Donald Grant Mitchell, Dream Life (1899)

(Source: geisterseher, via venusmilk)

artofnarrative:

Helen Stratton ~ The Lily of Life ~ 1913

Rie Cramer ~ Grimm’s Fairy Tales ~ 1927 ~ via

xineann:

The Fanny Cory Mother Goose - via

John Bell ~ 1894 ~ Cover Detail ~ Phantastes: A Faerie Romance by George MacDonald ~ via

Read the article with book review excerpts from the era, and see more at my blogspot blog, Art of Narrative.

Frank Schoonover ~ Joan of Arc ~ 1918 ~ via The Pictorial Arts

Mabel Lucie Attwell ~ The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley ~ First Edition ~ 1915 ~ via

Aubrey Beardsley ~ Book Cover ~ Under the Hill and Other Essays ~ via

BEARDSLEY, AUBREY: Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London: John Lane 1904. Illustrations with tissue guards. 4to. 70, [4, ads] pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, with gilt design by Beardsley.

Edmund Dulac ~ Book Cover ~ Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret) Rodolph Stawell ~ 1910 ~ full text via The Open Library

oldbookillustrations:

Front cover from English illustration, ‘the sixties’ : 1857-70, by Gleeson White, London, 1903.

(Source: archive.org)

Frederick Richardson ~ Book Cover ~ The Red Fairy Book ~ 1930 ~ via The Pictorial Arts

Minnie Dibdin Spooner ~ Book Cover ~ The Golden Staircase: Poems and Verses for Children, 1906 ~ via Archive.org