[publisher: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd. & Hunkydora Designs] A collection of 26 individual Randolph Caldecott drawn colour postcards. Each with a colour illustration from one of his 16 colour picture books. Thirteen of the cards show copyright as ‘Originally c1916. C1974.’ on the rear, while the others just ‘c1974 ’ (Each 89 by 139 mm). Of the 26 postcards 4 are duplicates. Postcards unused, No handwriting on back of cards. One of the duplicates has a 50mm crease across top corner, E6 has light 15mm crease across top corner, and another, H3 has a few faint crease marks across top corner, otherwise all in clean bright condition. *** The postcards included are from the book title’s; Hey Diddle Diddle, (2 cards E! & E2); Bye Baby Bunting, (4 cards, E2, (1), E3, (3) including 2 E3 duplicates; The Milk Maid, 4 cards (E5, E6 (2 incl. Dup.), & F5); Ride a Cock Horse (2 cards F1 & F2; A Farmer Went Trotting, (2 cards F3 & F4); A frog he would a-wooing go, 4 cards (G1, G2, H1 & H2); Come lasses and lads, 4 cards, G3, G4, H3, H4); The Fox jumps over the parsons gate, 4 cards, (G5, G6 (2 incl dup.), & H6. *** First produced c1916 these are a reissue published by Frederick Warne & co., and Hunkydory Designs in 1974. The original early c1916 postcards each had a number, in eight groups of six: A1-A6 through to H1-H6.  These cards issued in 1974 by F.Warne were issued without these numbers. I have included the numbers for reference purposes ...
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