These are some wonderful fantasy illustrations by Alice Bolam Preston for the The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady, published 1920 by Little, Brown & Company. I really liked the style of these pages; they remind me a bit of art deco style, but subdued for easier printing (limited color palette, for instance).
To make this post, I downloaded the raw JP2 scans from the Internet Archive, converted them to JPG and then hand-cropped and resized them. This particular edition of the book, including its illustrations, are in the public domain now! So you can use them to make your own art, make little prints, and so on. There’s a great Halloween illustration included here, btw.
Click on an image to enlarge it, or else right-click and “open in new tab” to see the file itself. I’ve included the title page and all color interior paintings. The book scans I found didn’t have an illustrated cover unfortunately (I assume it was rebound for libraries and that’s what was scanned), but there’s 8 color illustrations to look through.
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Interior Title Page
Color Illustrations
I’ve organized these in order of where they show up in the book, and I’ve titled them by how they’re referenced in the table of contents.
“And now, Yvonne, to set your mind at rest gaze into the pool at your feet” (Frontispiece)
“Oh, you wicked creature!” Dame Grumble would exclaim when he began to shake the Apple Tree
For many days these three companions journeyed on through soft white clouds
From this bag the Night Wind begged a dream for the Little Tree
Look, look, dear Punchinello!” little Beppo cried. “I am no longer lame”
“Hide me, Little Sweep,” cried Red Cap. “My brother is after me”
So at last, after much thought, the goose girl did as the blue gander bade
It was the gayest company one ever could imagine, as they marched along
Source
Brady, Loretta Ellen. The Green Forest Fairy Book (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1920). Illustrations by Alice B. Preston. Scans from Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/greenforestfairy00bradiala/page/n7/mode/2up
