 | "A Courting Couple": original
Caldecott watercolour on sale as at 24 March 2006: click here (added 24 March 2006); |
| Buying page, with lists of prices achieved
for sold Caldecott items that we know about: click here
(last updated 24 Mar 2006); |
| Catalogues of the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection of Caldecott
Prints & Drawings are now available online. For details, click
here (added 17 Jan 2006); |
| Caldecott Family Tree Online: 200
records from our paper Family Tree are now available online; for
details, click here (last
updated 24 Mar 2006; downloadable GED file first added, 3.6.04;new pages,
22.4.04); |
| Swaps? - new page for those wishing to swap
duplicate Caldecott postcards with one another:
click here (added 1 Dec 2005); |
| Mr Carlyon's Christmas - a seasonal
Caldecott story from The Graphic,
reproduced in full: click here (added 1 Dec 2005); |
| Shocklach (Cheshire) or Frensham (Surrey)?
- new theory about the wedding picture in "The Fox jumps over the
Parson's Gate": click here (amended
31.8.05); |
| Editions: how to tell when a Picture
Book was published: click here (addnl PicBkColln image 9.6.05; updated, 19.10.04; more info added, 31.5 & 19.4.04; with many
pictures, 25.11.03; new page, 13.11.03); |
| Report of Society's London event, May
2005: click here (added 26 May 2005); |
| Picture of dust jacket from a Warne miniature edition of Caldecott's Picture Book No. 3: click here (added 12.4.05); |
| Link to Genes Reunited added:
click here (13.4.05); |
| Everyman re-print of Caldecott Picture Books
on sale again (but now sold out) at PostScript Books: click here (updated
16.2.05); |
| Tributes to Randolph Caldecott,
published soon after his death in 1886: click here
(new page 8.2.05); |
| Link to COPAC, the online catalogue
of 24 University libraries, etc, added to "Links" page: click here (added 31.1.05); |
| "The Dogs' Grand Dinner Party":
An 1869 example (not by Caldecott) of a children's book showing dogs dressed
in humans' evening dress: click here (added
31.1.05); |
| An unusual edition of Blackburn's biography:
added to our "Editions2" page, click here (added 28.1.05); |
| Mrs Juliana Horatia Ewing: a brief page
about this authoress, three of whose books were illustrated by Randolph
Caldecott: click here (new page
29.12.04); |
| Randolph's Grave: in
response to a Search enquiry, we have added the address, a link to a map and
directions to get there. To see these, click here (9.11.04); |
| Our Privacy Policy: click here (page re-located 8.11.04; new page 5.6.04); |
| Antiquarian Book Fairs: free
admission for R C Soc members: click here (2.11.04); |
| St. Bride Printing Institute and
Library, London: info on their R C printing blocks & Edmund
Evans Collection: click here (4.11.04); |
| Caldecott Foundation:
more about their Founder, Leila Rendel (2.11.04);
their website & other contact details updated, click here (31.8.04); |
| Leaflet about the Society,
updated and now in PDF format: click here (27.9.04); |
| Postcards: an alternative, slightly
different, estimate of the date of first issue: click here (20 & 10.9.04); |
| Biography of Randolph
Caldecott by Claudette Hegel: click here (7.9.04); |
| Pictures of our March 2004 meeting, incl.
NEWI Prize entries, Chester Cathedral and Chester Library: click here (Detail of joint winning
entry added 16.8.04; new page, 29.3.04); |
| "Horse Fair in Brittany"
sculpture: illustration added to new page here (added 9.8.2004); |
| Two classic Victorian Greeting Card
pictures: the coaches returning from Diana Wood's Wedding and Mr. Oakball's Stag Party, click here (added 16.6.04;
note that our "christmas.htm" page has been renamed "greeting.htm"); |
| 1977 Exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery;
sculpted cat's rare appearance at it; and Randolph's decorative
panels for Mr Renshaw's house in Buxton, Derbyshire: click here (added
11.6.04); |
| Tiles illustrated by Randolph Caldecott:
click here (new page, 26.5.2004); |
| Sing a Song for Sixpence: two
pictures added to "Nursery Rhymes" page,
click here (added
25.5.04); |
| Punch: nine of Randolph's 13 drawings for this famous British satirical magazine; click
here, here and here. (5 more added on 2 new
pages,
28.4 & 18.3.04; 2 more added, 12.3.04; new page,
27.2.04); |
| National Register of Archives (part of Historical Manuscripts
Commission): records re Randolph, click here (added
7.4.04); |
| Brittany Tour: cancellation: click here. (Updated 31.3.04; New
page added 14.11.03); |
| "Chelsfield
Chronicles" book by Geoffrey Copus: click here (added
29.3.04); |
| Beatrix Potter and the Warnes -
and how this shows which books were published before or after 1917: click here (added 21.11.03); |
| "Copying Caldecott":
link to online version of excellent Caldecott/Beatrix Potter Exhibition held at V&A, London, Jan-Apl 03: for details, click
here or here. (Added
14.11.03); |
| Children's Books History Society: for URL with more info, click here (added 10.10.03); |
| Randolph Caldecott Prize (UK),
and 2003 Prizewinner: click here (added
22.7.03) |
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