Horace John Knowles ( 22 July 1884 – 21 August 1954 ) was an author and illustrator. He is remembered mostly for magical depictions of Fairyland in his magnum opus Peeps into Fairyland, [1] as well as for his biblical illustrations. For his first two published books, Legends from Fairyland (1908) [2] and Norse Fairy Tales (1910), [3] he collaborated with his brother Reginald L. Knowles.
Knowles' style, similar to that of his brother, has often been described as Art Nouveau.[ citation needed]
A set of biblical illustrations and maps created for the British and Foreign Bible Society's 1954 edition of the Revised Standard Version, [4] [5] later used in the popular New English Bible, [6] the King James Authorised Version 400th Anniversary Edition Bible, [7] and other bibles.
Whilst the text of the Bible remains unchanged from that published by The British and Foreign Bible Society in 1954, much care has been taken with this edition to set that text as clearly as possible on the page. The layout is uncluttered and this, together with the inclusion of illustrations created originally by Horace Knowles for the Revised Standard version in 1952, helps to bring greater immediacy to this 400-year-old translation.
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Horace John Knowles ( 22 July 1884 – 21 August 1954 ) was an author and illustrator. He is remembered mostly for magical depictions of Fairyland in his magnum opus Peeps into Fairyland, [1] as well as for his biblical illustrations. For his first two published books, Legends from Fairyland (1908) [2] and Norse Fairy Tales (1910), [3] he collaborated with his brother Reginald L. Knowles.
Knowles' style, similar to that of his brother, has often been described as Art Nouveau.[ citation needed]
A set of biblical illustrations and maps created for the British and Foreign Bible Society's 1954 edition of the Revised Standard Version, [4] [5] later used in the popular New English Bible, [6] the King James Authorised Version 400th Anniversary Edition Bible, [7] and other bibles.
Whilst the text of the Bible remains unchanged from that published by The British and Foreign Bible Society in 1954, much care has been taken with this edition to set that text as clearly as possible on the page. The layout is uncluttered and this, together with the inclusion of illustrations created originally by Horace Knowles for the Revised Standard version in 1952, helps to bring greater immediacy to this 400-year-old translation.
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