SHE by H. RIDER HAGGARD ILLUSTRATED BY MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN

Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (London 15 December 1862 – 26 December 1931) was a British painter and Royal Academician.

AYESHA

Frontispiece

 

 

 THE CASKET

STEER FOR YOUR LIFE, MAHOMED

THOU ART MY CHOSEN

AND TURNING HALT ROUND THEY ONE AND ALL GRASPED THE HANDLES OF THEIR SPEARS.

UP ABOVE THEM TOWARD HIS BEAUTIFUL PALE FACE.

HELLY  AND BILLALI.

AYESHA UNVEILS.

 

AYESHA GIVES JUDGMENT.

COME!

BEHOLD!

 

STRIKE, AND STRIKE HOME.

THE TEMPLE OF TRUTH

SHE PAUSED, AND THE STRANGE TENDERNESS IN HERVOICE HOVERED ROUND US LIKE MEMORY.

I SAW THE FIRE RUN UP HER FORM.

 

I SWUNG TO AND FRO.

 

 

 

The Witch's Head by H. Rider Haggard with Illustrations by Charles Kerr

 Charles Henry Malcolm Kerr RBA (22 January 1858 – 7 December 1907) (also known as C. H. M. Kerr or Charles Kerr) was a British portrait, genre, landscape painter and illustrator of the late Victorian era perhaps best known for his illustrations for the adventure novels of H. Rider Haggard. 

Born in London, one of six sons and two daughters of Robert Malcolm Kerr (1821–1902), a Judge of the City of London Court, and Maria Susannah Soley Kerr, Charles Kerr was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. On leaving Oxford he studied at the Royal Academy Schools and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1884, including 'Wargrave Church', 'The Oldest Inhabitant', 'An Academy Picture' and numerous portraits.

Kerr also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Society of British Artists and New English Art Club, as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Manchester City Art Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In 1890 he was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.

He provided illustrations for books by H. Rider Haggard (Allan Quatermain 1887; She: A History of Adventure 1888; Allan's Wife & Other Tales 1889; Nada the Lily 1892; The Witch's Head 1893; The Wizard 1896; Black Heart & White Heart & Other Stories 1900), Robert Louis Stevenson (The Wrong Box 1899), Andrew Lang (editor) (The True Story Book 1893) and Arthur Conan Doyle (the Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of the Four 1890). (Wikipedia)

 

 

The book was published 1893

 

 

 

 

SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS by H. RIDER HAGGARD illustrated by ALEC BALL

Alec Ball was a prolific British Illustrator. Contributed illustrations to The Dial, The Strand, Windsor Magazine, The London Magazine, The Graphic, and others. 

 

1913

 Part I of  Smith and the Pharaohs illustrated by Alec Ball was published in THE STRAND MAGAZINE  1912b, Vol.XLIV and Part II in 1913a, Vol.XLV.

 

PART I

Smith looked at it once, twice, thrice, and at the third look he fell in love.

 

With a howl of terror the brave company turned and fled.

The funeral sledge drawn of Oxen, and on it the great rectangular case that contained...

...the outer and the inner coffins, and within them the mummy of some departed majesty.

"The Queen of the mask!" he gasped. The same - the same! By heavens, the very same!"

His heart swelled within him, for here was the hand of that royal lady of his dreams.

Part II.

Once he shouted in the hope of attracting attention.

 

Queen Cleopatra lifted her hands and stood thus for a while.
 

She answered: "I make my obeisance to your Majesty"

He stretched out his arms to clasp her, and lo, she was gone!

Now he was among all that throng of ghosts, which parted to let him...

...pass, looking at him as he went with cold and wondering eyes.

"I ask you, Prince, I ask you all, Royalties of Egypt, whether for such deeds this man should die?"