Gallery of Images From Caldecott's Toy Books
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Cover of Babes in the Wood
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'The lasses held the stakes - illustration by Randolph Caldecott from Come Lasses and Lads
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In Islington there lived a man/Of whom the world might say/That still a godly race he ran - illustration from Oliver Goldsmith's An Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog
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The spoon runs away with the dish in this Caldecott image that shows movement characteristic of his illustrations.
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