Illustrations from The Princess and the Goblin (1920 edition)
The Princess and the Goblin is a children’s fantasy book written by Scottish author George MacDonald in 1872. It’s one of my favorite books, highly recommend picking it up if you haven’t read it already!
This edition, published in 1920 by David McKay Company, was illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, one of my favorite artists from the early 20th century. I’ve used a scan from the Internet Archive to pull her illustrations for the book out into individual images and then uploaded them here for you all to enjoy.
As they’re in the public domain, you can use them for anything you’d like including personal art projects. If you do use them, it’d be nice to credit the original artist (Jessie Wilcox Smith).
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Cover & End Papers
End papers are the bits between the cover and before the title page. Usually in kids books they’re illustrated or have an interesting patter, and that’s true for this edition!
Title Page
The New York Public Library (which is where this copy comes from) unfortunately put their embossed stamp right in the middle of this page…
Interior Illustrations
There should be 8 of these, but the scan that I was working with was missing one! How unfortunate…
Source
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1920): https://archive.org/details/princessgoblin00macd/page/20/mode/2up
