Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book, Illustrations by H.J. Ford. New York (etc.), Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.
This week’s fairy book is brown and it’s filled with the wonderful illustrations of H. J. Ford. This book, along with the remainder of the series (which I’ll be posting), all have a few coloured full-page illustrations. There are a few things I’d like to note. One is the presence of nipples on a bare-chested woman in the drawing on page 111. In fact, I find most of the drawings more suggestive. The princess’s dresses are sheerer and nipples can be seen through them. These drawings are reflective of the societal changes that happened during the Edwardian Period. The drawings also include the usual lions, bears, mermaids and ogres, along with a wonderful cock.
I’d also like to note that thanks to a comment by Crip Dyke, I’ve linked the Andrew Lang Fairy Books. The links are at the bottom of the page near the links to the books online source.
Frontispiece, The Brown Fairy Book
Page 15, The Brown Fairy Book
Page 22, The Brown Fairy Book
Page 27, The Brown Fairy Book
Page 29, The Brown Fairy Book
Page 39, The Brown Fairy Book
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Page 55, The Brown Fairy Book
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Page 346, The Brown Fairy Book
Link to last week’s Fairy Book, The Grey Fairy Book
Link to next week’s The BlueFairy Book
cover photo by: blackcatcaboodle
Drawings from: The Internet Archive
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