Helen Leah Reed. Brenda’s Summer at Rockley. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1901.
Cover photo via: Pinterest
The book is available to read at The Internet Archive
The Art of Book Design: Brenda’s Summer at Rockley
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Helen Leah Reed. Brenda’s Summer at Rockley. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1901.
Cover photo via: Pinterest
The book is available to read at The Internet Archive
Henrietta R Eliot. Laura’s Holidays. Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company 1898.
via: The George Smithers Library, University of Florida Digital Collections
A.A. Milne. Winnie The Pooh. Illustrations by Ernest A. Shepherd. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1961.
A.A. Milne. Winnie The Pooh. Illustrations by Ernest A. Shepherd. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1961.
A.A. Milne. Winnie The Pooh. Illustrations by Ernest A. Shepherd. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1961.
It isn’t exactly a fairy tale, but I’m feeling nostalgic and this is one of my favourite books from childhood. My mother read to me every night until long after I could read for myself and this was the book that I most often asked for. I loved the gentle ways of Pooh and his friends and my mom had different voices for each of the characters that brought the book to life. The edition above is from 1961 and it’s the one that we had in our little library. I wish I could say that I still had it, but when my parents divorced it went missing along with a lot of other books that were likely passed down to another child in our neighbourhood. [Read more…]
Isabella Ingalese. Mata the Magician: A Romance of the New Era. London, New York, Montreal: The Abbey Press Publishers, [1901]. First edition.
Cover photo via: L.W. Currey Inc
A later edition is available to read at Google Books
L.M. Budgen. Episodes of Insect Life. London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849.
via: The Internet Archive
Frances Emerson Judd. The Owls, Eve and Other Poems. Marshalltown, Webster and Burkart, 1888.
Canoe and Camp Cookery: A Practical Cookbook for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and outers. New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1885
via: The Internet Archive
John Harington Keene. Fishing Tackle. London, New York; Ward, Lock, 1886. First Edition.
Cover photo via: Abe Books
Available to read at The Internet Archive
Richard Le Gallienne. The Romance of Zion Chapel. Cover designed by Will Bradley. London and New York; John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898.
via: The Internet Archive
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Tanglewood Tales. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London, New York, Toronto; Hodder and Stoughton, 1919
This Fairy Tale Saturday we’re looking at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales again. We’ve already looked at the 1921 edition of the book with artwork by Virginia Sterrett and today we’re looking at an earlier edition with artwork done by Edmund Dulac. Dulac was a master illustrator of books during the art nouveau period and he is considered to be one of the masters of the style.
This week we have another fine fungal photo from Opus, who makes magic happen with his detailed macro portraits. He’s also sent us a photo to give some perspective and scale to the close-up work.
Opus plans to nurse the garden along for a bit and then return it to the wild.
Moss Garden ©Opus, all rights reserved
Moss Garden – overview ©Opus, all rights reserved
Edgar Allen Poe. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London : G. G. Harrup ; New York : Brentano’s, 1919.
Here’s Marcus again and he’s holding his first edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated by Harry Clark. Clarke was another of Caine’s favourite artists and many of the drawings that follow have previously been seen on this blog. Clarke’s illustrations in Poe’s Tales of Mystery are considered the best of any edition produced. According to the Public Domain Review:
…perhaps it is the Irishman Harry Clarke who has come closest to evoking the delirious claustrophobia and frightening inventiveness of “Poe-land”. For the 1919 edition of Tales Clarke created the twenty-four monochrome images featured below. Their nightmarish, hallucinatory quality makes you wonder if he was on something, until you remember the stories.
I couldn’t agree more. All 24 full-sized illustrations are included below the fold.
Illustrations via: The Public Domain Review
The 1923 edition of the book can be viewed at The Internet Archive. This edition includes 4 colour plates that were not part of the original 1919 edition. I haven’t included them here. They’re worth taking a look at and so are the smaller page illustrations.
R.D.Blackmore. Fringilla or Tales in Verse. Illustrated by Will Bradley. Cleveland. The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895.
Fringilla, Illustrated by Will Bradley. Back Cover.
Will Bradley was considered the “Dean of American Designers” during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Periods and he was the best paid American artist of the early 20th Century. Much of Bradley’s work was for magazine covers, advertising and posters, but his illustrations for this book, Fringilla, were considered to be among his masterworks. All the full-sized illustrations are below the fold.