#english illustrated books

[bookloversofbath]

The Wood-engravings of Robert Gibbings :: Thomas Balston

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Warwick Goble (1912)

[thefugitivesaint]

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), ''Peacock Pie'' by Walter de la Mare, 1941 Source

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

art by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1910s)

[artjiayi]

As the Stitch event is running atm I decided to post again my illustration of Floyd and Stitch. Can’t believe I drew this 10 months ago… time flies.

Btw, this print (among many others) will be available at my next cons. Look, Floyd is taking care of it and he's happy about it.

If I have leftovers, you will be able to purchase my illustrations but I'll let you know about the details later.

[komodokai]

“Actually I encourage the humans to do the actual thwarting.”

[vintage-russia]

"The Russian Story Book" illustrated by Frank C.Papé (1916)

[burningvelvet]

Book covers for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Robert Anning Bell, from Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1902)

[saturn-metaphors]

A nameless feeling and inexpressible pain,

I used to like blue for calmness,

But now it shows me gloominess and my heart in cage.

Saturn.metaphors

@saturn-metaphors

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by W. Heath Robinson (1900)

[thefugitivesaint]

Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972), 'Falcon The Hunter', ''The Russian Story Book'', 1916 Source

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBudgieDay, here is the 1st published image of a Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) for its scientific description by George Shaw (as the “Undulated Parrakeet") in The Naturalist's Miscellany of 1804-5.

(Yes, it appears unnaturally elongated, likely due to Shaw working from a skin rather than a living bird.)

Via BHL

[thebeautifulbook]

CAW! CAW! Or the Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring Time by R.M. (London: Grant & Griffith, 1848) Illustrated by J.B.

A rather sad tale, told in rhyme, of a group of crows who lose some of their family members due to a farmer who decides to rid himself of the birds. The title page of the book only gives the author's initials as R. M., and the illustrator as J.B. We've little information on the author, but the illustrations are most likely the work of the Scottish artist Jemima Blackburn (1823-1909). Jemima, also known as Mrs Hugh Blackburn, was a friend of the Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer who was known for his paintings of animals and who admired Blackburn's talents. She became particularly known for her bird illustrations and in the 1860s published Birds Drawn from Nature which received much praise. Her work was said to be second only to Thomas Bewick's (1753-1828) engravings in A History of British Birds, published in two volumes in 1797 and 1804. — Public Domain Review