‘Karma’ from 'Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales' by Grace James with illustrations by Warwick Goble*
Published by MacMillan & Co, London in 1910 containing 40 tipped-in lithograph plates on dark brown mounts, under captioned tissues.
The plate measures 17 by 12 cms. Good, clean condition as illustrated. (the pictures form part of the description).
* Warwick Goble (1862 – 1943). London born (1862) and trained at both the City of London and Westminster Schools of Art, Goble was another of those artist illustrators whose popularity owed much to the improved printing techniques developed during the 1890s which allowed highly detailed illustrations to be printed directly from original works rather than through engraving. These techniques provided the platform for the golden era of the illustrated gift book which lasted until the First World War. Goble first came to be noticed with his illustrations for H.G. Wells’ ‘War of the Worlds’ published in 1896 but his real breakthrough came with his 32 plates for the ‘Water Babies’ published in 1909 which were highly acclaimed. More commissions followed and Goble’s colourful watercolour illustrations were noted for the orientalist influence which produced enchanting and majestic scenes featuring a rich and colourful palette. Goble continued to illustrate after the war until his retirement in the late 1930’s. A lifelong bachelor, he died in 1943 in Reigate, Surrey.