War of the Worlds, The 1898 - Warwick Goble (1862-1943) - 16 images

The iconic science-fiction book, War of the Worlds by English author H.G. Wells has never been out of print. It has spawned numerous feature films, radio dramas, a record album, comic book adaptations, television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors.

It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann. The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race.

The 1898 first edition was illustrated by Warwick Goble and although these pictures have been largely eclipsed by later illustrations, such as those by Alvim Correa, they remain a fabulous visual representation of Wells' text.

This download features 16 hi-res images, in jpeg format, by the illustrator Warwick Goble.

The images are all 300dpi and range in size from 1617 pixels wide/tall to 3295 pixels wide/tall.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.