@oldbookillustrations Well, my #Grimm version from 1908 -Cassell- is not so spectacular but it has some perks like being signed by "Nelly Ann" who sent it as a present to a special friend for Christmas...
Childe Wynd thrice kisses the Laidly Worm and rescues his sister the Princess Margaret.John Dickson Batten, from "English Folk and Fairy Tales" by Joseph Jacobs, New York: n.d. Illustrations #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/laidly-worm/
For the nautilus is my boatIn which I over the waters float.Warwick Goble, from "The Book of Fairy Poetry," Bombay, Calcutta, London: 1920 #art #illustration #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/nautilus-boat/
Tom Thumb.Arthur Rackham, from "Hansel & Grethel & Other Tales" by the Brothers Grimm, New York: 1920 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tom-thumb/
The hedge-hog was engaged in a fight with another hedge-hog.Peter Newell, from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1901 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hedge-hog-fight/
He found a rocket snugly hidBeneath the window casement.From "The Rocket Book" written & illustrated by Peter Newell, New York: 1912 #art #illustration #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/found-rocket/
Little jumping Joan.Kate Greenaway, from "Mother Goose: or, The Old Nursery Rhymes," London, New York: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/little-jumping-joan/
