Edmund Evans (1826 - 1905)
Edmund Evans (1826 - 1905)
RA Collection: People and Organisations
English wood-engraver and colour printer during the Victorian era. He specialized in full-colour printing, which, in part because of his work, became popular in the mid-19th century. He employed and collaborated with illustrators such as Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway and Richard Doyle to produce what are now considered to be classic children’s books.
Profile
Born: 23 February 1826 in Southwark, London
Died: 21 August 1905
Gender: Male
Works associated with Edmund Evans in the RA Collection
145 results
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Walter Crane
'The Little Cock Sparrow', [1882]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'The Little Disaster', [1882]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'And Papa and Mama took them home the same day', 1876
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'Adjectives tell the kind of Noun', 1876
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'Three little words you often see ...', 1876
Wood-engraving
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J. Byam Shaw
'Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders'
Colour wood-engraving
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J. Byam Shaw
'Q was a Queen who loved her people ...'
Colour wood-engraving
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J. Byam Shaw
Old King Cole's Book of Nursery Rhymes, London, [1901]
Colour wood-engraving
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J. Byam Shaw
'I had a little husband ...'
Colour wood-engraving
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Clarkson Stanfield RA
The Abandoned
Wood engraving
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Attributed to Edmund Evans
View of the old Royal Academy in Pall Mall
Wood-engraving
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Attributed to Edmund Evans
The Royal Academy, Trafalgar Square, 1862
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Curmudgeons' Christmas [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Curmudgeons' Christmas [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Curmudgeons' Christmas [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Curmudgeons' Christmas [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Prince Guerrier wounds the Hind
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Prince Guerrier pursues the Hind in the Wood
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Desiree in her Palace
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Desiree in her Palace
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Appearance of the Crab
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Belle-Etoile breaks the Spell
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Prince Cheri and the Little Green Bird
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Prince Cheri and the Dragon
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Prince Cheri in the Luminous Forest
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Feintese tempts Belle-Etoile
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Corsair rescues the Children
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The King lets the Sword fall
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Fairy of the Desert carries off the King of the Gold Mines
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Combat
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Appearance of the Fairy of the Desert
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Yellow Dwarf rescues the Princess from the Lions
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Magician accosts Aladdin
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Death of the Magician
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
"New Lamps for Old Ones!"
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Aladdin's Procession
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Princess going to the Bath
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Aladdin secures the Lamp
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'The magic sleep ... is o'er'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Prince wakes Beauty
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'The King's son presses on into an inner chamber'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Prince enters the palace
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Prince asks directions
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'And down she falls in death-like sleep'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The Princess learns to spin
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'The giant breaks his neck'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Jack escaping with the golden harp
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'The giant nearly wakened with the barking of a dog'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'Jack seized the hen and ran away'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
The giant's wife lets Jack in
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'Up he goes among the branches, easy as a winding stair'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
Jack sells his cow for beans
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'And the wicked old rascal was dead'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'The obedient child laid her down ... '
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
"Who is there?" ...
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'He knocked at the door ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'But often she lingered and played ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'And she met a great Wolf in the wood ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
"And take to your Granny some cakes ..."
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'... In rushed the brothers with their swords ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
' ... She prayed him for a minute more ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'And Anne looked once, and Anne looked twice ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
"O spare me, spare me! give me time, nor kill me hastily!"
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'At last she could no more refrain, and turned the little key ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'And in her wealth the lady took much happiness ...'
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
"Here are the keys of all my chests ..."
