Tales Collection (page 2)

The Key to the Moon by Florence Mary Anderson
Enchanting illustration showing a small child climbing a ladder to unlock a small door in the moon while a group of fairies and elves hover around in the starlit sky. circa 1920

High Above the Town by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of children with a baby fly high above a town in a winged cradle, accompanied by a fairy. c.1925

Illustration, The Cat and Mouse in Partnership -- The Cat stole away behind the city walls to the church. Date: 1909

Poe / Cask of Amontillado
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO Fortunato, dressed as a clown, is duped into a trip to the vaults

Goldilocks and the Three Bears, by Muriel Baines
Illustration, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, by Muriel Baines Date: 20th century

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Jesus and Girl
Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Jesus healing the Rich Mans Liittle Daughter

Sleeping Beauty by Felix de Gray
Scene from the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty showing the moment when the Prince finds Aurora asleep but looking remarkably perfect considering shes been out like a light for over a hundred years

Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E.T.A.) (1776-1822). German writer. Contes Fantastiques (Fantastic Tales). Edition carried

Cartoon - Swallowing a yarn
A little blackbird fails to consume a length of twine: " I can t swallow that yarn." Date: circa 1915

Poe / Tales / Telltale Heart
THE TELL-TALE HEART (Page footer: heart & head). Date: First published: 1842

Cinderella Changes
Her Fairy Godmother turns a pumpkin into a coach, and Cinders kitchen dress into a sumptuous gown

Chaucer, Doctor O Physic
The Doctor of Physic holds up a flask to the light

Poe / Fall of House Usher
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Roderick & his twin sister, Madeline, inside the house

Little Red Riding Hood
The wicked wolf disguises himself as Red Riding Hoods grandmother and asks her to get into bed with him

Cinderella & Prince
The Prince is charmed by this unknown beauty and offers her gifts of fruit. He hardly acknowledges the presence of the other ladies at the ball

Chaucer, Wife of Bath
So much of dalliance and fair speech

Grimm / Hans the Hedgehog
The king makes a promise to Hans the hedgehog

Poe / Purloined Letter
THE PURLOINED LETTER " Dupin stepped to the card rack & took the letter."

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White makes herself useful in the home of the Seven Dwarfs

Elder-Tree Mother
The mother is covered all over with elder-flowers

The Tinder Box (Clarke)
Illustration to the tale by Hans Andersen

Sleeping Beauty - 5
Beauty comes upon the old woman spinning in an upstairs chamber of the palace. The cat and the crow should be a warning to her that the old woman is a witch

Chelsea Pensioner and young boy
Chelsea Pensioner recounting tales to a young boy. 1891

Dick Whittington by Arthur Rackham
Dick Whittington arrives on the coast of Barbary, and everyone from the ship is entertained by the Moors. When they are invaded by rats and mice

At Midnights Stroke
Midnight strikes, and Cinderella flies from the ball

Rackham / Cinderella / G ma
Cinderella with her fairy godmother about to get into the carriage which was once a pumpkin

Maid Maleen / Rackham
They find the castle in ruins (GRIMM)

Edgar Allan Poe / Eleonora
ELEONORA Eleonora & her cousin in the Valley of the Many Coloured Grass. Date: First published: 1850

Chaucer Reads at Court
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Chaucer reads one of his Canterbury Tales to Edward III and his court, at Sheen Castle in Surrey

BOX SELLER
Band Boxes. A box seller passes Benjamin Tabarts Juvenile Library on Bond Street, London. Tabart was an early seller of fairy tales & nursery stories for children

Match Girl (Hey) 1921
The little match girl, dead of cold, is carried by an angel to heaven, where it is warmer without going to the extreme of the other place

The Owl (Grimm)
Opening illustration to the story of the Owl

Red Riding Hood Photo
Litte Red Riding Hood with her basket of goodies knocks on her grandmothers door

Chaucer, the Monk
The Monk on horseback, riding with spurs

Prince Cheri
Zelie and the fairy Candide

Jack Climbing Stalk
Jack, having grown the beanstalk from the magic seed given him by a fairy, uses it to enable him to reach the home of the Giant, whom he plans to kill

Beauty / Beast (Boyle 2)
Beauty discovers that love is the magic that makes all things fair - her love transforms the Beast into a handsome lover

Beauty / Beast (Anderson)
Anne Anderson gives us a truly monstrous beast : no wonder Beauty rejects the marriage proposals he makes every night at the supper-table

Beauty / Beast (Smith)
the beast is only friendly chimp !

Riding Hood / Steinbruck
Red Riding Hood encounters a friendly wolf in the woods who offers her his paw

Youth Learns Fear / Grimm
A boy fearlessly encounters two giant black cats on his journey to discover the meaning of fear Date: circa 1905

Nurse administering a large enema syringe to a man in bed with his lover. The secret lover taking an enema instead of the girl. The clyster. Le remede

Perrault in Powder and Patch - Fmaous and Familiar fairy stories in their proper guise - Bluebeard (La Barbe Bleue) - from the painting by Kay Nielsen made specially for The Illustrated London News

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Young David the Shepherd

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Daniel in the Lions Den

Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham
Robin Hood tricks the Sheriff of Nottingham (and robs him of his gold). circa 1195

Beautiful illustration showing a group of rainbow-hued fairies following a ship sailing through the clouds. c.1925

Jack and The Beanstalk by Margaret Tarrant
A scene from Jack and The Beanstalk picturing Jack and his mother standing at the bottom of the beanstalk looking up at the giant falling down the beanstalk and head first into the garden below

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