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![[picture: Front cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Nye-HistoryOfEngland/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-355x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover]")
Pictures from Bill Nye’s History of England by (as you guessed) Bill Nye, in 1896; my copy is dated 1900 and has a preface that mentions the death of the author.
The cartoons are by W. M. Goodes and A. M. Richards. William M. Goodes was born in Portage County, Ohio, in March 1857, the son of a painter. He became a popular American cartoonist, and died on 15th April 1919.
The book was published in the US before 1923, and, since the creators were American, is in the public domain.
Title: Bill Nye’s History of England
Published by: J. B. Lippincott Company
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1900
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: detail: swinging corpse]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Nye-HistoryOfEngland/wm/big/187-detail-swinging-corpse-q75-98x200.jpg "[picture: detail: swinging corpse]")
This is a version of A Reluctant Tax Payer with the background cut away, to make a more powerful (but less moody) image. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title page detail: Scholarly King]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Nye-HistoryOfEngland/wm/big/000-Title-page-detail-scholar-king-q75-182x200.jpg "[picture: Title page detail: Scholarly King]")
Title page detail: Scholarly King
In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled. [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Discovery of Tin in Britain]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Nye-HistoryOfEngland/wm/big/014-The-Discovery-of-Tin-in-Britain-q75-319x200.jpg "[picture: The Discovery of Tin in Britain]")
The Discovery of Tin in Britain
A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin. [$]
![[picture: The Vigil of Arms]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Nye-HistoryOfEngland/wm/big/102-The-Vigil-of-Arms-q75-311x200.jpg "[picture: The Vigil of Arms]")
“The most peculiar condition required for entry into knighthood was the “vigil of arms,” which consisted in keeping a long silent watch in some gloomy spot—a haunted one preferred—over the arms he was about to assume. The illustration representing this subject is without doubt one of the best of the kind extant, and even in the present age of [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Nye-HistoryOfEngland/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-142x200.jpg "[picture: Front cover]")
The front cover; the book is bound in plain buckram, with a cute design on the front of a gnome or pixie curled up reading a book, done in red and black with goild [...]detail of front cover. [more...] [$]
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