirty with edge wear, occasional light foxing with owners label on inside cover. Color illustrations bright, BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT, price of one shilling on front cover, with this book title listed last on back page under category of R. Caldecott's Picture Books.

Frederick Warne, undated, c.1900, R.Caldecott's Picture Books series, rear cover shows titles to no.16 (this one),. Good. 1900. Hardcover. hardback, landscape 4to, 22pp, colour illustrations, no inscriptions, pictorial boards, covers soiled and corners slightly bumped, Good condition .

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Paper Covered Boards. Good+/No Jacket. Caldecott, Randolph. Beautifully Illustrated with 6 Pasted Down Colour Plates on Toned Paper and other Sepia Line Drawings. Brown paper Covered Boards with a Colour Pasted down Colour illustration of the Great panjandrum teaching the children. Darker brown Indented border and Lettering. Endpapers illustrated with many Characters. Frontispiece illustrated with a Colour Plate of a young woman in a Garden and title Page illustrated with Dinner Guests. 7 1/2" Tall, 190g. Spine reinforced with cloth tape. Plates in very good condition. No inscriptions. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London : George Routledge & Sons, 1885. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Series: R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Physical description: 22, [2] pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 24 cm. Notes: Publisher's advertisements on back cover. Subjects: Bears; Pies; Weddings; Barbers; Gunpowder; Picture books; Nonsense verses; Nursery rhymes; Children's literature 19th century.

London, George Routledge and Sons, pre 1887.. FIRST EDITION OR EARLY REPRINT pre 1887, 203 x 235 mm, 8 x 9¼ inches, colour illustrated card covers, 22 pages. 6 attractive colour plates, 17 pages of large sepia line illustrations. Bookseller's small pale stamp to background of upper cover, small name in upper margin of same, a little pale foxing to first few pages. A very good copy. First published in 1885, the last toy book in the series of 16. There is no way of telling from the lower cover whether this is a first edition, but the adverts do not list the edition which collects all 16 titles, published in 1887. This nonsense poem was written by the English dramatist Samuel Foote to test the actor Macklin who had boasted he could memorise anything he had heard or read only once. See Osborne I,63. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.