About This Site
This site was created to present many classic illustrations created by artists such as Edmund Dulac, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham, Warwick Goble, and other great artists of their time, along with the stories for which they were originally written. The stories were written from the time around the turn of the century, up to the mid-1920's by authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Eugene Field, Grace James, and other famous writers of this time period.
Many of the stories on this site were found in books from The Jordan Collection of The Boston Public Library, and were retrieved to the rare books section, where I recorded the stories chosen, for your enjoyment. I hope it is as pleasurable for you as it was for me to put it together.
Bibliography
"About This Site" page angel: "Little Angel." Illustrator, anonymous.
Andersen, Hans. Edmund Dulac, ill. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder and Stoughton, Limited: London, 1922.
"Classic Children's Stories" title page angels: "Angel Sisters." Illustrator, anonymous.
Field, Eugene (1850-1895). Maxfield Parrish, ill. Poems of Childhood. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1904.
"Golden Pages Illustration," Chapter I & II. The Air & Sky Collection: Indiana, 1996.
James, Grace. Warwick Goble, ill. Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales. Macmillan and Company., Limited: London, 1923.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Jessie Willcox Smith, ill. A Child's Garden of Verses.
This web site was designed and
is maintained by:
Melissa Northup
Boston, MA