Wild Lakeland - Alfred Heaton Cooper
31 illustrations from Wild Lakeland, an A & C Black Popular Colour Series book published in 1922 with a text by Mackenzie MacBride. A few of the illustrations are duplicated from the 1908 English Lakes volume, but most were published in this book for the first time. (One image, 'Mountain gloom, Ullswater' is missing from the scan of the book).
31 illustrations from Wild Lakeland, an A & C Black Popular Colour Series book published in 1922 with a text by Mackenzie MacBride. A few of the illustrations are duplicated from the 1908 English Lakes volume, but most were published in this book for the first time. (One image, 'Mountain gloom, Ullswater' is missing from the scan of the book).
The English Lakes - Alfred Heaton Cooper
75 Illustrations from The English Lakes an A & C Black Popular Colour Series book published in 1908 with a text by William T Palmer. Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929) was a Lancashire man, whose parents were millworkers in Bolton. After spells in Yorkshire, Morocco and Norway, he eventually settled in the Lakes with his Norwegian wife Mathilde. Their son, William Heaton Cooper, became one of the most celebrated British landscape painters of the 20th century. The family maintains an art shop online and in Grasmere. A & C Black reproduced several hundred of Alfred Heaton Cooper's watercolours in books on Wild Lakeland, Norfolk and Suffolk, The Isle of Wight, Ireland, Norway and The Norwegian Fjords.
75 Illustrations from The English Lakes an A & C Black Popular Colour Series book published in 1908 with a text by William T Palmer. Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929) was a Lancashire man, whose parents were millworkers in Bolton. After spells in Yorkshire, Morocco and Norway, he eventually settled in the Lakes with his Norwegian wife Mathilde. Their son, William Heaton Cooper, became one of the most celebrated British landscape painters of the 20th century. The family maintains an art shop online and in Grasmere. A & C Black reproduced several hundred of Alfred Heaton Cooper's watercolours in books on Wild Lakeland, Norfolk and Suffolk, The Isle of Wight, Ireland, Norway and The Norwegian Fjords.
The Manchester Man - Charles Green and Hedley Fitton
Illustrations from MrsG. Linnaeus Banks The Manchester Man - an 1896 edition by Abel Heywood & Son. Charles Green is responsible for the illustrations of the story and Hedley Fitton for the portraits and Manchester scenes. Hedley Fitton (1859-1929) was born in Didsbury, Manchester, and a pupil at the Warrington School of Art. A noted engraver and printmaker, he moved to the south of England in the 1890s and was best known for architectural and street scenes of London, Paris, Edinburgh and Florence. Charles Green (1840-1898) appears to have been a London man. A noted illustrator, he was best known for his illustrations for several volumes in Chapman & Hall's Household series of Dicken's novels. His illustrations for The Manchester Man may have been among his last works.
Mervyn Clitheroe
Illustrations from a 1898 Routledge edition of William Harrison Ainsworth's Mervyn Clitheroe (illustrator not credited)
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The River Duddon - James Thorne
Illustrations from Rambles by Rivers (1844) by James Thorne. James Thorne (1815-1881) was an antiquarian, topographical writer and, in the early years of his life, artist. Rambles by Rivers is illustrated by woodcuts from his own drawings, including 6 atmospheric images of scenes along the River Duddon in the Lake District.
Rush-bearing
Illustrations from Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush (1891).
Albert Woods, A.R.C.A
These 32 paintings of Lancashire scenes grace the pages of F.A. Bruton's Lancashire, published by A. & C. Black in 1921. I know little of Albert Woods except that he was a Preston oil and watercolour artist, who was born in 1877 and died either in 1937 or 1944.
W. G. Collingwood - Thorstein of the Mere
An accomplished artist in his own right, W. G. Collingwood was able to provide his own illustrations for Thorstein of the Mere. These included the 6 full page illustrations below, together with two maps of the Lake District with contemporary place names, and a plan of Peel Island in Coniston Water, where Thorstein and Raineach live for a time as outlawed 'wood-biders'.