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The Babes in the Wood / One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books

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With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel. But when the sitter’s smashed-up car is found at the bottom of a local quarry–occupied by a battered corpse–the investigation takes ...

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Printed in Great Britain

THE BABES IN THE WOOD

The BABES IN THE WOOD.

Randolph Caldecott’s

Picture Books

“The humour of Randolph Caldecott’s drawings is simply irresistible, no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing.”

In square crown 4to, picture covers, with numerous coloured plates.

1 John Gilpin 2 The House that Jack Built 3 The Babes in the Wood 4 The Mad Dog 5 Three Jovial Huntsmen 6 Sing a Song for Sixpence 7 The Queen of Hearts 8 The Farmer’s Boy 9 The Milkmaid 10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting 11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go 12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate 13 Come Lasses and Lads 14 Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, &c. 15 Mrs. Mary Blaize 16 The Great Panjandrum Himself

The above selections are also issued in Four Volumes, square crown 4to, attractive binding, red edges. Each containing four different books, with their Coloured Pictures and innumerable Outline Sketches.

1 R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 1 2 R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 2 3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book 4 The Panjandrum Picture Book

And also

In Two Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth gilt, each containing eight different books, with their Coloured Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches.

R. Caldecott’s Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 1

R. Caldecott’s Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 2

Miniature Editions, size 5½ by 4½ Art Boards, flat back.

TWO VOLUMES

ENTITLED

R. CALDECOTT’S PICTURE BOOKS Nos. 1 and 2.

Each containing coloured plates and numerous Outline Sketches in the text.

Crown 4to, picture covers.

Randolph Caldecott’s Painting Books. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Each with Outline Pictures to Paint, and Coloured Examples.

Oblong 4to, cloth.

A Sketch Book of R. Caldecott’s.

Containing numerous sketches in Colour and black and white

Frederick Warne & Co... Ltd LONDON. & NEW YORK.

The Published Prices of the above Picture Books can be obtained of all Booksellers or from the Illustrated Catalogue of the Publisher

PRINTED AND COPYRIGHTED BY EDMUND EVANS, LTD., ROSE PLACE, GLOBE ROAD, LONDON, E.1.

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