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- Life and work
- Selected books illustrated by Railton
- References
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{{ref improve|date=April 2015}}Herbert Railton (21 November 1857 – 15 March 1910), was an English artist and leading black and white illustrator of books and magazines. Life and workRailton was born in Pleasington, near Blackburn, Lancashire, and educated at Mechlin in Belgium and Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire (England). He trained as an architect at the firm of W.S. Varley in Blackburn. He joined the local literary club where he met artist Charles Haworth, who became his mentor, and gave him further instruction in working in black and white. After his drawings of a railway accident at Blackburn station (1881) were published in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Railton went on to become one of the leading illustrators of his day. He moved to London and married Frances, another illustrator - they had one child, Ione, who also became an illustrator. Railton provided many black and white illustrations for magazines and books - including editions of books by famous authors such Thomas Hood (The Haunted House), Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson etc. and travel guides. Railton died of pneumonia in 1910, aged 53. Selected books illustrated by Railton- Thomas Lovell Beddoes. [https://archive.org/details/poeticalthom01beddrich The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes] (J.M. Dent & Co., 1890).
- William Benham. [https://archive.org/details/winchestercathe00benhgoog Winchester Cathedral] (Isbister & Co. Ltd., 1897).
- C. M. Church. [https://archive.org/details/wellscathedral00chur Wells Cathedral] (Ibister & Co. ltd., 1897).
- John Lionel Darby. [https://archive.org/details/chestercathedral00darb Chester Cathedral] (Isbister & Co. Ltd., 1898).
- Ernest Gilliat-Smith. [https://archive.org/details/storyofbruges00gilluoft The Story of Bruges] (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1909).
- Cecil Headlam. [https://archive.org/details/storyofchartres00head The story of Chartres] (J.M. Dent & Co., 1902).
- Cecil Headlam. [https://archive.org/details/storyofoxfordill00headuoft The Story of Oxford] (J.M. Dent & Co., 1907).
- Thomas Hood. [https://archive.org/details/hauntedhouseillu00hooduoft The Haunted House] (Lawrence & Bullen, 1896).
- William H. Hutton. [https://archive.org/details/hamptoncourt00huttgoog Hampton Court] (John C. Nimmo, 1897).
- Sidney Lee. [https://archive.org/details/leesstratford00leesuoft Stratford on Avon] (Seeley & Co. Ltd., 1904).
- W.J. Loftie. [https://archive.org/details/innsofcourtchanc00loftuoft The Inns of Court and Chancery] (Seeley & Co., 1908)
- B.E. Martin [https://archive.org/details/footprintsofchar00mart In the footprints of Charles Lamb] (Charles Scribner's sons, 1890).
- W.C.E. Newbolt. [https://archive.org/details/cathedralsengla01farrgoog The cathedrals of England] (Thomas Whittaker, 1899).
- W.C.E. Newbolt. [https://archive.org/details/stpaulscathedra00newbgoog St. Paul's Cathedral] (Isbister & Co. Ltd., 1897).
- W.H.O. Smeaton. [https://archive.org/details/edinburghandits01smeagoog Edinburgh and its story] (J.M. Dent & Co., 1904).
- Charles William Stubbs. [https://archive.org/details/cambridgeitsstor00stub Cambridge and its story] (J.M. Dent & Co., 1903).
- W.O. Tristram. [https://archive.org/details/coachingdayscoac00tris Coaching days and coaching ways] (MacMillan & Co., 1893).
- M.G. Williamson. [https://archive.org/details/edinburghhistori00williala Edinburgh; a historical and topographical account of the city] (Methuen & Co., 1906).
ReferencesExternal links{{commons category}}- {{Gutenberg author |id=Railton,+Herbert | name=Herbert Railton}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Herbert Railton}}
- Herbert Railton (Biography at Cottontown.org).
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