Setanta, you are truly a God. Where did you find those illustrations? I used to own a silly abridged "Tales from Shakespeare" as a kid, illustrated by Rackham. The illustrations made the whole revisionist thing palatable.
http://www.p4a.com/itemsummary/29259.htm
Here's a marvelous sample of her work, this is
Little Red Riding Hood:
Sorry, Cav, but it ain't magic if you know how it works . . .
The Wilcox-Smith illustrations which i have posted here are copyrighted to Barnes and Noble, and posted for educational purposes, and not to be used for commercial purposes.
The Nicholson images are the property of the University of Pennsylvania.
(Come on, Cav, you know how to do this . . . )
I'm just too friggin' lazy.
At least this morning.
Can I get one more in there? My second-favorite after Rackham is Dulac:
(Trying to find more of his grotesqueries -- wonderful lines -- but most of it online seems to skew more towards pretty.)
Here's Miss Wilcox-Smith's cover for
Heidi:
I was incorrect earlier, all of the Jessie Wilcox-Smith images posted here are:
© copyright: ASaP of Holderness 03245 USA/www.americanillustrators.com
One of my favorite books as a child was Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Tanglewood Tales, which you may read
here, for free. It was first published in 1853, and is Greek mythology re-written for American children of the 19th century. Our copy was illustrated by Maxfield Parrish . . .
You can check out many of these illustrators at
Art Passions
Maxfield Parrish is another goodie.
And Kay Nielson.
(I have a shelf of books about this era of children's book illustrators, and another shelf of books BY this era of children's book illustrators.)
Why aren't any of the twisted things online? Some of the first Rackham images Set posted are what I have in mind, Dulac has some great ones... will check out that link.
And Crane. Love Crane.
And even Caldecott, though he's a bit pastoral for my taste. Did some amazing things within the technical parameters at the time.
I wish to express my profound thanks to The Lovely Miss Boomerang for the joy and beauty her idea has brought us all.
Thank you all for sharing your stories and these beautiful illustrations!
We always got our books from the library so while I have stories stuck in my head I don't really recall all of the illustrations.
I have, however, delighted in buying books for Mo and thrilling over the illustrations. A couple of my current favorites are from an old story called "The Little Red Caboose" and from a new story called "Frog Belly Rat Bone". If I can find some photos I'll try to post them here.
You are most welcome Sentanta!
You have all dislodged this memory:
The one "for keeps" book I had was "Alice in Wonderland. I also had a recording of the story done by Cyril Richard. These albums were thick and black and recorded only on one side - much different that the puny 45s I usually played on my close and play turntable. Very imposing.
I would be lazy and let Cyril do the reading as I flipped along through the illustrations.
Alice is still one of my favorite characters.
Yes, Tenniel!
I like Rackham's version better. I have sympathy for the fact that Carroll absolutely could not stand Tenniel nor his illustrations. He found Tenniel's Alice way too cutesy-pie, that blonde hair and the pinafore...
I didn't know about that Soz . . . can you get some piccies of the Rackham version?
Lewis should have seen the google image search--there were quite a few pornographic images . . . the world really sucks at times . . .
