A Frivolous Folly

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spectaculorum:

Dulac

lambandserpent:

Laurel Long

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 (via He Gave the Dragon a Mighty Blow - by Swedish artist John Bauer. Illustration from *Bland tomtar och troll* (Among Gnomes and Trolls), Swedish folklore and fairy tales.)

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Flashman on the Charge, by Frank Frazetta

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The Wood Between the Worlds by ~Kecky

my second favorite book after The Horse and his boy!!! which is my favoriteee!!

honkshu:

“Rendered helpless”

Self-Defence With An Umbrella (Daily Mirror, Jan. 9 1902)

“Unknown to herself almost every woman carries with her a perfect means of protection from either lunatic or hooligan when she walks abroad or travels, in the shape of that inseparable companion of womanhood—an umbrella or parasol!”

Konstantin Vasiliev -  “Swans”

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illustrationisart:

Albert Robida(1848–1926) : première leçon d’Aéroclette probably published in La Vie électrique.

“6. Attention à ne pas emporter les cheminées en passant!”

“6.Careful! Don’t tear off chimneys on your way!”

Albert Robida: auteur et illustrateur de génie.

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Sidney Sime maps a fantasy land

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by Willy Pogany, from Arabian Nights

oldbookillustrations:

How sir Lancelot was shot by a gentlewoman hunting.

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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