Horace J Knowles was a British writer and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his illustrations for fairland and fairy tales, as well as biblical illustrations and pieces to accompany poetry.
He worked in black and white, in a style that shows the influence of Art Nouveau as well as that of other Golden Age illustrators.
I couldn’t find many sources of his work online, and a number of the available reproductions are uncorrected scans from pages that have yelklowed, Still, they can be quite beautiful, ranging from delicate landscapes to bold figures.
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