Elizabeth Lincoln Gould. The Admiral’s Little Companion. Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company, 1912.
The Art of Book Design: The Admiral’s Little Companion
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Elizabeth Lincoln Gould. The Admiral’s Little Companion. Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company, 1912.
Andrew Lang. The Blue Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889.
This book was originally published in 1889, however, I have added the coloured frontispiece from the 1922 edition to this post. I did so because the illustration is the work of Henry J. Ford, who masterminded the art for the entire original Lang coloured fairy tale set. Otherwise, the 1889 edition contains more stories and illustrations than the edition from 1922.
Mrs. Power O’Donoghue. Riding for Ladies. London, W. Thacker, 1887.
Side Saddle only, ladies.
via: The Internet Archive
Lilian Whiting. Athens, the violet-crowned. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1913.
via: The Internet Archive
Kate Sanborn. Adopting an Abandoned Farm. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1892.
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe. Two Boys in Beaver-land. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920.
Mrs. C.C. Scott. Magnolias Abloom, and Other Stories. Little Rock, Ark., Press of Gazette publishing company, 1894.
Ethel Mary Brodie. The Rose Colored World, and Other Fantasies. New York, The Metropolitan press, 1910.
Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book, Illustrations by H.J. Ford. New York (etc.), Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.
This week’s fairy book is brown and it’s filled with the wonderful illustrations of H. J. Ford. This book, along with the remainder of the series (which I’ll be posting), all have a few coloured full-page illustrations. There are a few things I’d like to note. One is the presence of nipples on a bare-chested woman in the drawing on page 111. In fact, I find most of the drawings more suggestive. The princess’s dresses are sheerer and nipples can be seen through them. These drawings are reflective of the societal changes that happened during the Edwardian Period. The drawings also include the usual lions, bears, mermaids and ogres, along with a wonderful cock.
I’d also like to note that thanks to a comment by Crip Dyke, I’ve linked the Andrew Lang Fairy Books. The links are at the bottom of the page near the links to the books online source.
Elizabeth Gordon. Loraine and the Little People of Summer. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1920.
Ethel Maude Colson (Brazelton). The Story of a Dream. Chicago, C. H. Kerr & company, 1896.
Stella G.S. Perry. The Kind Adventure. New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1914.
Andrews Wilkinson. Boy Holidays in the Louisiana Wilds. Boston, Little, Brown, 1917.