Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 – 22 January 1943) was an illustrator of children's books. He specialized in Japanese and Indian themes.
Frontispiece
"Is it very far from hence ?” asked
the wolf"
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
A young girl of wonderful beauty lay
asleep on an embroidered bed.
Hop-o'-my-Thumb
Hop-o'-my-thumb . . . knew well enough
how to lead them safe home, as he had taken care to drop the white pebbles he had
in his pocket along all the way he had come.
Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper
The only remnant of her past magnificence
being one of her little glass slippers.
Adventures of John Dietrich
When the cock had now crowed for the
third time, . . .the little men stole down and disappeared.
Beauty
and the Beast
At last she remembered her dream,
rushed to the grassplot, and there saw him lying apparently dead.
Little
One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
And she climbed up and easily broke off
a branch, withits silver leaves and golden fruit, and handed it to the knight.
Jack the Giant-Killer
When the lady came she gave the handkerchief
to the magician.
Tom Thumb
The butterfly took wing, and mounted
into the air with little Tom on his back.
Rumpelstilzchen
Are you not sometimes called Rumpelstilzchen?
Fortunatus
The lady then gave him a purse.
Riquet with the Tuft
Riquet with the Tuft appeared in her
eyes the most elegant young man she had ever seen.
House Island
So at night, when ail were asleep, he
led the trembling Aslog over the snow and ice-fields away to the mountains.
Snow-White and Rose-Red
The compassionate children instantly
seized hold of the little man, held him fast, and struggled so long that the eagle
let his prey go.
Jack and the Bean-Stalk
Jack . . . seized the hen, and ran off
with her, . . .reached the top of the bean-stalk, which he
descended
in safety.
Graciosa and Percinet
As soon as the rods touched her, they
turned into bundles of feathers.
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