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Strange Adventures of a Dog-Cart [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Strange Adventures of a Dog-Cart [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Strange Adventures of a Dog-Cart [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Strange Adventures of a Dog-Cart [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
How Tankerville Smith took a Country Cottage [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
How Tankerville Smith took a Country Cottage [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
How Tankerville Smith took a Country Cottage [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
How Tankerville Smith took a Country Cottage [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Oakball's Winter in Florence [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
'And at a Fancy Ball in the Palazzo Violini he shone with true British lustre'
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Oakball's Winter in Florence [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Oakball's Winter in Florence [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Legend of Old Chromer [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Legend of Old Chromer [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Graphic,Summer Number 1882: front cover
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Carlyon's Christmas [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Carlyon's Christmas [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Chumley's Holidays
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Our Haymaking [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Our Haymaking [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Graphic,Christmas Number 1880: front cover
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
A Hunting Family
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
The Duchess of Gloucester does penance
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
The murder of the Duke of Suffolk
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
Albemarle [i.e. Aumale] and Fitzwalter exchange defiance
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
The Death of Hotspur
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
Richard II stops the duel between Hereford and Norfolk
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
The Death of Simon de Montfort
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
William the Lion taken prisoner
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
Henry and Stephen confer across the Thames
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
The high priest Coifi profanes the temple of the idols
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
Augustine preaching before King Ethelbert
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
The barge of Edgar manned by eight kings on the Dee
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Vignette illustration
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Head-piece vignette
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Vignette illustration
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Head-piece vignette
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Vignette illustration
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Vignette illustration
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Vignette illustration
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Vignette illustration
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Head-piece vignette
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Title-page vignette
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Graphic,Christmas Number 1878: front cover
Wood-engraving
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After Myles Birket Foster
Head-piece vignette
Wood-engraving
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After James E. Doyle
Edward IV and Lady Elizabeth Grey
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
The Peacock's Complaint, 1887
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
The Fox and the Crane, 1887
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
Cinderella departing for the Ball, [1873]
Wood-engraving
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After Walter Crane
'The Frog seemed to relish his dinner much ...', [1874]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'One Two Buckle my shoe'', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'A B C D', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'E F G', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'H I J', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'Q R S', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'T U V', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'W X Y Z', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'This Little Pig Went To Market', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Walter Crane
'Home', [1873]
Wood-engraving
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Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin
'Hush my dear lie still and slumber', [1896]
Wood-engraving
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Georgie Evelyn Cave Gaskin
'Whatever brawls disturb the street there should be peace at home', [1896]
Wood-engraving
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Francis D. Bedford
The Old Bus Horse
Colour-printed wood-engraving
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Francis D. Bedford
Park-Keeper
Colour-printed wood-engraving
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Francis D. Bedford
Bee-Farmer
Colour-printed wood-engraving
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Francis D. Bedford
Gardener
Colour-printed wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Legend of the Laughing Oak [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Legend of the Laughing Oak [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Legend of the Laughing Oak [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Legend of the Laughing Oak [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
A Lovers' Quarrel [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
A Lovers' Quarrel [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
A Lovers' Quarrel [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Diana Wood's Wedding [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Diana Wood's Wedding [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Diana Wood's Wedding [II]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Diana Wood's Wedding [I]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Carlyon's Christmas [IV]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
Mr. Carlyon's Christmas [III]
Wood-engraving
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After Randolph Caldecott
The Wychdale Steeplechase
Wood-engraving
Associated books
25 results
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Walter Crane
The baby's bouquêt : a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes / arranged & decorated by Walter Crane, cut & printed in colours by Edmund Evans ; the tunes collected and arranged by L.C. [i.e. Lucy Crane] - London & New York: [1882]
13/1177
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Walter Crane
The Blue Beard picture book : containing Blue Beard, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the beanstalk, The Sleeping Beauty / with thirty-two pages of illustrations by Walter Crane ; printed in colours by Edmund Evans. - London (The Broadway, Ludgate) ; New York (416, Broome Street): [1875]
06/3263
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James E. Doyle, (James Edmund),, 1822-1892.
A chronicle of England, B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 / written and illustrated by James E. Doyle ; the designs engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. - London :: 1864.
15/612
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Walter Crane
Aladdin's picture book: containing Aladdin, The yellow Dwarf, Princess Belle-Etoile, The hind in the wood. With twenty-four pages of illustrations by Walter Crane, printed in colours by Edmund Evans. - London; New York: [1876].
06/3289