Warwick Goble was an illustrator of children's books. He specialized in Japanese and Indian themes.

Goble was born in Dalston

Dalston

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, north London, the son of a commercial traveller

Vendor (supply chain)

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, and educated and trained at the City of London School

City of London School

The City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...

 and the Westminster School of Art

Westminster School of Art

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. He worked for a printer specializing in chromolithography

Chromolithography

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 and contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette

Pall Mall Gazette

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and the Westminster Gazette

Westminster Gazette

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.

In the 1890s, he contributed half-tone illustrations to monthly magazines such as Strand Magazine

Strand Magazine

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, Pearson's Magazine

Pearson's Magazine

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, and The Boy's Own Paper. In 1893, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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. In 1896, he began illustrating books. In 1898, he was the first to illustrate H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

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's The War of the Worlds, having illustrated it for Pearson's Magazine in 1897. He briefly continued with scientific romance

Scientific romance

Scientific romance is a bygone name for what is now commonly known as science fiction. The term is most associated with early British science fiction. The earliest noteworthy use of the term scientific romance is believed to have been by Charles Howard Hinton in his 1886 collection...

 themes.

In 1909, he became resident gift book illustrator for MacMillan

Macmillan Publishers

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 and produced illustrations for The Water Babies

The Water Babies

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, Green Willow, and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Stories from the Pentamerone

Pentamerone

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, Folk Tales of Bengal, The Fairy Book, and The Book of Fairy Poetry. During World War I

World War I

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, he was employed in the drawing office of Woolrich Arsenal, and volunteered for service with the Red Cross in France. He worked occasionally for New York MacMillan

Macmillan Publishers (United States)

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, and produced editions of Treasure Island

Treasure Island

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and Kidnapped

Kidnapped (novel)

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. Goble gradually gave up illustration to pursue sculling

Sculling

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, cycling

Cycling

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, and travelling. He died in his Surrey home in 1943.

Books illustrated include –
Samuel Rutherford Crockett – Lad’s Love (Bliss Sands, 1897)
H. G. Wells – The War of The Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
Mrs. Molesworth – The Grim House (Nisbet, 1899)
Alexander Van Millingen – Constantinople (Black, 1906)
Francis A. Gasquet – The Greater Abbeys of England (Chatto, 1908)
Jane Barlow – Irish Ways (Allen, 1909)
Charles Kingsley – The Water Babies (MacMillan, 1909)
Grace James – Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (MacMillan, 1910)
Giambattista Basile – Stories From The Pentamerone (MacMillan, 1911)
The Modern Reader’s Chaucer (MacMillan, 1912)
L. B. Day – Folk Tales of Bengal (MacMillan, 1912)
Dinah Craik – The Fairy Book (MacMillan, 1913)
D. A. MacKenzie – Indian Myth and Legend (Gresham, 1913)
Dinah Craik – John Halifax, Gentleman (OUP, 1914)
C. Sourabji – Indian Tales of The Great Ones (1916)
J. S. Fletcher – The Cistercians in Yorkshire (SPCK, 1919)
W. G. Stables – Young Peggy McQueen (Collins)
D. Owen – The Book of Fairy Poetry (Longmans, 1920)
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island (MacMillan, 1923)
Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped (MacMillan, 1925)
Washington Irving – The Alhambra (MacMillan, 1926)
Elinor Whitney – Tod of The Fens
Contributions include Boy’s Own Paper, Captain, Illustrated London News, Little Folks, The Minister, Pall Mall Gazette, Pearson’s Magazine, Strand Magazine, Westminster Gazette, Windsor Magazine, World Wide Magazine.