THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

Pyle, Howard

ISBN 10: 0001956671 / ISBN 13: 9780001956674

Published by Collins, London, 1986

About this Item

192 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. Dj art by Stephen Lavis; illustrated with line drawings by Gareth Floyd. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 225299

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
• Publisher: Collins, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0001956671
• ISBN 13: 9780001956674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Stephen Lavis; Gareth Floyd
• Edition: First Printing - First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Adventure
  • Robin Hood

About this title

Synopsis

Classic telling of the timeless story of Robin Hood and his merry Men including, Little John, Will Scarlet, Friar Tuck and Maid Marion. Robin heads his army of outlaws in a fight againest the unjust Prince John.

Text abridged by Rosalie Packard, illustrated by Gareth Floyd.

About the Author

Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration called the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term the Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz (later called the Brandywine School). Some of his more famous students were Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Allen Tupper True, and Jessie Willcox Smith. His 1883 classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print to this day, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur that cemented his reputation. He wrote an original work, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth. Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy to study mural painting in 1910, and died there in 1911 of sudden kidney infection (Bright's Disease).