NMLP P-025151 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Diverting History of John Gilpin (text by William Cowper)

Randolph Caldecott · George Routledge & Sons, London (colour-printed by Edmund Evans) · 1878

Of the sixteen Caldecott Picture Books, John Gilpin is distinctive as the only one to contain DOUBLE-PAGE colour plates (two of them), alongside full-page colour scenes and monochrome line vignettes

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-025151 for "The Diverting History of John Gilpin (text by William Cowper)" by Randolph Caldecott (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025151, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).