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Eye candy book illustrations featuring Sleeping Beauty:
Edward Frederick Brewtnall, 1880
Edmund Dulac, 1909
Arthur Rackham, 1920
Kinuko Y. Craft, 1984
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“Goblin Market” (1862) by Christina Rossetti is a narrative poem telling the story of Laura and Lizzie, two sisters tempted with fruit by goblin merchants.
Check out full poem here: https://t.co/rcMn2Raoxa
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham 1933)
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The Brothers Grimm first published Snow White in 1812. Contemporary artist Charles Santore illustrated their story in a 2010 book using a realistic style, while still endowing his images with enchanted touches of fantasy and magic.
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Cinderella was adapted by Charles Perrault in 1697, under the name Cendrillon. He added features to the story, such as the pumpkin, the Fairy Godmother, and the glass slippers.
His Fairy Tales book published in 1912 featured the beautiful works of Edmund Dulac.
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Four samples of dragons in fairy tales, captured in beautiful illustrations:
John June - The Dragon of Wantley, c. 1744
Warwick Goble - A Prince and Dragon,1910
Cecile Walton - The Dragon Who Kept Watch, 1920
Warwick Goble - The Mermaid and the Dragon, 1920
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Five images by English illustrator and author AUBREY BEARDSLEY, born this day in (1872-1898). #HBD
“Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”
*Self Portrait
*The Dancer’s Reward
*Remorse
*The Climax
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#HBD English artist and illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915).
Beauty and the Beast
Britomart
La Belle
Faerie Queene Book III
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#HBD Enid Blyton (1897-1968) wrote several children’s books, including a few containing fairy tales. She is, to this day, the seventh-best-selling fiction author of all time (estimated 600 million copies sold).
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Some charming classic illustrations from various books telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood and that Big Bad Wolf.
J. W. Smith
M. Tarrant
Tom Browne
Walter Crane
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Betta refuses to marry, unhappy w/her choices. Using large amounts of sugar, sweet almonds, scented water, musk, amber, jewels, gold thread, a trough & a silver trowel, she makes a statue of it, prays to the Goddess of Love, and the statue becomes a living man.
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