Howard Pyle - A Record of his Illustrations and Writings - by Morse and Brinckle

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HOWARD PYLE
A Record of His
Illustrations and Writings
Compiled By Willard S. Morse and
Gertrude Brinckle
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Printed by Martino, 2003
(originally published in Wilmington, DE, in 1921)
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Condition : Very Good - Unread.
Hardcover book is in Very Good Condition.
A few specs of smoke dotting on the outside.
But no smell, and overall clean and nice !
(it seems that there was a fire in a warehouse that was a distributor
for Martino publications - very often you find copies of Martino books
with varying degrees of smoke or water staining.)
242 pages,  with many illustrations.
Indexed by Subject and Indexed by Title.
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This book is a
photographic reprint
, done by Martino Publishing.
Martino did a number of very high quality reprints by photographing books and printing
them pretty much exactly as they were originally.  The only drawback is that usually the
illustrations are not quite as high of quality as the originals were, as they are copies.
This style of reprint give you a nice feel of  "originality" that most modern reprints do not
give you.  In my opinion, if you are going to buy a reprinted title - this style is the way to go.
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A very nice catalog of all the works of Howard Pyle.
An excellent checklist for any collector.
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Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911)
was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University). After 1900, he founded his own school of art and illustration, named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The scholar Henry C. Pitz later used the term Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied with Pyle. Some of his more notable students were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Philip R. Goodwin, Thornton Oakley, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tupper True, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Arthur E. Becher, William James Aylward, and Jessie Willcox Smith. Pyle's home and studio in Wilmington, where he taught his students, is still standing and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur. He is also well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating what has become the modern stereotype of pirate dress. He published his first novel, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Magazine and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was adapted as the movie The Black Shield of Falworth (1954).
Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy in 1910 to study mural painting. He died there in 1911 of a sudden kidney infection (Bright's Disease).
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