Joseph Finnemore was born in Birmingham

Birmingham

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 in 1860 and educated at the Birmingham School of Art

Birmingham School of Art

The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, its Grade I listed building on...

. He was a prolific book and magazine illustrator, who worked particularly for the Religious Tract Society

Religious Tract Society

The Religious Tract Society, founded 1799, 56 Paternoster Row and 65 St. Paul's Chuchyard, was the original name of a major British publisher of Christian literature intended initially for evangelism, and including literature aimed at children, women, and the poor.The RTS is also notable for being...

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He was also a painter in oils whose works include The Proclamation of King Edward VII at St. James' Palace January 24 1901 and On the Lookout, A Stormy Night.http://www.artnet.de/artist/569305/joseph-finnemore.html

Books illustrated by Joseph Finnemore

W. Harrison Ainsworth, Old St. Paul's, Collins Clear-Type Press, London. c.1930

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen, The White Man's Foot, London: Hatchards, 1888

Dora Bee, The Battle By The Lake, Religious Tract Society, n.d.

Alfred Beer, The Heir of Bragwell Hall, London: Religious Tract Society, 1904

Florence Bone, Doctor Ogilvie's Guest, Religious Tract Society, 1919

W. E. Cule

W. E. Cule

William Edward Cule was a British author of children's books and several books for adults on Christian themes. In all, he wrote some thirty books encompassing a number of popular genres - public school stories, adventure yarns, fairy tales, novels and Christian allegories and fable...

, Sir Knight of the Splendid Way, Religious Tract Society, 1926.

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Richardson,...

, Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner as Related By Himself, DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. (Also includes illustrations by G.H. Thompson and Archibald Webb.)

Edward S. Ellis, The Boy Hunters of Kentucky, M.A. Donohue & Co. Chicago. n.d.

Evelyn Everett-Green

Evelyn Everett-Green

Evelyn Ward Everett-Green was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction.She wrote about 350 books: more than 200 under her own name, and others using the...

, Knights of the Road, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York, 1911

John Finnemore, The Animals' Circus: A Book for Children, London: Gale & Polden

Gale & Polden

Gale and Polden was a British printer and publisher. Founded in Brompton, near Chatham, Kent in 1868, the business subsequently moved to Aldershot, where they were based until closure in November 1981 after the company had been bought by media mogul Robert Maxwell.-Early years:The firm of Gale and...

, 1915

Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, The Book of Pirates, London: George G. Harrap, 1916

Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, The Captain of his Soul, London: George Allen, 1902

Agnes Giberne

Agnes Giberne

Agnes Giberne was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people....

, The Girl at the Dower House and Afterward, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London and Edinburgh, 1896

James Glass, Chats over a Pipe: A Tale of Two Brothers (James and William Glass), London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1922

James Frederick Hodgetts, Kormak the Viking, London: Religious Tract Society, 1902

Minnie Harding Kelly, The Golden City, London: Religious Tract Society, 1920

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.-Life and character:...

, Westward Ho! London: Religious Tract Society, 1925

Kirk Munroe

Kirk Munroe

Kirk Munroe was an American writer and conservationist.-Biography:Born Charles Kirk Munroe in a log cab near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Munroe was the son of Charles and Susan Munroe. His youth was spent on the frontier, after which his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he...

, At War with Pontiac or the Totem of the Bear: a Tale of Redcoat and Redskin, Charles Scribners, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1922

M. Harding Kelly, The Golden City, Pembina, U.S.A.

Maude Robinson

Maude Robinson

Maude Robinson was a Quaker writer of short stories and a memoir about growing up on a South Downs farm at Saddlescombe in the 1860s. She was the younger sister of the paediatrician Louis Robinson.-Life and works:...

, Wedded In Prison, Swarthmore Press; Philadelphia : Friends Book Store, 1925

William Gordon Stables

William Gordon Stables

William Gordon Stables MD, CM. RN was a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys.- Life and works :...

, Kidnapped by Cannibals, London; Glasgow & Dublin, 1900 : Blackie & Son, 1899

William Stevens

William Stevens

William Stevens may refer to:* William Stevens , English biographer* William Bacon Stevens , Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania* William A. Stevens , New Jersey Attorney General...

, The Slave in History : His Sorrows and his Emancipation, London: Religious Tract Society, n.d.

Edric Vredenburg (ed), Gems from Walter Scott

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time....

's Poems, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 18--?

E. Vredenburg (ed), William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, The Merry Wives of Windsor,London: Tuck & Sons, 1897

E. H. Walshe, Kingston's Revenge: A Story of Bravery and Single-hearted Endeavour, London: Religious Tract Society n.d.

Mrs Henry Wood, Roland Yorke, London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 19--?

Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss is best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson. It is said that he was inspired by Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children...

, The Swiss Family Robinson, A New Version by E. A. Brayley Hodgetts, London, 1897 : George Newnes, 1896