A detailed recreation and reimagining of the illustration and artwork of the 1907 first edition cover design of The Olive Fairy, a collection of fairytales translated by Leonora Blanche Alleyne, edited by Andrew Lang, and originally illustrated by Henry Justice Ford.
Pieced together from fragments and photos with the help of some friendly book collectors, I decided to rescue this artwork before it completely fades.
(The stories can be found at Project Guttenberg, as the work is entirely out of copyright now.)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27826/27826-h/27826-h.htm
Now available as notebook/spellbook and as ArtPrint. Click on the images for the links:
I love the details I’ve been able to recover:
And so, I am off to hunt for a new fairy. Since this is part of a series, I might find another one that needs a bit of help.
Lydia Vvinters 