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CHRONOLOGY OF TRUE W. WILLIAMS' WORKS & HIS PUBLISHERS
Illustrator Truman W. Williams:
Born
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Died
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Williams' illustrations appear in the following:
1862-
Harper's Weekly, "Rebel
Prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois," April 5, 1862
1869
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Struggles and Triumphs: or Forty Years of Recollections, P. T.
Barnum. J. B. Burr & Co.,
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: 11 out of 33; no other illustrator signified.
Reprinted
and updated in 1889 as Struggles and Triumphs: or Sixty Years of Recollections. Courier
Company Printers.
Beyond the
(Williams' illustrations do not appear in the 1867 first edition of this volume. The 1869 edition is an expanded edition.)
No. of illustrations attributed to Williams in index: 2 out of 216; numerous other illustrators
The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain. American
Publishing Company,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 4 out of 234
1870
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No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 6 out 193; numerous other illustrators
Twenty Years Among the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, Matthew Hale Smith.
J.
B. Burr & Co.,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 1 out of 12; no other illustrators signified
reprinted
and expanded in 1873 as: Bulls
& Bears of
Palace and Hovel, Daniel Joseph Kirwan. Belknap & Bliss,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 6 out of 34; no other illustrator signified
Harper's Bazar,
1871
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Art Review, vol. 1, March 1871, "The Hawks Nest", illustrated poem by Bret Harte.
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: one full page
Sights and Sensations in
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 1 out of 70; (13 additional reprinted from Innocents Abroad)
frontispiece
reprint of Empress Eugunie from Harper's
Bazar,
one
reprint of Beggar Woman from Harper's Weekly,
Roughing It, Mark Twain. American Publishing Company,
Afoot and Alone; a Walk from Sea to Sea, Stephen Powers. Columbian Book Co.,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 6 out of 29; others in Williams' style
Disinthralled: A Story of My Life, George M. Dutcher. Columbian Book Co.,
No.of illustrations signed by Williams: 1 out of 6 (full page)
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's,
(no original TWW illustrations; reprints from Roughing It, Disinthralled, and Palace and Hovel)
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 5 out 56 (reprinted from Roughing It ); other illustrators include Tudor Horton and James Carter Beard
The Gilded Age, Mark Twain & Charles
Dudley Warner. American Publishing Company,
(also includes one reprint from Palace and Hovel)
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 30 out of 212 (3 are full page)
Knots Untied, George S. McWatters. J. B. Burr and Hyde,
Contains
reprints of illustrations from Twenty Years Among
the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street.
Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs, Joaquin
Miller. American Publishing Company,
also issued as Paquita, Indian Heroine
reprinted
1968, Gregg Press,
Williams sole illustrator: 25 full page illustrations
John Paul's Book, Charles Henry Webb. Columbian Book Co.,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 17 of 32 (all full page); 3 unsigned; other illustrations by W.H. Davenport
Squibs of
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 1 out of 183; numerous in Williiams' style; others signed by Palmer Cox; one reprint from Overland Through Asia titles "An Old Salt".
People from the other World, Henry
S. Olcott. American Publishing
Company,
(copyrighted 1874)
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: 11 of 58; Alfred Kappes
other illustrator
Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old,
Mark Twain, American Publishing Company,
Tobacco: It's History, Varieties,
Culture, E. R. Billings. American Publishing Company,
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: 14 out of 170 including full page frontispiece;
other illustrators include
History of the Big Bonanza, William
Wright (Dan DeQuille). American Publishing
Company,
Illustrations
signed by Williams: 19 out of 91 (numerous others in his style and
script); other illustrators include
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark
Twain, American Publishing Company,
Guarding the Mails; or, the Secret Service
of the Post Office Department, Patrick Henry Woodward. Dustin,
Gilman & Co.,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 52 out of 161; other illustrators A. R. Waud and Benjamin Day
The Great American Story: Gabriel Conroy, Bret Harte. American Publishing Company,
Williams sole illustrator: 33 full page illustrations
Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. [Promiscuous Advisor] and
P.I. [Private Investigator]: Samantha
at the Centennial,
Williams sole illustrator: 88 total illustrations; (26 are full page); two repeated from Squibs of California
Illustrated
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 36 out of 127 (29 are full page); additional illustrations in Williams style are unsigned
Detectives of
J.
