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History - British Genre
Books in the History - British genre:
A Child’s History of England Volume I (1852)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. W. Topham
The Scouring of the White Horse (1859)
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, KG in Upwards of 100 Cartoons (1878)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Et al
The Prince and the Pauper (1882)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
John Harley
L. S. Ipsen
Frank T. Merrill
Scenes from English History (1886)
Author(s):
James E. Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Old Country Life (1890)
A collection of essays on the decline of the English squirearchy. Read for free online at Internet Achive.
Author(s):
S. Baring-Gould
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Francis Masey
William Parkinson
The True Story Book (1893)
True stories of adventure. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Et al
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1895)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1895)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Bob Son of Battle (1898)
Author(s):
Alfred Ollivant
Illustrator(s):
Marguerite Kirmse
Froissart’s Chronicle (1901)
Author(s):
Jean Froissart
Illustrator(s):
None
The Life of a Century: 1800-1900 (1901)
This pictorial review of the nineteenth century appears to have been variously available in a single volume, two- and three-volume issue.
Author(s):
Edwin Hodder
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Mysteries of Police and Crime (1901)
Author(s):
Major Arthur Griffiths
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The Isle of Wight (1905)
A vistor’s guide to the island off the south coast of England. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
George Clinch
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
A book of fairy tales based on real princes and princesses. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Henry IV, Part II (1908)
In this comic masterpiece by Shakespeare (or is it the Earl of Oxford?) Prince Hal comes to reject Falstaff the companion of his youth. Frontis by Rackham is included in the one volume Kingsway Shakespeare.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Red Book of Heroes (1909)
Biographies of people who were truly in earnest. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
A. Wallis Mills
Rewards and Fairies (1910)
Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Frank Craig
The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
A collection of biographies of saints and heroes. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Strange Story Book (1913)
A collection or stories, some of them true, mostly fictitious. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford