Story Collection (page 39)

The Flying Trunk -- a story by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a young man flies to Turkey in a trunk and visits the Sultans daughter. 20th century

Little Snow White, mourned by the seven dwarfs, is about to be brought back to life by the handsome prince. early 20th century

Tell them once more the tale of Bethlehem, the kneeling shepherds and the Babe Divine. From a poem by Charles Kingsley. 20th century

Walter De LA Mare - 3
WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE poet and ghost story author Date: 1873 - 1956

Reading by Lamp
A young boy reads a book by lamplight Date: 1940s

Editor Using Phone
A Belgian editor takes down a story dictated to him by a reporter over the telephone Date: 1905

Kodak 1917 Advert
Keep a Kodak story of the children ! Date: 1917

Mother & Children C1875
Mother sits on a window seat and reads a story to her three children. Date: circa 1875

Spooky Stories
An old man tells creepy stories to children before they go to bed

Fergus Fionnliath
Fergus Fionnlaith hated dogs & threw rocks at them, but the powers that protect animals gave him a squint so that he always threw crooked. From the story of the Birth of Bran

Mother telling children a fairy tale
A mother sits on the sofa and tells her three children a fairy tale. Date: 1900

Sleeping Beauty - 8
The Prince sees the spellbound castle from afar, and a peasant tells him the story of its fate : being a fairy-tale prince, he resolves at once to see for himself

Becfola climbs a tree to escape a pack of wolves
A lady takes to the trees to avoid being eaten by wolves - an episode from the Story of Beefola. Date: Medieval

Leo Tolstoy Caricature
LEO TOLSTOY Russian novelist writing his story The Kreutzer Sonata as a pot-boiler Date: 1828 - 1910

Daphnis and Chloe (3)
Daphnis tells Chloe the story of the wood pigeon

British Ballad, Barthrams Dirge
BARTHRAMs DIRGE. British ballad by Robert Surtees (1779-1834) Telling the story of a womans mourning for her murdered lover

British Ballad, Sir Cauline
SIR CAULINE (Sir Cawline) British ballad telling the story of Sir Cawline who is in love with the kings daughter. He falls ill from it so has to do some great deed to be worthy of her

British Ballad, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET. British Ballad telling the story of Lord Thomas who is in love with Fair Annet and plans to marry her

The Bridge Builders
The title page of Rudyard Kiplings short story The Bridge Builders, as it first appeared in the Illustrated London News Christmas issue, 1893

Enchanted Hours by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in dungarees sits on a small, colourful stool engrossed in a good book

Once Upon a Time by Muriel Dawson
A sweet child with a pot belly and tousled blonde hair peers into a book with a red cover

A cold reprimand
A young lad faces a reprimand from a tall and imposing-looking London Metropolitan Police Officer after deciding that a naked swim in a London lake was the best idea for a sunny summers day!

Noahs Ark - Animals and the Ark

George Moore
George Augustus Moore (1852 - 1933). Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist"

Julliens Chimes Quadrilles, music sheet
Cover design for a music sheet containing the French conductor Louis Antoine Julliens Chimes Quadrilles, building on the success of Charles Dickens second Christmas book, The Chimes

Tam O Shanter Galop, music sheet
Tam O Shanter gallops across the bridge on his horse to escape the witches, on the cover of this music sheet, containing the Tam O Shanter Galop with music by Thomas Browne

Ivanhoe Polka, music sheet
Cover design for a music sheet of the Ivanhoe Polka, by Thomas Browne, depicting two medieval horsemen in armour on the bank of a river in the moonlight, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott

Music from The Yellow Dwarf, pantomime
Cover design for a collection of music from the pantomime, The Yellow Dwarf, a serio-comic fantasia performed at Covent Garden Theatre

Sentimental Postcard - Mother and daughters

Destruction of Kaleya - a four-armed Hindu God destroys a monstrous many-headed snake (Naga) - which is in the process of consuming two women whilst suspended over a river

A Mother reads a story to her children. Delightful watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet
L I Lyubimova, on whom the character of Vera is modelled in Aleksandr Kuprins story, The Garnet Bracelet, first published in 1911

Reading the papers in the rain
The streets are crowded with top-hatted gentlemen eagerly reading the main story of the day, umbrellas shielding them from the heavy rain

Alices Adventures Underground: Alice in the pool of tears
Alice swims in the pool of tears with a mouse and a fish. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground, his story that pre-dated Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Alices Adventures Underground: Alice swims
Alice swims in the pool of tears, followed by birds and animals. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground, his story that pre-dated Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Alices Adventures Underground: the door in the tree
Alice approaches a door in the trunk of a tree. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground, his story that pre-dated Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Alices Adventures Underground: Alice watches creatures go
Alice watches as birds and animals hurry away from her, leaving her alone. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground

Pinocchio meets Jack and the Beanstalk
A composite illustration of two childrens stories -- Geppetto making Pinocchio at a table (right), and the Giant falling off the Beanstalk (left)

The Three Little Pigs meet a white goose and chick
A composite illustration of two childrens stories -- a little pig builds a house (left), watched closely by a wolf getting ready to blow it down

Fairy Tales of Spring - Red Riding Hood by Pauline Baynes
Red Riding Hood illustrated by Pauline Baynes, one of four fairy tales reflecting the seasons. Little Red Riding Hood is distracted in her mission to take a basket to grandmother by the flowers in

Titanic news reports, magazines, sheet music
A selection of news reports, magazines and sheet music relating to the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912. It includes a copy of The Times newspaper, a twelve-page supplement of The Sphere

COCK LANE
The street was made famous in the 18th century by a sensational ghost story - which turned out to be a hoax

Morocco - Storyteller
A Moroccan storyteller entertaining a group of seated children before a large pavilion tent

German Looted Art Found
A story in the 1919 ILN featuring paintings taken by the Germans from the University of Colmar in Alsace during WWI

Prince George and war ambulance
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace with Mr Hansell

Cinderella dreams of a better life
Poor downtrodden Cinderella sits in the kitchen, dreaming of a better life (so distracted she misses the little birds tucking in to the supper for her evil sisters)

A scene inside a cafe
Flo: I say, do you believe that awful story about Doris? Elsie: Of course I do- which one? An illustration of two ladies catching up with the gossip inside a cafe

The Power of Imagination
A Grandfather laughs to himself as he reads aloud to his two grandchildren, both of whom have fallen asleep in his arms. The imagined fantasy world of the story unfolds behind him

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping