Warwick Goble - Artist Info

About Warwick Goble

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    British artist Warwick Goble was born in 1862. Warwick Goble was an illustrator of children's books. He specialised in Japanese and Indian themes. Having studied at the Westminster School of Art by 1893 he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy and in 1896, he began illustrating books. In 1898 he was the first to illustrate H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. In 1909 he became resident gift book illustrator for MacMillan and produced illustrations for publications including, The Water Babies, Green Willow, The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Folk Tales of Bengal, The Fairy Book and The Book of Fairy Poetry. He was employed in the drawing office of the Woolrich Arsenal during the First World War, and volunteered fo...

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