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

9 accepted by James Henderson for inclusion in his magazine, Young Folks , and was published as a serial in 1881. This story became the most famous of all pirate tales, as well as the most influential, when it was later reprinted under the title, ‘Treasure Island’. In the early years of the twentieth century, after the demise of the Penny Dreadfuls, the thirst for pirate stories became even more marked. Aldine’s Red Rover Library (subtitled Tales of the Old Sea-Tigers ) published such stories as ‘Blackbeard the Terror of the Sea’, while Newnes’ Treasure Trove Library carried stories of that other legendary real-life pirate, Captain Kidd. In the 1920s and ’30s, Aldine’s Boy’s Own Library featured stories by Samuel Walkey such as ‘The Pirates of El Dorado’ and ‘The Rovers of Black Island’. These stories were, in fact, reprints from serials that had appeared earlier in the boys’ paper, Chums. From very early on in its run Chums, launched by Cassell & Company in 1892, adopted the pirate story as its own. In 1894 it serialised Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’ and was soon attracting large numbers of readers with quality sea yarns that conveyed all the colour, atmosphere and excitement found in ABOVE: Fallen Among Thieves by S. H. Sime for Boys’ Own Annual , 1893. FACING PAGE: The Doomed Fleet by Patrick Nicolle from The Modern Book of Pirates , 1939.