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Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 – 22 January 1943) was a British illustrator of children's books.
He was educated and trained at the City of London School and the Westminster School of Art. He specialized in
Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 – 22 January 1943) was a British illustrator of children's books.
He was educated and trained at the City of London School and the Westminster School of Art. He specialized in fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical ...
s and exotic scenes from Japan, India and Arabia. He illustrated H.G. Wells' '' The War of the Worlds'' - among his first published illustrations, soon to be followed by a suite for ''The Book of Baal''. He also provided illustrations for magazines, including '' Pearson's Magazine'', illustrating a number of early science-fiction stories, including several by Frederick Merrick White.
Selected works
Books illustrated: *Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914), who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist.
Life and work
He was born at Little Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway on 24 September ...
, ''Lad’s Love'' (Bliss Sands, 1897)
* H. G. Wells, ''The War of The Worlds'' (Heinemann, 1898)
* Mrs. Molesworth
Mary Louisa Molesworth, ''née'' Stewart (29 May 1839 – 20 January 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. Her first novels, for adult readers, ''Lover and Husband'' (1869) ...
, ''The Grim House'' (Nisbet, 1899)
* Alexander van Millingen, ''Constantinople'' (Black, 1906)
* Francis A. Gasquet, ''The Greater Abbeys of England'' (Chatto, 1908)
* Jane Barlow, ''Irish Ways'' (Allen, 1909)
* Charles Kingsley, ''The Water Babies'' (MacMillan, 1909)
* Grace James
Grace Edith Marion James (11 November 1882 – 6 February 1965, in Rome) was an English writer, born in Tokyo. She was both an author of children's literature and a Japanese folklorist. Her ''Japanese Fairy Tales'' (1910) collected and retold st ...
, ''Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales'' (MacMillan, 1910)
* Giambattista Basile, ''Stories from the Pentamerone'' (MacMillan, 1911)
* ''The Modern Reader’s Chaucer'' (MacMillan, 1912)
* Lal Behari Dey, '' Folk-Tales of Bengal'' (MacMillan, 1912)
* Dinah Craik, ''The Fairy Book'' (MacMillan, 1913)
* D. A. MacKenzie, ''Indian Myth and Legend'' (Gresham, 1913)
* Dinah Craik, ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' (OUP, 1914)
* Cornelia Sorabji, ''Indian Tales of The Great Ones'' (1916)
* J. S. Fletcher, ''The Cistercians in Yorkshire'' (SPCK, 1919)
* W. G. Stables, ''Young Peggy McQueen'' (Collins)
* D. Owen, ''The Book of Fairy Poetry'' (Longmans, 1920)
* Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Treasure Island'' (MacMillan, 1923)
* Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Kidnapped'' (MacMillan, 1925)
* Washington Irving, '' Tales of the Alhambra'' (MacMillan, 1926)
* Elinor Whitney Field, '' Tod of the Fens'' (Macmillan, 1928)
Goble contributed to these and other periodical publications.
* ''The Boy's Own Paper''
* ''The Captain
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
'' – for boys
* '' The Illustrated London News''
* ''Little Folks'' – for children
* ''The Minister''
* ''The Pall Mall Gazette''
* ''Pearson’s Magazine''
* ''The Strand Magazine''
* ''The Westminster Gazette''
* '' The Wide World Magazine''
* ''Windsor Magazine
''The Windsor Magazine'' was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939 (537 issues).
The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women".
It was bound as six-monthly ...
''
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