Captain Mayne Reid: The Quadroon with Illustration by WM. HARVEY

 Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was an Irish-American novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson, and set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron.(WIKIPEDIA)

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The following books were illustrated by him:

1. Catharine Parr Traill. Canadian Crusoes. London: Arthur Hall, 1852.
2. Capt. Mayne Reid. The Desert Home. London: David Bogue, 1852.
3. Capt. Mayne Reid. The Boy Hunters. London: David Bogue, 1853.
4. Capt. Mayne Reid. The Young Voyageurs. London: David Bogue, 1854.
5. Catharine Parr Traill. Lady Mary and her Nurse. London: Arthur Hall, 1856.
6. Capt. Mayne Reid. The Young Yägers. London: David Bogue, 1857.

 He is not identical to William Harvey (13 July 1796 – 13 January 1866), who was a British wood-engraver and illustrator.