Randolph Caldecott: A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career.

BLACKBURN, Henry. [Woodrow Wilson].

$1,500.00

Item Number: 125249

New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1886.

First American edition of Blackburn’s biography of famed British illustrator Randolph Caldecott; from the library of Woodrow Wilson with his ownership signature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, with one hundred and seventy two illustrations, frontispiece portrait of Caldecott. Signed by Woodrow Wilson on the title page. One of the most influential children’s book illustrators of nineteenth century, British artist Randolph Caldecott published 16 picture books throughout his career, including The House that Jack Built (1878), John Gilpin (1878), The Three Jovial Huntsman (1880), and The Great Panjandrum Himself (1885). The Caldecott Medal, first proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1937, was named in his honor. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.

The 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson grew up in the American South, mainly in Augusta, Georgia, during the Civil War and Reconstruction. After winning the 1913 Presidential election, he introduced a comprehensive program of domestic legislation with four major domestic priorities: the conservation of natural resources, banking reform, tariff reduction, and equal access to raw materials, which would be accomplished in part through the regulation of trusts. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the U.S. declared neutrality as Wilson tried to negotiate a peace between the Allied and Central Powers. Wilson narrowly won re-election in the 1916 United States presidential election, boasting how he kept the nation out of wars in Europe and Mexico but in 1917, asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in response to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare that sank American merchant ships. After the Allied victory in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris where he and the British and French leaders dominated the Paris Peace Conference. There, he successfully advocated for the establishment of a multinational organization, the League of Nations, which was incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles. Scholars have generally ranked Wilson in the upper tier of U.S presidents, although he has been criticized for supporting racial segregation. His liberalism nevertheless lives on as a major factor in American foreign policy, and his vision of ethnic self-determination resonated globally.