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European Fairy Tales illustrated by Czech artist Mirko Hanak.
Fairy tale illustrations drawn in a style that only Edward Gorey could render.
One of my favorite things is coming across the artwrok of an illustrator who I was unfamiliar with before. Today that is an artist out of Riga named Diana Renjina. I absolutely love her fairy tale illustrations.
Virginia Lee's illustrations for a retelling of the Greek myth Persephone.
Nothing takes us out of our own world and then enlarges it quite like a book. (art by Abigail Halpin)
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (art by Charley Harper)
One of my favorite collections of fairy tales is Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. These are Igor Karash's illustrations for them.