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Books in the Biography genre:

Randolph Caldecott: a Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career (1886)

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A biography of the British artist and illustrator for whom the Caldecott Medal is named. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Henry Blackburn
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books (1887)

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A biography of the author of Lob Lie-by-the-Fire and Jackanapes by her sister, including a bibliography. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Horatia K. F. Gatty
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
George Reid

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Mr. Punch’s Victorian Era (1887)

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Reprints the history of the reign of Queen Victoria as seen in the pages of Punch. Issued in three volumes. Read for free online at HathiTrust: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
John Tenniel

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Catalogue of a Loan Collection of the Works of Randolph Caldecott at the Brasenose Club (1888)

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Twenty-four illustrations and a memoir of the artist by George Evans.... View More

Author(s): George Evans
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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A Boy’s Town (1890)

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An account of the author’s early life in Hamilton, Ohio in the 1840’s. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): William Dean Howells
Illustrator(s): Henry François Farny

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Beautiful Joe an Autobiography (1893)

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The autobiography of a dog, who was cruelly abused, then rescued by a loving family. It was the first Canadian book to sell over a million copies.

Author(s): Marshall Saunders
Illustrator(s): Photographs

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The Golden Age (1895)

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A collection of stories about the author’s childhood. The American first edition is smaller format and includes 241 pages. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): None

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The Homes and Haunts of Thomas Carlyle (1895)

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A biography of the author. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Henry C. Shelley
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

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Souvenir of Sir Henry Irving (1895)

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A biography of a famous British actor. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Walter Calvert
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

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Bracebridge Hall (1896)

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An account of an American author’s time in Old England. Read for free online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2.... View More

Author(s): Washington Irving
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

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In the Evening of His Days (1896)

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A biography of William E. Gladstone, the British prime minister in retirement. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Hulda Friederichs
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

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My Village (1896)

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An American artist in France writes of the inhabitants of the small village of Valombre. The essays seem somewhat mean-spirited. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896)

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One of the first attempts in English to tell the whole story of La Pucelle, the Maid of France. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Frank Vincent Du Mond
Photographs

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The Queen and Mr. Punch (1897)

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The reign of Queen Victoria as depicted in editorial cartoons in the pages of Punch. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Toby, M.P.
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
John Leech
Linley Sambourne
John Tenniel
Et al

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Bob Son of Battle (1898)

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Two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep with the son of one caught between. Published in the U.K. under the title Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir. ... View More

Author(s): Alfred Ollivant
Illustrator(s): Marguerite Kirmse

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Dream Days (1898)

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This is the second volume of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood and includes his story The Reluctant Dragon. There were at least three variant bindings of the British first edition. The American first edition was slightly smaller form... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Charles Robinson

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The Golden Age (1899)

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This is a collection of stories and reminiscences of Kenneth Grahame’s childhood. This is the first edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The plates were reproduced in half-tone as the publisher was not happy with the color reproducti... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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A World in a Garden (1899)

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Reminiscences of gardening. Head and tail pieces by Rackham. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): R. Neish
Illustrator(s): Jessie Macgregor
Arthur Rackham
Et al

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The Biography of a Grizzly (1900)

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The biography of a grizzly bear. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Seton Thompson

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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1900)

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This is Volume XXII of the Works. It includes sixteen essays, one of which is a biographical sketch by the author’s nephew. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Samuel Erasmus Moffett
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): W. H. W. Bicknell
Peter Newell
Photographs
C. D. Weldon

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