'They were three months passing through the forest.'
A Virginia Frances Sterrett illustration scanned from my own copy of 'Old French Fairy Tales', 1920.
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art nouveau, beautiful maiden, fairy tales, fantasy, giant turtle
'Violette consented willingly to pass the night in the forest.'
A Virginia Frances Sterrett illustration scanned from my own copy of 'Old French Fairy Tales', 1920.
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art nouveau, beautiful maiden, beauty and the beast, fairy tales, fantasy
'Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty.'
A Virginia Frances Sterrett illustration scanned from my own copy of 'Old French Fairy Tales', 1920.
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art nouveau, beautiful maiden, fairy tales, fantasy, fruit tree
'She threw her arms around the neck of Bonne-Biche.'
A Virginia Frances Sterrett illustration scanned from my own copy of 'Old French Fairy Tales', 1920.
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art nouveau, beautiful maiden, fairy tales, fantasy, golden age
'He saw the fairies come up from below, and carry baby and cradle gently down in their soft arms.'
A Warwick Goble illustration scanned from my own copy of 'The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby' (1909).
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charles kingsley, children, fairies, fairy tales, fantasy
'We will bring him two little ones, a brother and a sister'.
A William Heath Robinson illustration scanned from my copy of 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales', 1913.
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baby shower, birth announcement, childrens, fantasy, folk tales
'There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone.'
A Warwick Goble illustration scanned from my own copy of 'The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby' (1909).
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beach extinction, bird, charles kingsley, children, extinct species
'A part of the wall crumbled with a terrible noise.'
A Virginia Frances Sterrett illustration scanned from my own copy of 'Old French Fairy Tales', 1920.
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art nouveau, fairy tales, fantasy, folk tales, golden age
'The most beautiful bird of paradise.'
A Warwick Goble illustration scanned from my own copy of 'The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby' (1909).
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charles kingsley, fairies, fairy tales, fantasy, feathers warwick goble
'He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open.'
A Warwick Goble illustration scanned from my own copy of 'The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby' (1909).
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charles kingsley, children, fairies, fairy tales, fantasy
'My mistress' brows are raven black'. A Charles Robinson illustration scanned from my own copy of 'The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare', 1915.
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black haired maiden, charles robinson, elizabethan, fantasy, flowers
'The thing whirred up into the air, and hung poised on its wings,...a dragon fly,...the king of all the flies.'
A Warwick Goble illustration scanned from my own copy of 'The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby' (1909).
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charles kingsley, children, fairy tales, fantasy, folk tales