Edgar Alfred Holloway

Edgar Alfred Holloway (1870 - 1941) was a noted illustrator of children's books. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He became a war artist during the Boer War. He excelled in military uniform portraits and his illustrations have subsequently been reprinted in books on British army uniforms [See e.g. Peter Harrington British Army Uniforms in Colourre] .

Holloway contributed illustrations to the Boy's Own Paper and Young England magazine and illustrated numerous children's books - mostly adventure books for boys. He emigrated to Australia in 1930 and illustrated a number of books for the Cornstalk Publishing Company in Sydney. He died in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, in 1941. [ cite web
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Picture Books by Edgar Alfred Holloway

*"ABC of Jolly Jack", London, Gale & Polden, ca. 1920.
*"Soldiers of Many Lands", London, Gale & Polden, 1917.
*"A wounded soldier is found by a rescue dog who alerts the nurse and ambulancemen of their whereabouts". Coloured chromolithograph, 1904

Other Works illustrated by Edward Alfred Holloway

*Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscom), "Lone Tree Lode", London: Duckworth & Co.,1913.
*W.E. Cule, "Rodborough School", Pilgrim Press, 1915.
*D.E. Alarcon, D. Pedro, "The Three-Cornered Hat". Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925.
*Mary Grant Bruce, "Hugh Stanford's Luck". Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925.
*E. V. Tims (David Roseler). "Lawrence, Prince of Mecca". Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1927.
*E. V. Tims (David Roseler). "The Valley of Adventure". Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1929.

References

External Links

* [http://www.angloboerwarmuseum.com/Boer93l_holloway.html The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum ]
*cite web
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title=Holloway, Edgar A.
url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A4k$
accessdate=2008-09-11