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(Description)

Author: Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Title: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire.
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
Language: Text in English.  
Size: 9 " X 7 ".
Pages: xx-296 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the nice frontispiece and the 46 beautiful announced illustrations by Howard Pyle.

The book: Attractive and very good early edition of the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire, by Howard Pyle!

The author & illustrator: Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and 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). After 1900, he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. Scholar Henry C. Pitz later used the term Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied with Pyle. He had a lasting influence on a number of artists who became notable in their own right; N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Thornton Oakley, Allen Tupper True, Stanley Arthur, and numerous others studied under him.