Desmarais, Robert J. Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers. University of Alberta Libraries, 2006.
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Edmund Evans
Standard Name: Evans, Edmund
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Kate Greenaway | KG
's illustrations are often considered to be a Victorian appropriation of a romantic aesthetic of childhood; however, contemporary scholars have shifted focus to the social context of her work. For almost the first time... |
| Occupation | Kate Greenaway | By 1873, KG
began receiving offers to illustrate popular books and magazines; she left school to pursue a career as an illustrator, while hoping to become a published author. Her pictures for greetings cards for... |
| Publishing | Juliana Horatia Ewing | In the year before her death JHE
published in volume form Daddy Darwin's Dovecot, with seventeen illustrations by Randolph Caldecott
(reproduced, some of them using new technology, by engraver Edmund Evans
). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Daddy Darwin's Dovecot had begun appearing in Aunt Judy's Magazine just after its change of publisher and design in November 1881. The story, which involves birds of all kinds, was especially suited to Caldecott
... |
| Textual Production | Kate Greenaway | According to Ruari McLean
in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on printer and wood-engraver Edmund Evans
, KG
's first commission was for Diamonds and Toads, a translation from fairy stories by... |
| Textual Production | Kate Greenaway | Mother Goose, or The Old Nursery Rhymes, a work proposed by Edmund Evans
with verses chosen by KG
, was published, mainly to rave reviews. Engen, Rodney, and Kate Greenaway. “Introduction”. Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes, Harry N. Adams, Inc., 1988, pp. 9-21. 18 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Lundin, Anne. Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001. 177 |
| Textual Production | Kate Greenaway | KG
's father (an draftsman and engraver) shared a sample of her work with his acquaintance Edmund Evans
, the leading and the best woodblock colour printer in London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Edmund Evans |
| Textual Production | Kate Greenaway | From this year until 1894 Routledge
published these annual volumes, printed by Edmund Evans
. A number for 1897 was published by J. M. Dent & Co. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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