Warwick Goble

Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 22 January 1943) was an illustrator of children s books. He specialized in Japanese and Indian themes. Goble was born in Dalston, north London, the son of a commercial traveller, and educated and trained at the City of London School and the Westminster School of Art. He worked for a printer specializing in chromolithography and contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette and the Westminster Gazette. In the 1890s, he contributed halftone illustrations to monthly magazines such as Strand Magazine, Pearson s Magazine, and The Boy s Own Paper. In 1893, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy. In 1896, he began illustrating 1898, he was the first to illustrate H. G. Wells s The War of the Worlds, having illustrated it for Pearson s Magazine in 1897. He briefly continued with scientific romance themes.