Arthur Rackham  

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"William Wilson" (1839) illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1935

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Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939) was an English book illustrator. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator.

Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork.

His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Notable works

• Sunrise-Land by Berlyn Annie (Jarrold, 1894)
• The Sketch Book by Washington Irving (Putnam, 1895)
• The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch by Shafto Justin Adair Fitzgerald (40 line, 1896)
• Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies, and a Tom Cat by Maggie Browne (pseudonym of Margaret Hamer) (4 colour plates, 19 line, Cassel, London, 1897)
• Evelina by Fanny Burney (Newnes, London, 1898)
• Feats on the Fjord by Harriet Martineau (f/p colour, 11 line, 1899)<ref>Project Gutenberg: Feats on the Fjord.</ref>
• The Greek Heroes by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (4 colour plates, 8 line, 1903)
• Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (51 colour plates, 3 line, William Heinemann, London, 1905)
• Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling (4 colour plates; 1906, Doubleday, Page & Co. (one US ed.))
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie (49 colour plates, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (13 colour plates, 15 line, William Heinemann, London,1907)
• The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby (12 colour, 80 line 1898; reworked edition 23 colour plates, 73 line, J.M. Dent, London, 1907)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, William Heinemann, London, 1908)
• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (colour F/P, 11 line 1899, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 37 line, 1909)
• Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by the Brothers Grimm (95 line, 1900, reworked edition 40 colour plates, 62 line, 1909)
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Colour F/P, 11 line 1900, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 34 line, 1909)
• Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (15 colour plates, 41 line, William Heinemann, London, 1909)
• The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner (34 colour plates, 8 line, William Heinemann, London, 1910)
• Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner (32 colour plates, 8 line, William Heinemann, London, 1911)
• Aesop's Fables by Aesop (13 colour plates, 82 line, William Heinemann, London, 1912)
• Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (44 colour plates, William Heinemann, London, 1913)
• Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes by Charles Perrault (13 colour plates, mostly reprinted from the US monthly St. Nicholas Magazine, 78 line, 1913)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (12 colour plates, William Heinemann, London, 1915)
• The Allies' Fairy Book with an introduction by Edmund Gosse (12 colour plates, 23 line, William Heinemann, London, 1916)
• Little Brother and Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm (13 colour plates, 45 line, 1917)
• The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Alfred W. Pollard (23 colour and monotone plates, 16 line, 1917)
• English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel (16 colour plates, 43 line, 1918)
• The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne (8 colour plates, William Heinemann, London, 1918)
• Some British Ballads (16 colour plates, 23 line, 1918)
• Cinderella by Charles Perrault, ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 60 silhouettes, William Heinemann, London, 1919)
• The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 65 silhouettes, William Heinemann, London, 1920)
• Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens (16 colour plates, 20 line, 1920)
• Snowdrop and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm (20 colour plates, 29 line, 1920)
• Comus by John Milton (22 colour plates, 35 line, 1921)
• A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne (16 colour plates, 21 line, 1922)
• Poor Cecco by Margery Williams (7 colour plates, 12 line, 1925)
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare (20 colour plates, 20 line, William Heinemann, London, 1926)
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (8 colour plates, 32 line, 1928)
• The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (12 colour plates, 23 line, 1929)
• The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton (12 colour plates, 22 line, 1931)
• The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin (4 colour plates, 13 line, T/P 2 colour, 1932)
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (12 colour plates, 43 line, 9 silhouettes 1932)
• Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (4 colour plates, 19 line, E/P, 1933)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning (4 colour plates, 15 line, 1 silhouette, E/P, 1934)
• Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (12 colour plates, 28 line, 1935)
• Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (12 colour plates, 38 line, 1936)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (16 colour plates; posthumous, 1940 US, 1950 UK)