EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

89 Sellers, died unexpectedly. This loss could have been the inspiration of Pyle’s 1895 fantasy novel, ‘The Garden Behind the Moon’, which deals with death, and bears the dedication: “To the little Boy in the Moon Garden This Book is dedicated by His Father.” In 1894, at the age of forty-one, Howard began his teaching career, first at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, Text continues on page 93 FACING PAGE TOP LEFT: " I Am The Daughter of Captain Keitt" , from the story ‘The Ruby of Kishmoor’, Harper's Monthly Magazine , August 1907. FACING PAGE BOTTOM: He Led Jack up to a Man Who Sat upon a Barrel , from ‘Jack Ballister’s Fortunes’, from Century Magazine , 1894. LEFT: At The Gate of the Castle , oil on canvas, 1903. From ‘Piere Vidal, Troubador’, Harper’s Monthly Magazine , December 1903. BOTTOM: In the Prison , oil on canvas, 1897. Interior illustration for Century Magazine , May 1897.