B. Burr Publishing Co.,
Contains
reprints of illustrations from Twenty Years Among
the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street.
Innocents from Abroad, George Douglas Tallman.
G. W. Carleton & Co.
Williams sole illustrator: 10 full page illustrations
1879
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Heroes of Three Wars, Willard Glazier.
Hubbard Bros.,
(copyrighted in 1878); released in 1879
* 15 illustrations; 2 signed WILLIAMS, PHILA and 1 signed WILLIAMS.
However, they have not been definitely attributed to True W. Williams even though they are similiar to his style.
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill: An Autobiography. F. E. Bliss,
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: 14 out of 80 (10 are full page); others in Williams
style are unsigned; additional reprints from Roughing It, Tom
Sawyer, Big Bonanza, and Squibs of
A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain, American Publishing Company,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: at least 34 out of 328 (three are full page)
My Wayward Pardner,
Sole illustrator: 132 illustrations (36 full page)
The Lament of the Mormon Wife,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 1 out of 11; others in Williams' style; no other illustrator signified
1882
–
Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information, compiled by Nugent
Robinson. Peter Fenelon Collier
& Son, 1882. 9 full page illustrations.
1883
-
Miss Richard's Boy & Other Stories,
by
Copyrighted 1882; 1st edition Feb. 1883; reprinted 1887.
Sole
illustrator: 148 illustrations (17
full page)
Peculiarities of
A Modern Quixote: or, My wife's
fool of a husband, by August
Sole illustrator: 127 (8 full page)
Platform Echoes: Or Leaves From
My Note-Book of Forty Years, John B. Gough. A. D. Worthington &
Co.,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 24 out of 263 (includes decorative chapter headings); 3 of the 24 are full page illustrations; majority of others in Williams style contain his "trademark" characters and flourishes are unsigned; other illustrators are F. O. C. Darley, Wm. Sheppard, and George White
The Sower - A Poem, by Augustus Currey; illustrations designed and drawn by True Williams. Riverside Publishing Co., Detroit, Michigan
Sole illustrator: 12 illustrations
The Lives of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan,
Republican Presidential Candidates of 1884, Thomas W. Knox.
Hartford Publishing Company,
Sole illustrator: 12 full page illustrations
Rules of Etiquette and Home Culture; or What to Do and How to Do it,
Walter Raleigh Houghton, et. Al.
Rand McNally,
132
illustration; none signed by Williams; majority signed Rand McNally; 2 reprinted
from The Lament of the Mormon Wife
Our Famous Women, by Twenty Eminent
Authors. A. D. Worthington &
Co.,
1885
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Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and Sailors,
Fletcher Bassett. Belford-Clarke,
reprinted
1971 by Singing Tree Press,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 23 of 55 (13 are full page); no other illustrator signified
Shadowed to
Sole illustrator: 14 full page illustrations plus book cover
New Stories from an Old Book, H. L. Hammond. Belford-Clarke, Chicago, IL
Reprinted
1887 by L. P. Miller & Co.,
Sole illustrator: 25 full page illustrations
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago and New York. (Caxton edition). Full page frontispiece.
Romola, George Eliot. Belford,
Clarke and Company,
Silas
Marner,
the Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob and Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot. Belford, Clarke and Company,
Two Women in Black, the marvelous career of
a noted forger, John W. Postgate (from the
Mooney & Boland detective series). Belford-Clarke,
republished in 1890 as Two Women in Black by James Mooney, Belford-Clarke, Microfilm held by Library of Congress.
[Note: several letters from John W. Postgate to Samuel Clemens are listed in UNION CATALOG OF LETTERS .]
