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Louis Rhead
(1857 - 1926)
Louis John Rhead (November 6, 1857 – July 29, 1926) was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler who was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-four.
Bibliography
Aesop’s Fables (1927)
A selection of Aesop’s fables with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color by Frank Schoonover.
Author(s):
Aesop
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1921)
A selection from the Arabian Nights with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color by Frank Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band (1921)
The Robin Hood legend as interpreted by Louis Rhead in words and pictures, with colored illustrations by Frank Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Rhead
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The Deerslayer or The First Warpath (1926)
While written last, in 1841, The Deerslayer is chronologically the first in the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumpo, a European raised among American Indians, is the hero of the series.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The Fairy Book (1922)
Classic fairy tales retold by the author, herself the author of modern fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Dinah Maria Mulock
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Fun and Fantasy (1958)
An anthology of imaginative stories and poems for older readers.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1917)
Classic tales from the Brothers Grimm. Black and white illustrations by Rhead, color by Schoonover. Read online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Gulliver’s Travels (1921)
Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in various strange countries, including those of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians and Houyhnhnms. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales and Wonder Stories (1921)
A selection of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color plates by Frank Schoonover. This scan lacks the Schoonover illlustrations. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)
Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Heidi (1924)
The story of an orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the high alpine pastures.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Kidnapped (1921)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
King Arthur and His Knights (1923)
Another retelling of the story of King Arthur. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Sir James Knowles
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Robinson Crusoe (1921)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
Frederick Alfred Rhead
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The Swiss Family Robinson (1921)
A family is shipwrecked on a tropical island and proceed to make a new life for themselves. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Isabelle de Montolieu
Johann David Wyss
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Tales from Shakespeare (1918)
A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Tom Brown’s School Days (1911)
One of the first English boarding school stories set at Rugby and written by an ‘old boy.’ The black and white illustrations are by Rhead, the color by Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Treasure Island (1915)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Treasure Island (1921)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover