Francis Donkin Bedford (1864–1954), also known as F. D. Bedford, was a British artist and illustrator. He was born in Notting Hill and lived in London. He painted genre scenes and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892.
F.D. Bedford’s works include illustrations for A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1897), The Books of Shops (1899), Four and Twenty Toilers (1900), The Visit to London (1902), Forgotten Tales of Long Ago (1906), Runaways and Castaways (1908), Peter and Wendy (1911), The Magic Fishbone (1921), Under the Tree (1922), A Christmas Carol (1923), and The Cricket on the Hearth (1927).
List of Books illustrated by F.D Bedford
- Gould, S.B. – Old Country Life, Methuen, 1890
- —- The Deserts of Southern France, Methuen, 1894
- Homer – The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, Methuen, 1894
- Gould, S.B. – Old English Fairy Tales, Methuen, 1895
- —- A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Methuen, 1897
- Goldsmith, O. – The Vicar of Wakefield, Dent, 1898
- Thackeray, W.M. – The History of Henry Esmond, Dent, 1898
- Lucas, E.V. – The Book of Shops, Richards, 1899
- —- Four and Twenty Toilers, Richards, 1900
- Troutbeck, G.E. – Westminster Abbey, Methuen, 1900
- Lucas, E.V. – The Visit to London, Methuen, 1902
- Clinch, G.- Kent, Methuen, 1903
- Gilbert, A. – The ‘Original Poems’ and others Wells, Gardner, 1903
- Roscoe, E.S. – Buckinghamshire, Methuen, 1903
- Clinch, G. – The Isle of Wight, Methuen, 1904
- Field, L. – Two are Company Wells, Gardner, 1905
- Lucas, E.V. – Old Fashioned Tales Wells, Gardner, 1905
- Bedford, F.D. – A Night of Wonders, Richards, 1906
- Lucas, E.V. – Forgotten Tales of Long Ago Wells, Gardner, 1906
- —- Book of Verses for Children Wells, Gardner, 1907
- —- Another Book of Verses for Children Wells, Gardner, 1907
- —- Runaways and Castaways Wells, Gardner, 1908
- Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan and Wendy, Hodder & Stoughton 1911
- Langbridge, R. – The Land of the Ever Young, S.P.C.K. 1920
- Dickens, C. – The Magic Fishbone, Warne, 1921
- MacDonald, G. Billy, Barnicote, 1923
- —- At the Back of the North Wind, Macmillan, 1924
- —- The Princess and the Goblin, Macmillan, 1926
- Dickens, C. – The Cricket on the Hearth, Warne, 1927
- Macdonald, G. M. – Count Billy, Dent, 1928
- Stevens, F.L. – Through Merrie England, Warne, 1928
- Dickens, C.A – Christmas Carol 1931
- Kelman, J.H. – Stories from the Life of Christ, Nelson, n.d.
