The House that Jack Built

Randolph Caldecott The illustrated nursery rhymes of Randolph Caldecott, the British artist and illustrator who the Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. Caldecott greatly influenced the illustration of children’s book during the nineteenth century. The illustrations for this book are derived fromThe Complete Collection of Pictures & Songsby Randolph Caldecott, published posthumously in 1887. The illustrations were reproduced by engraver Edmund Evans using wood blocks and a technique known aschromoxylography.