The Great Panjandrum Himself

The Great Panjandrum Himself is one of sixteen picture books created by the illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The book was published in 1885 by Frederick Warne & Co. It was the last book illustrated by Caldecott, who died the following year.

The text for the book, well known during Caldecott's time, was written and published in 1775 by Samuel Foote. Foote wrote the nonsense poem to test the memory of the actor Charles Macklin, who had claimed he could read any paragraph once through and then recite it verbatim.^[1]

1. Wikisource:The Grand Panjandrum