During the Golden Age of Illustration (1880 – 1940), artist and illustrator Frank E. Schoonover illustrated over 140 books which included children’s classics, adventure books, non-fiction and poetry. Many of the illustrations in these books still exist today in museums and private collections. The following is a complete listing of the books which he illustrated.
Note: There are additional books which include one or more of Frank E. Schoonover’s paintings, but they are not books specifically ‘illustrated’ by him.
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1899
A Jersey Boy in the Revolution, by Everett T. Tomlinson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
1900
The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
In the Hands of the Red Coats, by Everett T. Tomlinson, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
Sigurd Eckdel’s Bride
The Lane That Had No Turning, by Gilbert Parker, New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers.
1901
Colonial Fights and Fighters, by Cyrus Townsend Brady, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
Cardigan, by Robert W. Chambers, New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers.
Count Hannibal, by Weyman Stanley, Smith, London: Elder & Co.
The Curious Career of Roderick Campbell, by Jean N. McIlwraith, Macmillan, Toronto.
McClure’s Magazine
1902
The Backwoodsman, by H. A. Stanley, Doubleday, Page and Co., New York.
The Lane That Had No Turning, by Gilbert Parker, Doubleday, Page and Co., New York.
1903
The Blood Lilies, by William Alexander Fraser, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1904
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories, by John Fox, Jr., New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
The Deliverance, by Ellen Glasgow, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
1905
Jules of the Great Heart, by Lawrence Mott, New York: The Century Company.
Pardners, by Rex E. Beach, New York: A. L. Burt Co. Publishers.
1906
Bob and the Guides, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1907
Under the Crust, by Thomas Nelson Page, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Days Off, by Henry Van Dyke, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
The Lonesome Trail
His Wife, by Warren Cheney, CA: University of California Libraries.
The White Darkness, by Lawrence Mott, CA: University of California Libraries.
Bar-20, by Clarence E. Mulford, New York: The Outing Publishing Co.
Scribner’s Magazine
1908
The Children’s Longfellow, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
The Courage of Captain Plum, by James Oliver Curwood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
The Toy Shop, by Gerry Margarita Spalding, New York: Harper and Brothers.
1909
Northern Lights, by Gilbert Parker, Michigan: University of Michigan Library.
The Last Trail, Zane Grey, New York: Walter J. Black.
1910
Happy Island, by Jennette Lee, New York: The Century Company.
1911
Tom Brown’s School Days, by Thomas Hughes, New York: Harper & Brothers.
In the Haunts of Jean Lafitte
1912
The Secret of Lonesome Cove, by Samuel Hopkins Adams, New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
The Century Illustrated
1913
The Maid of the Forest, by Randall Parrish, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.
1914
Marmaduke of Tennessee, by Edward Cummings, Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co.
1915
Little Verses and Big Names, New York: George H. Doran Co.
1916
Bobby of the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace, Chicago: A.C. McClung & Co.
The Range Boss, by Charles Alden Seltzer, Chicago: A.C. McClung & Co.
The Copley Prints
1917
The Arctic Stowaways, by Dillon Wallace, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.
The Rustler of Wind River, George W. Ogden, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.
A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
With Cortes the Conqueror, by Virginia Watson, Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co.
1918
The Man From Bar-20, by Clarence Edward Mulford, New York: A. L. Burt Co.
The Wolves of the Sea, by Randall Parrish, Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb.
Cabin Fever, by B.M Bower, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
Joan of Arc, by Lucy Foster Madison, Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co.
The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.
1919
The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France, by Henry Van Dyke, New York: Harper & Brothers.
Rising Wolf, by Willard Shultz, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
The United States in the Great War, by Willis J. Abbot, New York: Leslie-Judge Co.
1920
Days Off and Other Digressions, by Henry Van Dyke, New York: C. Scribner’s Sons.
Deeds of Heroism and Bravery, by Elwyn A. Barron, New York: Harper & Brothers.
