In medieval manuscripts used in Church services and private devotion, a calendar section often preceded the text, identifying the feast days celebrated in the region. See also: calendar year and perpetual calendar. The calendar of forthcoming library events, provided in Library and Book Trade Almanac, includes state, regional, national, and international association meetings. Also, an almanac listing days of the year significant to a particular culture or political entity. To learn about the history of calendars, see Calendars through the Ages. Other examples can be seen at the Web site maintained by the Randolph Caldecott Society (UK).Ī tabular register of the days in a year, usually arranged by month and within each month by week, sometimes indicating the dates of important events such as national and religious holidays.
Click here to see examples of Caldecott's work, courtesy of Mary Mark Ockerbloom. The annual Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration is named in his honor. He died at the age of 40 in Florida after undertaking an ill-fated trip to America for his health. Lodging near The British Museum in the heart of Bloomsbury, Caldecott made many friends in artistic and literary circles and became the most popular Victorian illustrator of children's books. His career as an illustrator got a boost the following year with the publication of Washington Irving's Old Christmas, and beginning in 1874 his illustrations appeared in the periodicals The Graphic and Punch.
After various journals accepted his work, Caldecott went to London in 1872 where he studied at the Slade School with Sir Edward Poynter. His first published drawings appeared in a Manchester newspaper. Born in Chester in northwest England, Randolph Caldecott taught himself to draw as a child and persisted despite his father's wish that he go into banking.
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