Books
He illustrated books by James Whitcomb Riley, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Archibald Rutledge, Meredith Nicholson, Caroline D. Owen and other authors.
Some of the notable books Booth contributed to are: The Flying Islands of the Night (1913), The Prince and the Pauper (1917), A Hoosier Holiday (1916 - first US travel biography), The Poet (1914) and From Death to Life by A. Apukhtin (1917).
Other contributions include illustrating the annual Telephone Almanac from 1936 to 1944, and several years for the Victrola Record catalogue.
In 1925, a limited edition (210 copies) and regular edition of his work was published "Sixty Reproductions from Original Drawings" by Robert Frank. In 1976 this version was published again- smaller in size and lesser quality paper by Nostalgia Press. All three versions are difficult to locate today.
In 2000, the United States Post Office released: Classic Collections "American Illustrators" 34 cent postage stamps. Showing 20 famous American Illustrators including header artwork from Franklin Booth. (Scott# 3502) self-adhesive, serpentine die-cut sheets.
Despite the laboriousness of his technique, Booth's compositions were characterised by a grand sense of space. As a result, his drawings were often well-matched to poetic or editorial entries.
Books collecting his illustrations include Franklin Booth: American Illustrator (2006), edited by Manuel Auad by Auad Publishing, and Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen (2002) by John Fleskes.
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