Acknowledgment: I am greatly indebted to the support of Bayes’s great grand-daughter, Mrs Clare Ash, who provided all of the manuscript material, many of the details of the printed works, scans of illustrations and a huge amount of biographical information.


Works Cited — Illustrated by Bayes

Andersen, H. C. Everything in its Right Place and Other Stories. Trans. H. W. Dulcken. London: Routledge, 1869.

Andersen, H. C. Stories for the Household. Trans. H.W. Dulken. Illustrated by Bayes. London: Routledge, 1866.

Andersen, H. C What the Moon Saw. Trans. H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated by Bayes. London: Routledge, 1866.

Aunt Judy’s Magazine, ed. Mrs. Gatty. London: Bell & Daldy, 1869–71.

Bayes, A. W. Manuscript material: ‘The Studio’; fragment of an autobiography.

Dulcken, H. W. A Picture History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time. Illustrated by Bayes. London: Routledge [1865].

Ewing, Julia Horatia. Old Fashioned Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Bayes & Gordon Browne. London: SPCK [1882].

Golden Light: being Scripture Histories for the Young. Illustrated by Bayes. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1865.

Kind Words for Boys and Girls, ed. Benjamin Clarke [?]. London: Sunday School Union, 1867 –68.

Original Poems. Illustrated Bayes et al. London: Routledge, 1868.

Round of Days, A. London: Routledge, 1866.

Stretton, Hesba [Sarah Smith]. Little Meg’s Children. London: RTS [1868].

Secondary material

Cooke, Simon. Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s. Pinner: PLA; London: British Library & Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010.

‘Christmas Books’. The Examiner 15 December 1866: 791.

‘Current Literature’. The Spectator 38 (1865): 1441.

English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Ed. Robert Aris Wilmott. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1862.

Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustrated Books 1850–70: The Heyday of Wood-Engraving. London: British Museum, 1994.

Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians. Aldershot: Scolar, 1996; revised & enlarged ed. London: Lund Humphries, 2004.

Good Words. London: Alexander Stahan, 1861–62.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928.


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