Several of them are numbered in crayon in a large, old-fashioned hand. On a wet day, perhaps, the Beaumont children must have been set to catalogue their books and surprisingly, as there have been at least four house moves, I seem to still have some of them.
No. 2 Great Deeds of the Great War
Told by Donald A. Mackenzie - with 12 coloured plates etc
Blackie and Son Limited
Inscribed Christmas 1916 to Richard M. Beaumont with love from Uncle Walter & Auntie Edith
No. 5 Perrault's Fairy Tales
Edition by Herbert & Daniel, 21 Maddox Street W1
Translated by S.R. Littlewood, with 12 coloured illustrations by Honour C.Appleton
Inscribed to Richard Melville Beaumont from Mummy & Daddy Dec. 7th 1911
(his second birthday)
The illustrations are rather good
No. 31 Caldecott's Collection of Pictures and Songs
(Title page missing)
Frederick Warne & Co
(includes John Gilpin and others)
No. 46 "Rags" from Cecil Aldin's Happy Family
Some of the un-numbered books:-
The Jumblies, and Other Nonsense Verses, by Edward Lear
with drawings by L.Leslie Brooke
Frederick Warne & Co
Inscribed To Richard With Loving Wishes from Sir Edward & Lady Acton
Masterman Ready, by Captain Marryatt. Inscribed R.M. Beaumont in his own grown-up hand
My Book of Beautiful Legends
Retold by Christine Chaundler and Eric Wood
With Illustrations by A.C. Michael
Cassell and Company Limited
(My father's name, in his own hand)
(he has done this twice - first his full name in pencil
- and started in ink: "Beoum" then closed the page before the ink dried!)
St.George and the scary dragon from "Beautiful Legends"
My father has also "edited" the Contents List by numbering the stories - he made it 55.
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