“His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody.”

—Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”

Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1905

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“The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well-behaved and always cough off the table, and so on, but after a bit they are not so well-behaved and stick their fingers into the butter, which is got from the roots of old trees, and the really horrid ones crawl over the tablecloth chasing sugar or other delicacies with their tongues.”

— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Illustration by Arthur Rackham 

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How Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.

Arthur Rackham, from The romance of King Arthur, abridged from Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, New York, 1920.

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oldbookillustrations:

Erda bids thee beware.

Arthur Rackham, from The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, London, New York, 1910.

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Arthur Rackham ~ Detail: By All the Nymphs that Nightly Dance Upon thy Streams with Wily Glance ~ Comus by John Milton ~ Doubleday ~ 1921

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Arthur Rackham ~ Sweet Echo ~ Comus ~ Doubleday ~ 1921

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Arthur Rackham - Illustration of Hermia from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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Arthur Rackham - Illustration of Daphne from Comus

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“Oh Grandmother, what big ears you have got,” she said.

Arthur Rackham, from Hansel & Grethel & other tales, by Brothers Grimm, New York, 1920.

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“Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw.”

Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie, published in 1906

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Into the Maelstrom by Arthur Rackham from Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination, 1935

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Arthur Rackham, illustration from Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination, ~1935 (via Golden Age Comic Book Stories)

Arthur Rackham ~ Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods ~ First Day of the Trilogy: The Valkyrie ~ 1910

 

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