Harper’s Pictorial Library of the World Wars Vol. VIII, by C. Austin and J.M. Bird Lescaboura, New York: Harper & Brothers.
George Washington, by Lucy Foster Madison, New York: Hampton Publishing Co.
1921
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Arabian Nights Entertainment
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Toilers of the Trails, by George Marsh, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
Lafayette, by Lucy Foster Madison, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Harper & Brothers.
The Bar-20 Three, by Clarence E. Mulford, New York: A.L. Burt Co.
Connie Morgan in the Fur Country, by James B. Hendryx, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
The Swiss Family Robinson, by David Wyss, New York: Blue Ribbon Books.
Robin Hood
Gulliver’s Travels
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Little Red Foot, by Robert W. Chambers, New York: George H. Doran Co.
Tom Brown’s School Days
1922
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott, New York: Harper & Brothers.
Breed of the Wolf
Seizer of Eagles, by James Willard Schultz, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
The Fairy Book
Blackbeard Buccaneer, by Ralph D. Paine, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
The Whelps of the Wolf, by George March, New York: A.L. Burt Co.
1923
King Arthur and His Knights
The Flamingo Feather, by Kirk Munroe, New York: Harper & Brothers.
The Last of the Mohicans
Rider of the Stars
Connie Morgan in Cattle Country, by James B. Hendryx, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Privateers of ’76, by Ralph D. Paine, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
1924
At the Sign of the Silver Ship, by Stanley Hart Cauffman, New York: Penn Publishing Co.
Heidi
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge, New York: Harper & Brothers.
The Valley of Voices
Plumed Snake Medicine
Four Bells, by Ralph D. Paine, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.
The Prairie Shrine
1925
Men Marooned, by George Marsh, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
Washington
Questers of the Desert, by James Willard Schultz, New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
The Carolinian
1926
William Jackson Indian Scout, by James Willard Schultz, New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
The Deerslayer
American Hero Stories, by Eva March Tappan, New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
Oklahoma
The Wolf, the Cat and the Nightingale
1927
Life on the Mississippi
Roselle of the North, by Constance Lindsay Skinner, New York: Macmillan & Co.
Red Crow’s Brother
Aesop’s Fables
The White Company
1928
Lincoln
Masterman Ready
Frontier Days, by Oliver G. Swan, New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Covered Wagon Days
Under Frozen Stars
1929
Sled Trails and White Waters, by George Marsh, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield, Mary P. Wells Smith, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Deep Water Days, by Oliver G. Swan, New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Derry’s Partner, by Oliver G. Swan, New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Barbary Bo, by Reginald Wright Kauffman, New York: Hampton Publishing Co.
The Girl of Hilltop,
South From Hudson Bay, by E. C. Brill, Philadelphia: Macrae Smith.
1930
The White Captain
Pepper Pirates
The Hidden Children
1931
Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters, by Rupert Sargent Holland, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co.
The Scarlet Cockerel, by C. M. Sublett, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
To Have and To Hold, by Mary Johnston, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co.
1932
King Arthur and His Knights, by Henry Frith, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co.
Stories From the Arabian Knights
1933
The Crimson Cutlass, by Russell Gordon, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
Desert Water
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table/The Howard Pyle Brandywine Edition, by Howard Pyle, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1934
The Witch Finders
Roland the Warrior, by Virginia M. Collier and Jeanette Eaton, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
1935
Sinbad the Soldier
The House of the Four Winds
1936
The River of Skulls, by George Marsh, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co.
The White Buffalo Robe, by James Willard Schultz, New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1937
Rolling Wheels, by Katharine Grey, Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Stained Gold, by James Willard Schultz, New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1938
The Delaware Tercentenary Almanack and Historical Repository, Delaware: Delaware Tercentenary Commission.
Rifles for Washington, by Elsie Singmaster, New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Men of Moon Mountain
The White Canoe
1939
A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
1940
The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
1952
DuPont (End papers)
1955
Delaware Stays in the Union, by John S. Spruance, Delaware: University of Delaware Press.
1961
Trappers and Mountain Men