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The Three Jovial Huntsmen

A popular British children's picture book by Randolph Caldecott

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 ^[1] as the logo of the Horn Book Magazine.^[2]^[3]^[4] In 1914, four colour pictures from the book were reproduced by Frederick Warne & Co as postcards.^[5]

The story was also noted for using the word "powlert" which was not defined in either The New English or The Century dictionaries.^[6]

Postcards

The Three Jovial Huntsmen postcards
Card no.	Card lines	Picture
A3	One said it was a boggart, an' another he say "Nay; It's just a ge'man-farmer, that has gone an' lost his way"
A4	One said it was a bull-calf, an' another he said "Nay; It's just a painted jackass, that has never learnt to bray."
B3	?	?
B4	So they hunted, an' they hollo'd, till the setting of the sun; An' they'd nought to bring away at last, when th' huntin'-day was done.

References

^ admin (30 November 1999). "The Randolph Caldecott Medal". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Retrieved 2 March 2020.
^ "Why is it called "The Horn Book"?". The Horn Book, Inc. 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
^ Cech, p. 110
^ "The Three Jovial Huntsmen by Randolph Caldecott. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1907". Victorian Era Children's Literature. University of South Florida Library. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
^ "Randolph Caldecott Postcards". Randolph Caldecott Society UK. 15 March 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
^ Scott, p. 125

Sources

Journals

Cech, John (1983–1984). "Remembering Caldecott: The Three Jovial Huntsmen and the Art of the Picture Book". The Lion and the Unicorn. 7/8. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 110–119. doi:10.1353/uni.0.0143. ISSN 0147-2593. S2CID 142988557.
Scott, Mary Augusta (April 1914). "Powlert: An Unexplained Folk-Song Word". Modern Language Notes. 29 (4). Johns Hopkins University Press: 125–126. doi:10.2307/2916084. JSTOR 2916082.