Harry Rountree - STORIES OF OUR PETS
STORIES OF OUR PETS
Illustrated by Harry Rountree.
Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow.
1937?
A beautiful treasure from Blackie's popular series of one shilling board books.
Harry Rountree (1878 – 26 September 1950) was a prolific illustrator working in England around the turn of the 19/20th centuries. He came from New Zealand in 1901 to London, when he was 23 years old.
Harry Rountree was determined to make his mark on the then-flourishing magazine and book market. For two years he struggled, studied and sold the occasional drawing. However, when the editor of Little Folks magazine gave him a commission to illustrate a story with an animal, he found his feet and suddenly he became quite successful. By 1903 he was illustrating books for the editor of Little Folks, writing and illustrating his own books, and in demand by nearly every publisher in London.
Harry Rountree - STORIES OF OUR PETS
STORIES OF OUR PETS
Illustrated by Harry Rountree.
Published by Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow.
1937?
A beautiful treasure from Blackie's popular series of one shilling board books.
Harry Rountree (1878 – 26 September 1950) was a prolific illustrator working in England around the turn of the 19/20th centuries. He came from New Zealand in 1901 to London, when he was 23 years old.
Harry Rountree was determined to make his mark on the then-flourishing magazine and book market. For two years he struggled, studied and sold the occasional drawing. However, when the editor of Little Folks magazine gave him a commission to illustrate a story with an animal, he found his feet and suddenly he became quite successful. By 1903 he was illustrating books for the editor of Little Folks, writing and illustrating his own books, and in demand by nearly every publisher in London.