Tales Collection (page 15)

Jesper the Hare Herder
Jesper trades a hare for a kiss. (German story)

Jack and Jill with Margery and Freddy on the hill
Jill shows Margery and Freddy the view from the top of the hill, while Jack sits and nurses his sore head

Encounter with Jack and Jill
Margery and Freddy introduce themselves to Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill take a tumble on the hill
Jack and Jill take a tumble on their way down the hill -- the water is spilt and Jack injures his head

Jack and Jill filling a pail of water
Jack lowers his pail into the water while Jill prevents him from falling in by holding tightly to the back of his jacket

Nursery stories, cover design
Cover design of an illustrated book of nursery stories, showing a royal procession watched by a delighted brother and sister

Tom the Pipers Son grabs pig by tail
Tom the Pipers Son grabs a surprised pig by the tail

Tom the Pipers Son throws a bone for a dog
Tom the Pipers Son throws a bone for Old Mother Hubbards Dog, in an amalgam of two nursery rhymes

Freddy and Margery, brother and sister
Freddy and Margery discuss the characters in the nursery stories they have been reading

Margery and Freddy meet Jack and Jill
Margery and Freddy meet two of their nursery rhyme heroes, Jack and Jill

Simple Simon meeting a pieman
Simple Simon meets a pieman going to the fair

Robin Hood and his men on a music sheet
Robin Hood and his Merry Men depicted on a music sheet entitled The Musical Bouquet. The music itself is for a new song, The Merry Sherwood Ranger, composed by Alexander Lee to words by J Halford

Fairy Tales / Rapunzel
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your golden hair Rapunzel helps the handsome prince to climb up into her tower by using her long hair

Chaucer / Thomson
GEOFFREY CHAUCER English poet, writer of The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer / Darton
GEOFFREY CHAUCER English poet, writer of The Canterbury Tales

Riding Hood / Postcard
The wolf eats her - a photographic reconstruction

Murasaki Shikibu
MURASAKI SHIKIBU, Japanese courtier and writer, author of the classic Genji Monagatari (Tales of Genji) generally regarded as the first novel ever written

Fritz Reuter in Inn
FRITZ REUTER depicted among his stammtisch - his regular cronies - in the village inn; he is best known for tales of village life, and doubtless they supplied the material

Chaucer, the Miller
The Miller riding and playing the bagpipes

Marguerite De Valois
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS brother of Francois I, whose captivity by Carl V she tried in vain to alleviate : spurned by her relatives, she found solace writing tales and poems

Danish Bard of 1000
A Danish skalde (bard) sings the sagas of past glories to an attentive group of warriors

Sleeping Beauty / Briar
The witch shows Sleeping Beauty the spinning wheel (Grimm)

Rumplestilzchen / Briar
He dances gleefully around a fire, chanting his name. (Grimm)

Hansel / Grethel / Briar Ros
The witch and her cat find Hansel and Grethel (Grimm)

Red Riding Hood / Crane
The wolf knocks on the door while Grandma lies in bed (GRIMM)

Red Riding Hood / Harbour
Little Red Riding Hood (Grimm)

Snow White / J Harbour
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (GRIMM) The queen and her magic mirror

Poe / Tales / Eleonora
ELEONORA Eleonora & her cousin walk together through the Valley of the Many Coloured Grass

WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS
Rosamund, tied to a tree in Hyena-Full Wood, is saved when the tree un-gags her, thus enabling her to cry for help...etc

Mer-People / Sea-Lady
The sea-lady allures Maurice into the sea : blowing at his bagpipes he follows her, along with the crabs and fishes. (an Irish story)

The White Fawn
The lady and her white fawn are surprised by a strange apparition

The Six Swans Clarke
The princess carried by the swans - they are really her brothers, turned into swans by the wicked Queens magic

The Six Swans Havers
The princess and the swans - they are really her brothers, turned into swans by the wicked Queens magic

The Six Swans Anderson
The princess is about to be burnt when she is rescued by her brothers who until now have been turned into swans thanks to a magic spell

The Six Swans Boyle
The dumb maiden is shown to the people

Ugly Duckling (Hey)
The ugly duckling at home with the old woman and her other beasts

Thumbkinetta (Tommelise) stands on a water-lily leaf

The Three Little Men
THE THREE LITTLE MEN (here called dwarfs) IN THE WOOD The girl finds the strawberries beneath the snow, while the three lttle men watch gleefully

Sweetheart Roland
The witch goes an hours walk with every stride

The Storks
The father stork brings a frog to his nestlings in the story by Hans Christian Andersen

Snow White / Rose Red 2
The two girls and the dwarf

The Snow Queen
The witch combs Gerdas hair in the Snow Queen

The Witch and Gerda
Gerda and the witch

Knights Tale, Arcite
Arcite prays to Mars for victory

Chaucer, the Shipman
The Shipman gestures with his hand

Snow White Found
Schneewitchen (Snow White, or Little Snowdrop) is found by the dwarfs. She is not at all well, so they take her back to their cottage. (Story from Grimm)

Snow White Encoffined
Snow White, in her glass coffin, is mourned by the dwarfs. (Story from Grimm)

Snow White with Dwarfs
Little Snowdrop (Snow White) enjoys the hospitality of the kindly dwarfs, who are very concerned for her health

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