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The Great Panjandrum himself
R. Caldecott’s picture
Books
Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.]
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The great panjandrum
Himself
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf
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to make
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an apple-pie;
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and at the same time a great she-bear, coming down the street, pops its head into the shop.
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What! no soap?
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So he died,
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and she very imprudently married the Barber:
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and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies,
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and the Garyulies,
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and the great Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top;
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and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,
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till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
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Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books
“The humour of Randolph Caldecott’s drawings is simply irresistible, no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing.”
In square crown 4to, picture covers, with numerous coloured plates.
1 John Gilpin
2 The House that Jack Built
3 The Babes in the Wood
4 The Mad Dog
5 Three Jovial Huntsmen
6 Sing a Song for Sixpence
7 The Queen of Hearts
8 The Farmer’s Boy
9 The Milkmaid
10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting
11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go
12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate
13 Come Lasses and Lads
14 Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, &c.
15 Mrs. Mary Blaize
16 The Great Panjandrum Himself
The above selections are also issued in Four Volumes, square crown 4to, attractive binding, red edges. Each containing four different books, with their Coloured Pictures and innumerable Outline Sketches.
1 R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 1 2 R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 2 3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book 4 The Panjandrum Picture Book
Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 1 containing the first 8 books listed above with their Colour Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches
Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 2 containing the second 8 books listed above with their Colour Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches
: London : Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. : & New York :
The Published Prices of the above Picture Books can be obtained of all Booksellers or from the Illustrated Catalogue of the Publishers.
Engraved and printed by Edmund
Evans, Ltd.,
154 CLERKENWELL road, London,
E.C. 1.
Printed in great Britain]
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