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'Caught in the Spider's Web' from Little Folks Magazine (c. 1920s). An illustration by D. Newsome. #Spider #fairytale

Illustrations from 'Robinson Crusoe' (1884 edition) by Daniel Defoe. Originally published in 1719. “Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” Published by T. Fisher Unwin.

Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, illustrated by Thomas Blakeley Mackenzie (1887-1944). #Horse #ArabianNights #Folktale

Four 1914 illustrations by Kay Nielsen (Danish, 1886-1957). [1 & 2] The Widow’s Son [3] The Three Princesses in the Blue Mountain [4] The Lassie and her Godmother. From the "golden age of illustration". #Fantasy #Illustrator #ArtNouveau #WW1

Four illustrations from Pride and Prejudice (orig. pub. 1813 ) by Jane Austen. Artist = Charles E. Brock. From an edition published by Macmillan & Co. in 1895. #Austenite #Janeite #Victorian

Gulliver Between Gnomes (1910) by Maximilian Pirner (Czech, 1853-1924). Is he tall - or are they tiny? Perhaps that's what they are debating. #Giant #Fantasy #BookIllustrationOfTheDay

An illustration from 'The Three Princesses of Whiteland' (1914) by Kay Nielsen (Denmark, 1886-1957).
“So the man gave him a pair of snowshoes”. #Snow #Stars #Skiing

Three illustrations from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (orig. published 1892). #BakerStreet #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction

From 'One Thousand and One Nights' (Aladdin, I assume). The folktale was not part of the original Arabic text, it was added in the 1700s by a Frenchman who said it was told him by a Syrian storyteller. Illustrated here by Edmund Dulac in 1907. #ArabianNights #MagicLamp

Four illustrations from a 1884 edition of 'The Life And Strange Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner' by Daniel Defoe (c.1660–1731). Published by T. Fisher Unwin. #RobinsonCrusoe