The Three Jovial Huntsmen (1880) was a popular British picture book illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons in London. The toy book, which is a variant of the folklore song The Three Huntsmen (sometimes called the Three Jolly Huntsmen), was well-received, selling tens of thousands of copies.
The three droll equestrians featured in the book are featured [1] as the logo of the Horn Book Magazine.[2][3][4] In 1914, four colour pictures from the book were reproduced by Frederick Warne & Co as postcards.[5]
The story was also noted for using the word "powlert" which was not defined in either the Oxford English Dictionary or Century Dictionary.[6]
Postcards
editCard no. | Card lines | Picture |
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A3 |
One said it was a boggart, an' |
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A4 |
One said it was a bull-calf, an' |
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B3 | ? | ? |
B4 |
So they hunted, an' they hollo'd, till the |
References
edit- ^ admin (30 November 1999). "The Randolph Caldecott Medal". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Why is it called "The Horn Book"?". The Horn Book, Inc. 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Cech, p. 110
- ^ "The Three Jovial Huntsmen by Randolph Caldecott. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1907". Victorian Era Children's Literature. University of South Florida Library. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ "Randolph Caldecott Postcards". Randolph Caldecott Society UK. 15 March 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Scott, p. 125
Sources
edit- Journals
- Cech, John (1983–1984). "Remembering Caldecott: The Three Jovial Huntsmen and the Art of the Picture Book". The Lion and the Unicorn. 7/8. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 110–119. doi:10.1353/uni.0.0143. ISSN 0147-2593. S2CID 142988557.
- Scott, Mary Augusta (April 1914). "Powlert: An Unexplained Folk-Song Word". Modern Language Notes. 29 (4). Johns Hopkins University Press: 125–126. doi:10.2307/2916084. JSTOR 2916082.
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