Sole illustrator: 16 full page illustrations
Her Desperate Victory, Martha Louise Rayne. Belford-Clarke,
Sole illustrator: 5 full page illustrations
The
Chicago Riot: A Record of the Terrible Scenes of May 4, 1886, Paul
C. Hull. Belford-Clarke, Chicago, IL.
Sole illustrator: 10 full page illustrations
Baughman, the
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 4 out of 9 (all full page)
Favorite Fairy Tales. Belford-Clarke,
Belford's Annual 1886-87. Edited by Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke,
1887
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Theophrastus
Such; Jubal, and Other Poems; and The Spanish Gypsy, George
Eliot. Belford, Clarke and Company,
Shams or Uncle Ben's
Experience with Hypocrites; John S. Draper. National Book and Picture Co.,
Wonders of a
edited
by Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke,
Sole illustrator: 6 full page illustrations
Down the
25 illustrations
East Lynne, Mrs. Henry Wood. Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago and New York.(Caxton edition). Full page frontispiece signed Wms.
How Private George Peck Put Down the Rebellion, George Wilbur
Peck. Belford-Clarke,
reprinted
by Morrill, Higgins, & Co., 1893,
reprinted by W. B. Conkey, 1900
Sole
illustrator: 16 full page illustrations
Peck's Irish Friend, Phelan Geoheagan, George Wilbur Peck. Belford-Clarke, Chicago, copyrighted in 1887
reprinted
in 1894 by W. B. Conkey,
Sole illustrator: 30 illustrations plus cover
Belford's Annual 1887-88; Edited by
Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke,
Felix
Holt, the Radical, George
Eliot. Belford, Clarke and Company,
Poetry & Pictures for the Little Ones, edited by Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke,
color cover
Sole illustrator: 41 illustrations
Animals and Birds, edited by Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke, Chicago, IL, copyrighted in 1888
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 8 (full page) out of 33
Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old & New,
Bill Nye. Belford-Clarke,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 12 full page; other illustrators Frederick Burr Opper and Livingston Hopkins.
History of
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 2 out of 76; others in Williams' style unsigned
The
Little Blind God on Rails: A Romaunt of the Gold Northwest, by James
Daly. Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, IL. Also Chicago and North Western
Railway Company. Color cover. (Note: James Daly may be pseudonym for Frank
S. Gray who wrote For Love and Bears.)
No. of illustrations by Williams: more than 24.
Belford's Annual 1888-89, ed. Thomas W. Handford.
Belford-Clarke,
color frontispiece
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 60 out of 119; others in Williams' style unsigned
Rand McNally & Co.'s New
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: 2 out of 101; others in his style contain inscription
of Rand McNally resembling Williams's handwriting. Reprinted as
Christmas Day: stories, legends,
and poems, ed. Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 8 (full page) out of 25; others in Williams' style are unsigned
1889
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Daniel
Deronda, George Eliot. Belford,
Clarke and Company,
Middlemarch,
George Eliot. Belford, Clarke and Company,
Struggles and Triumphs: or Sixty
Years of Recollections, P. T. Barnum. Buffalo: The Courier Company (reprinted) retained 25
of the original illustrations from the 1869 volume out of a new total of 43
Grandma's Stories, ed. Thomas W. Handford. Belford-Clarke,
Reprinted
by L. M. Ayer Publishing Co.,
Andersen's Fairy Tales, H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen, Belford-Clarke,
reprinted
in 1899 by W. B. Conkey,
reprinted
by Homewood Publishing,
Old
also titled Old Californian Days in some later editions
reprinted in 1893 by Homewood Publishing Co.
Sole illustrator: 41 illustrations (5 full page)
Echoes from the
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 26 out of 109
The Boy Spy, J. O. Kerby. Belford, Clarke and Company,
No. of illustrations: 33 full page. Williams sole illustrator.
Mill on the Floss, George
Eliot. Belford, Clarke and Company, 1889.
Frontispiece.
Adam Bede and Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot. Belford, Clarke and Company, 1889. Frontispiece.
Happy Days, Thomas Handford. Belford, Clarke and Company,
History of
Belford's Annual 1889-90, edited by
Thomas Handford. Belford-Clarke,
Anarchy and Anarchists. Michale
Schaack. F. J. Schulte and Company,
Sunshine and Roses. Belford,
Clarke and Company,
Frank Fairweather's
Fortunes, True Williams. Belford-Clarke,
reprinted
by W. B. Conkey,
reprinted by Juvenile Book House, c1895.
