1755-1886. Life and
Perambulations of a Mouse; and
Adventures of a Pin-Cushion.
Dorothy Kilner,
1785. Baron Munchausen’s
Narratives of His Famous Travels
and Campaigns in Russia.
Rudolf Raspe.
1788. Little Thumb
and the Ogre. Illustrated by William
Blake; published by
Dutton.
1790. The Death and
Burial of Cock Robin. Illustrated by Thomas
Bewick. Catnach.
1807. Tales from
Shakespeare. Charles and Mary Lamb. W.J.
Godwin and Co.
William Blake illustrated an edition of these
tales, probably the
original edition.
1813. Reprints of forgotten books, by Andrew Tuer: Dame Wiggins of Lee; The Gaping Wide-Mouthed Waddling Frog: The House that Jack Built. Dame Wiggins of Lee was first printed by A.K. Newman and Co., Minerva Press. Original cuts by Stennet or Sinnet. Reprinted by Allen, 1885, with illustrations added by Kate Greenaway.
1841. King of the
Golden River. John Ruskin. Illustrated
by Richard Doyle, 1884.
1844. Home Treasury, by “Felix Summerley” (Sir Henry Cole). “Felix Summerley” was a reformer in children’s books. He secured the assistance of many of the first artists of his time: Mulready, Cope, Horsley, Redgrave, Webster, all of the Royal Academy, Linnell and his three sons, Townsend, and others. These little books were published by Joseph Cundall and have become celebrated through Thackeray’s mention of them. They aimed to cultivate the affections, fancy, imagination, and taste of children, they were a distinct contrast to the Peter Parley books. They were new books, new combinations of old materials, and reprints, purified but not weakened. Their literature possessed brightness. The books were printed in the best style of the Chiswick Press, with bindings and end papers especially designed. They included these tales: Puck’s Reports to Oberon; Four New Fairy Tales; The Sisters; Golden Locks; Grumble and Cherry; Little Red Riding Hood, with four colored illustrations by Webster; Beauty and the Beast, with four colored illustrations by Horsley; Jack and the Bean-Stalk, with four colored illustrations by Cope; Jack the Giant-Killer, also illustrated by Cope; and The Pleasant History of Reynard, the Fox, with forty of the fifty-seven etchings made by Everdingen, in 1752.
1824-1883. Publications
by Richard Doyle. These included
The Fairy Ring,
1845; Snow White and Rosy Red, 1871;
Jack the Giant-Killer,
1888, etc.
1846. Undine,
by De La Motte Fouque, illustrated by John
Tenniel, published by
James Burns.