#the golden age of illustration

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Ann Macbeth, "Once Upon a Time" (1902)

via ninaclarebooks on instagram

[nocnitsa]

John Bauer- The Tale of the Moose Hop and the Little Princess Cotton Grass, 1913.

[notallsandmen]

I finally found the Kay Nielsen illustration that had been popping up in my head everytime I see the feral perfection that is Desire of the Endless — enjoy!

[leafylit]

The Lantern Bearers

- Maxfield Parrish, 1908

[frmulcahy]

There are so many fucking talented artists right now but instead of having a renaissance of the golden age of illustration, books have never looked uglier. Covers are minimal flat art or stock photos when they could be breathtaking

[vermilliongrey]

She burn’d with love, as straw with fired flameth... “The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare” (1915) illustrated by Charles Robinson

1915

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Aristophanes' Lysistrata by Norman Lindsay (1930)

[lepetitdragonvert]

An Eve in this Eden

1911

Artist : Charles Robinson ((1870-1937)

[enchantedbook]

East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Kay Nielsen, 1914

[scurviesdisneyblog]

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ɢᴏʟᴅᴇɴ ᴀɢᴇ (1937 - 1942)

[victusinveritas]

Karl Alexander Wilke (1879-1954)

The Devil's Grandmother After A Rejuvenation Cure

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Details from the Child Library Reader Primer (1923), illustrated by L. Kate Deal

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[nocnitsa]

[notallsandmen]

The diving scene reminded me so much of Edmund Dulac’s illustrations for The Little Mermaid (1910)

[thefugitivesaint]

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), ''Boys and Girls of Bookland'' by Nora Archibald Smith, 1923 Source

[texaschainsawmascara]

The Girl With The Pearl Necklace by Julija Stojanovic