Sole illustrator: 98 illustrations plus cover (108 illustrations if tail-pieces included.) 63 full page; 34 partial page; 10 tailpieces.
Under the Open Sky, poems edited and illustrated by True Williams.
Belford-Clarke,
Sole illustrator: 37 illustrations plus cover
Dreamland, Belford,
Clarke and Company
Good Times, Belford,
Clarke & Co.,
reprinted
1892 by W. B. Conkey,
Sole illustrator: 12 full page illustrations plus cover
Kings of the Platform and Pulpit, Melville
D. Landon. Belford-Clarke,
reprinted
reprinted Werner Co., Chicago, 1893 (Alexander Belford, Vice-President of Werner Co.)
reprinted
Saalfield Pub.,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 16 full page; numerous others in his style
Three of a Kind, best writings of George W. Peck, Bill Nye, and
M. Quad. Belford-Clarke,
Portions
reprinted in 1895 as American Wit and Humor,
W. B. Conkey,
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 2 full page reprints from Bill Nye's Chestnusts Old & New
My Own Story, Joaquin Miller. Belford-Clarke,
Sole illustrator: 9 full page illustrations
Cooper's Novels, James Fenimore Cooper.
(Thirty-two volumes).
Belford, Clarke and Company,
Frontispiece for each volume.
Tentatively identified as 1890 - no publication date given.
Also
published in sixteen volume set as J. Fenimore Cooper's Works by John W. Lovell Company,
Lads and Lasses - Poems for Children. Belford,
Clarke and Company,
Sparkles for Bright Eyes - Poems & Essays, edited by Thomas
W. Handford, Belford-Clarke,
Sole illustrator: 54 illustrations
1892 -
Headwaters of the
Sole illustrator: 58 full page illustrations including retouched photographs; additional decorative chapter headings. 1897 edition included additional illustrations.
Good Times - Tales of Family and Children. Thomas Handford.
Morrill, Higgins, & Co.,
37 full page Williams illustrations -- many from Belford Annuals; others in his style
Three Girls in a Flat. Enid Yandell. Knight, Leonard and Company, 1892.
Rosebuds. Thomas Handford. Morrill, Higgins and Company, Chicago, IL.
Frontispiece; copy of Lavinia (unsigned)
1893 -
Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, George Wilbur
Peck. W. B. Conkey,
(first Belford-Clarke edition of this appeared in 1883 without TWW illustrations;
year Williams first illustrated this work is yet to be determined)
reprinted
in 1900 by Charles C. Thompson Co. Publishers,
reprinted
in 1958 by Dover Publications,
Sole illustrator:
Rand McNally & Company's Handbook to the
World's Columbian Exposition. Randy McNally
& Company,
New Guide to the
No. of illustrations signed by Williams: 3 out of 56; 26 are signed Rand McNally
1895
-
American Wit and Humor, W. B. Conkey,
No.
of illustrations signed by Williams: 2 full page reprints from Bill
Nye's Chestnusts Old & New
Idle Hours with Birds and Flowers. W. B. Conkey,
Busy and Bright from Morning Till Night. W.
B. Conkey,
1896
-
A May Day Outing. W. B.
Conkey,
1897
-
Christmas Morning. W. B. Conkey,
Happy Hours, Wild Animal Primer. W. B. Conkey,
Nov. 1897 - True Williams works on illustrations for :
John L. Stoddards' Lectures, vols. 1 - 10 , by John L. Stoddard, published by Balch Bros., Boston, MA.
Vol. 1 - 4, copyrighted in 1897 by Belford & Middlebrook
Vol. 5 - 10, copyrighted in 1898
(10 original volumes of lectures; over 3,400 illustrations consisting of retouched photographs - some with color; brush washes, and a few line drawings. Illustrations are not signed; thus the extent of Williams's work on these volumes prior to his death cannot be positively verified. Many contain the flourish of birds in flight that was prominent in the work he did in Illustrated India. This flourish decreases in the later volumes copyrighted in 1898.
Others
with undetermined years of first appearances but were published after Williams's
death:
At Home and Abroad,
Jolly Chimes for Christmas Times,
Old Santa Claus.
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