British illustrator (1862–1943)
An illustration forThe Water Babies
An illustration forBeauty and the Beast
Shantanu meets GoddessGanga, 1913Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 – 22 January 1943) was a British illustrator.
He was educated and trained at theCity of London School and theWestminster School of Art. He specialized infairy tales and exotic scenes from Japan, India and Arabia. He illustratedH. G. Wells'The War of the Worlds – among his first published illustrations, soon to be followed by a suite forThe Book of Baal. He also provided illustrations for magazines, includingPearson's Magazine, illustrating a number of earlyscience-fiction stories, including several byFrederick Merrick White.[1][2]
Books illustrated:
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett,Lad's Love (Bliss Sands, 1897)
- H. G. Wells,The War of The Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- Mrs. Molesworth,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,Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (MacMillan, 1910)
- Giambattista Basile,Stories from thePentamerone (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.
- ^Dalby, Richard (1991),The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, Gallery Books, pp. 92–3,ISBN 0-8317-3910-X
- ^Vadeboncoeur, Jim Jr. (1999),Warwick Gable Biography, archived from the original on 16 January 2000, retrieved11 August 2010
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