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The Three Jovial Huntsmen

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Originally published
  
1878

Illustrator
  
Randolph Caldecott

Author
  
Randolph Caldecott

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The Three Jovial Huntsmen (1880) was a popular British picture book illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans and published by George Routledge & Sons in London. The toy book, which is a variant of the folklore song The Three Huntsmen (sometimes called the Three Jolly Huntsmen), was well-received, selling tens of thousands of copies.

The three droll equestrians featured in the book are featured in the Caldecott Medal and as the logo of the Horn Book Magazine. In 1914, four colour pictures from the book were reproduced by Frederick Warne & Co as postcards.

The story was also noted for using the word "powlert" which was not defined in both the The New English and The Century dictionaries.

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The Three Jovial Huntsmen Wikipedia