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History - British Genre
Books in the History - British genre:
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
The Scottish Chiefs (1921)
A historical novel about William Wallace and the Scots revolt against the English beginning in 1297. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Jane Porter
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Everybody’s Pepys (1926)
Author(s):
Samuel Pepys
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Children of the New Forest (1927)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Bernhard Stafford Good
Through Merrie England (1927)
Daily life in the days of William Shakespeare.
Author(s):
F. L. Stevens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Stream of History (1928)
A history of the world, variously in one and four volumes.
Author(s):
Geoffrey Parsons
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Story of Mr. Punch (1929)
A history of the Punch and Judy show.
Author(s):
Octave Feuillet
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1930)
Author(s):
R. D. Blackmore
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
Henry C. Pitz
The Great Cham (1933)
An even shorter Johnson.
Author(s):
James Boswell
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Men Against the Sea (1934)
Captain William Bligh and eighteen loyal men are cast off in a twenty-three foot open boat by the Bounty mutineers and set out for Coupang in Timor, a journey of more than 3,600 miles.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Pitcairn’s Island (1934)
Following the mutiny on HMS Bounty, Fletcher Christian along with eight of the Bounty’s crew, six Polynesian men and twelve Polynesian women sail for Pitcairn’s Island where they scuttle the Bounty.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
Henry C. Pitz
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark, but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again. This is the Children's Bookshelf edition.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Captain Horatio Hornblower (3 volumes) (1939)
This uniform three volume set includes Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Horatio Hornblower (omnibus) (1939)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Local (1939)
A series of sketches of life in prewar London pubs.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Battle of France (1940)
An account of the BEF in France, ending with the Thirty Days War in June 1940.
Author(s):
André Maurois
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone