Stanley Lloyd

BIBLIOGRAPHY - Pony Books Illustrated by
Stanley LLoyd

 

 

Primrose Cumming:  Silver Snaffles

Blackie, 1937

 

Primrose Cumming: The Wednesday Pony

Blackie, 1939

 

Primrose Cumming:  The Chestnut Filly

Blackie, 1940

 

J Ivester Lloyd :  The People of the Valley

(illus also T Ivester Lloyd)
Country Life, 1943

 

Brian Fairfax Lucy:  Horses from the Valley
Oxford University Press, 1941

Reprinted Transworld, pb, 1955

 

Brian Fairfax Lucy:  The Horse from India

Frederick Muller, 1944

 

Marjorie Mary Oliver: Riding Days in Hook’s Hollow

Country Life, 1944

 

Ruth Clarke:  Bonny the Pony
Frederick Warne, 1947

 

J Ivester Lloyd:  Johnny Rides Out

Citadel Press, 1948

 

Betty Cavanna:  Spurs for Suzanna
Lutterworth Press, 1948

 

Ethel Nokes:  That Ass Neddy

Ward, Lock & Co, 1948

 

Brenda Spender:  The Friends of Van

Country Life, 1949

 

Joan Dickins:  Jill and Prince the Pony
Blackie, 1949

 

Marjorie Mary Oliver:  Horseman’s Island

Country Life, 1950

 

Paddy Miles & Rosemary Griffin

The Ponies Loved It Too

Blackie, 1950

 

Marjorie Mary Oliver:  A Riding We Will Go

Lutterworth, 1951

 

Anna Sewell:  Black Beauty
Ward Lock : undated.  It might possibly date from 1934.  There is a copy in the British Library from this date, but with no illustrator listed.

 

 

Also:

 

By Enid Blyton:
First Term at Mallory Towers (1946)

Second Form at Malory Towers (1947)

Third Year at Malory Towers (1948)

Upper Forth at Malory Towers (1949)

In the Fifth at Mallory Towers (1950)

Last Term at Mallory Towers (1951)

Third Year at Mallory Towers (1948)

 

As author:

Jam Sauce: A Humorous Novel
Stanley Paul, 1947

 

Thick Treacle

Stanley Paul, 1950

 

Other:
H J Muir:  Hoo Hooey
Country Life, 1947

 

Joy Francis:  The Greystone Girls series
Blackie

 

 

 

 

Stanley Lloyd is probably best known for his illustrations for Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, for which he did all the first edition illustrations.  He was, though, very active in the field of pony book illustration, and the majority of his published work illustrating books featured horses.  He started his career doing magazine illustration for The Detective Magazine, and later for Woman’s Magazine, but his most iconic illustrations are those he did for Primrose Cumming’s Silver Snaffles. Knight, when they republished the book as a paperback, cut the illustrations entirely, but they are one of the things that made the book so magical for so many readers.  When Fidra Books reissued Silver Snaffles, all the original illustrations were included.  They are possibly his best, capturing the feeling between the children and the ponies, though his donkey in Ethel Nokes’ That Ass Neddy does have a rare charm too.

His illustrations don’t meet with universal approval:  he did have a weakness for portraying ponies with very wide foreheads, and occasionally rather bulging eyes (see in particular A-Riding We Will Go, and The Chestnut Filly, though there are other titles I could just as easily have quoted.)  This either seems to form part of his charm, or to infuriate.

Stanley Lloyd illustrated several of John Ivester Lloyd’s books. He was John Ivester Lloyd’s uncle, and
brother of his father, the well known artist Tom Ivester Lloyd.

There are two books I can find written by Stanley Lloyd:  Jam Sauce: A Humorous Novel , which is according to the author of Heather’s Blyton Pages: “a story about three young men a beautiful girl, missing jewels, crazy crooks and a maharajah! “, and Thick Treacle.

The books he illustrated are generally easy to find:  though if you want Silver Snaffles as a hardback this will probably be expensive, and this will also apply to the Enid Blyton firsts.

Thank you to Carol Hewson for giving me permission to use these images.

Sources

Carol Hewson: Stanley Lloyd’s great niece
Heather’s Blyton Pages