[note 2] Arthur John Balliol Salmon was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England on 1 June 1868.

Houfe wrote in his Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists (1996) that Balliol Salmon was one of the best pencil and chalk artists to work for the press in the Edwardian era.

[13] Balliol Salmon was chosen by art instructor Percy V. Bradshaw as one of the artists to illustrate "The Art of the Illustrator", the seminal collection of twenty portfolios demonstrating six stages of a single painting or drawing by twenty different artists and published in 1918.

Freeman states that Salmon's illustrations were jettisoned for comic cartoons in France and winsomeness in America.

The list is based on searches on Jisc library hub discover,[note 4] checked against the bibliography in Sims and Clare's Encyclopedia of Girls' School Stories.