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Ilustrations of course are very important for children' books. Coppings books are for older children . The illustrations do not dominate the book, but are interspersed among mostly text pages. While Copping is lagely associated with religious work, he illustrated many other books for children. One of his importat genre were school stories. These were very popular at the time. Here we have a good example of his school lustrations (figure 1). It is intersing that they were so poplar. They were mostly set in private boarding schools known as public schools. But only small pecetage of the British boys atended these schools and an even smaller percentage of girls. Copping and H.M. Brock are probably the most popular artists illustrating these school stories. Their work mosty deicted the schools at the time that they did their illustrations. This they can be taken as an accuate depiction of contemprary schoolwear. While school illustrations are Coppings best known non-relgious illustrations, they are not his only departure from his main focus. We see him illistrating a variety f other books. We note, for example some work on Dickens' books. Here heis deicting cloting styles several decaded emoved from the stioruies depicted. Thus they can not be takn as te same authotity as his school illustrations.
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