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Henry Justice Ford

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This week’s publishers’ binding book is Arabian Nights’ Entertainment selected and edited by Scottish poet and novelist Andrew Lang. This edition was published in 1898 in New York and London by Longmans, Green & Co. It contains illustrations of the One Thousand and One Nights tales by English illustrator H.J. Ford, who illustrated several books by Lang. This book is part of our Historical Curriculum Collection of books for children. 

The cover features a deep blue background with a scene of a scaled, horned, winged figure flying through the night sky over an Arabian palace. The spine has the title stamped in gold at the top with the editor’s name underneath and a man carrying a basket on his head at the bottom. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager 

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Lancelot Brings Guenevere to Arthur, by H.J. Ford. Illustration for The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang.

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The emperor meets the three sisters. The violet fairy book. 1906 ed. H.J. Ford, ill.

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The May King

For the May Day Parade @queer-ragnelle

Post-Vulgate translated by Norris J. Lacy / Sir Mordred by H.J. Ford / Liar by The Arcadian Wild / Alliterative Morte translated by Simon Armitage / Annales Cambriae / Paradise Lost by John Milton / Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn / The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel / Post-Vulgate translated by Norris J. Lacy

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The hero of the tale, Prince Petru, overcame each of the Welwa in turn, bridled them, and thus freed them from their curse returning them to horses. Interestingly, the second Welwa was seven times as the one before, and the final Welwa, the youngest brother, was seven times seven times as strong as the second. The beast is also described strangely, no head but not headless, flightless but not alighting upon the earth, and a body that supposedly resembles anything except a living being. Described with contradiction, yet it also has the face of a bear, the mane of a horse, the antlers of a stag, and a polecat's eyes. For the purpose of physical clarity, I chose H.J. Ford's illustration of the beast as the basis for this entry.

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Illustraitions by H.J. Ford, from The Book of Princes and Princesses by Leonora Blanche Lang, first published in 1908.

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artoria redraw of an illust from "the book of romance" 1902 by h.j. ford

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H.J. Ford, What The Goblin Saw In The Student’s Room

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I said in the notes of my Fairy Godmother backstory that I based her history loosely off the story “Felicia and the Pot of Pinks” so here’s a doodle of young Joy over a vintage illustration of said fairytale by I believe H.J. Ford, according to Google x) Which I also found out is serendipitously in Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book, so I guess it was meant to be xD

(Realizing that the color scheme I gave her makes her look like Sofie Hatter xD)

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Artists: Charles Edouard Boutibonne, Edward Okun, Laura JamesDoris Prouty, Harald Oskar Sohlberg, Ralph Cahoon, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Arthur Wardle, Giovanni Segantini, Isobel Lilian Gloag, Edward Poynter, Edward Matthew Hale, Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Aino, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Anton Teofil Kwiatkowski, Carl Bertling , Robert Anning Bell, William Arthur Breakspeare, Gerard de Lairesse, Howard Pyle, Julyan Davis, Albert Hanson, Victor Mottez, Victor-Louis Mottez, Victor-Louis Mottez, Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly, Christine Wyatt, Maurice William Greiffenhagen, Lord Frederic Leighton, Frederick Appleyard, Edward Burne-Jones, Herb Ritts, Francesca Stern Woodman, David Drebin,

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Ilya Repin,Julius Hübner,Alexandra V.Bach,Knut Ekvall,Gustave Wertheimer,Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky,H.J. Ford,Elihu Vedder,John William Whiteley,Troy Howell,Koloman Moser,Norman Prescott Davies,

68 Works and tales of Mermaids in Europe, Asia and Africa, with Footnotes #6

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Illustration from The Brown Fairy Book

Author: Andrew Lang

Illustrator: H. J. Ford

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From the notes: this is an edit of an illustration from H.J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Yellow Fairy Book

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“With this mirror, you can view anything and anyone you wish for in the world,” the angel said.

“I thought you were going to help me get out of the tower,” Ingrid said.

“That is beyond my powers, unfortunately. All I can give you is this mirror.”

“So I can see what I’m missing.”

“Well,” the angel said. “Yes, I suppose. But it’s better than staring at the walls until a hero comes for you, isn’t it?”

“Hmm,” Ingrid said. She picked up the mirror. “I can see anything?” she asked. “No restrictions?”

“Yes,” the angel confirmed. “So if I wanted to see that guardsman with the curly hair when he’s at the baths, I could see that?”

“Umm,” said the angel. “I don’t think…”

“I saw him once in the courtyard with his shirt off,” Ingrid said. “I wouldn’t mind seeing the rest of him. I wonder if he ever visits the brothels.”

“Maybe I should take that back,” the angel said.

“Nuh-uh,” Ingrid said. “No takebacksies.”

New flash fairy tale for an old illustration

The Blue Parrot by H.J. Ford for The Olive Fairy Book, 1907

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Henry Justice Ford

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Little Wildrose, illustrated by H.J. (Henry Justice) Ford, from the Crimson Fairy Book, 1903