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===Other works=== * ''[[Otto of the Silver Hand]]'', about the son of a robber baron during the medieval period. * ''Rejected of Men:<ref>The title is from Isaiah 53:3 (KJV), "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."</ref> A Story of To-day'' (1903), setting the story of [[Jesus]] as if it had occurred during early twentieth-century America. * ''Portfolio of Etchings'':<ref>{{Cite web |title=Etchings by W. H. W. Bicknell after Original Paintings by Howard Pyle |url=https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Etchings-Bicknell-after-Original-Paintings-Howard/304165530/bd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201224538/https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Etchings-Bicknell-after-Original-Paintings-Howard/304165530/bd |archive-date=2024-02-01 |website=AbeBooks}}</ref> In 1903 the Bibliophile Society of Boston commissioned Pyle to create a series of paintings of scholars and bibliophiles for a limited, four-volume set of books titled ''[[iarchive:biblio4/page/n19/mode/2up|The bibliomania, or book-madness]]''. The paintings proved popular and the Bibliophile Society commissioned American engraver {{ill|William H. W. Bicknell|qid=Q22002308|short=yes}} to create copper etched copies of Pyle's five oil paintings from ''The Bibliomania'' books. The etched prints in the ''Portfolio of Etchings'' from the Special Collections and Archives at [[Albertsons Library]], [[Boise State University|BSU]],<ref name="Cordova 2016">{{cite web |last=Cordova |first=Memo |title=The Father of Illustration: From Boston to Boise |url=https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=lib_facpubs |website=ScholarWorks - Boise State University Scholarship and Research |publisher=The Albertsons Library, BSU |series=Library Faculty Publications and Presentations |date=2016-04-01 |access-date=2024-03-27}}</ref> portray the following literary figures: <gallery> File:Richard_de_Bury_and_the_Young_Edward_III.jpg|'''[[Richard de Bury]] and the Young [[Edward III of England|Edward III]]''' File:Caxton_at_his_Press.jpg|'''[[William Caxton|Caxton]] at his Press''' File:Erasmus_reading_to_Colet_and_More.jpg|'''[[Erasmus]] reading to [[John Colet|Colet]] and [[Thomas More|More]]''' </gallery>The remaining etchings are titled: βFriarβ [[Roger Bacon|Bacon]] in His Study, and [[Izaak Walton|"Izaak" Walton]] * ''The Wonder Clock'' (1887), a collection of twenty-four tales, one for each hour of the day. Each tale was prefaced by a whimsical verse telling of traditional household goings-on at that hour. His sister [[Katharine Pyle]] wrote the verses. Pyle created the tales based on traditional European folktales. * ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15664/15664-h/15664-h.htm Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk]'', traditional tales for younger readers which he also illustrated. * After his death, a publisher collected a number of his pirate stories and illustrations and published them as ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26862/26862-h/26862-h.htm Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates]'' (1921). <gallery widths="135px" heights="200px"> File:Pyle pirate handsome.jpg|''Buccaneer of the Caribbean'', from ''Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates'' File:Pyle pirates treasfight.jpg|[[Pirate]]s fight in ''Who Shall Be Captain?'', 1911, from ''Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates'' </gallery>
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