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Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: 10 and 3 quarter Anniversary Edition (Bonus DVD)

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What this book is all about is the incredible artwork, which shows a host of faeries, goblins, elves, and others. While to the 21st-Century eye these fairies look like the obvious hoax they were, at the time they were enough to convince Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of their authenticity (partly due to the fact, we suspect, that A. Not a lot of these books have images, so you're going to have to either read all them, or try to skim over them to see if there are any visuals you would like.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. The pictures are amazing and the overall book is hilarious but the actual story is weird and quite horrifying. States "First published in Great Britain in 1994 by Pavilion Books Limited," but this is the Turner American edition. These are more than I would ever probably be able to read through, but it's a nice feeling knowing that I have them for reference.I wanted to love this book, but the thought of smushing faeries, even if it's just to capture their essences (which really sounds dirty now that I think about it) put a bad taste in my mouth (which furthers that dirtiness earlier in the sentence, I guess). C. Doyle was a devout Theosophist and wanted very badly to believe in such spiritual manifestations). To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Fine in padded pictorial boards designed to simulate the look of a scuffed leather diary or notebook. I bought the whole series for the artwork but I never would have done so if I realized it went in this direction.

Personally, I love Terry Jones's strange yet very creative story and Brian Froud's magical artwork in this book. Realizing that the rape was in there more to show that the woman was being oppressed by society and disbelieved every time she mentioned the fairies (which were causing this. It's as if you drove a car at high speed through Fairy Land, and photographed the remains on your front windshield. When she's younger the writing style reflects that and I didn't realise how twisted her action of squashing the fairies was quite till the end.

Angelica doesn't go into detail, but enough to give you suspicions about what happens and it's not pleasant. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Confusingly, the Dutch title, translated back into English, is "Lady Cottington's Fairy Album", which happens to be the title of the second instalment of Angelica Cottington's adventures with fairies, published only in 2002. Designed to resemble a reproduction of the awful little girl’s actual journal, the book comes with dozens of wonderful drawings—courtesy of Brian Froud, the man behind the creature designs for the movies Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal—of fairies splattered across age-yellowed pages. They like to mess with Angelica and at some point things start to get out of hand in a sexual nature.

Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Angelica is obviously thought of as backward by her family and friends, but this only serves her up with a decidedly warped draw. The journal entries are so darn believable that I was sure it was at least loosely based on some fairy sightings.May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL BOOKMARK/WINDOW STICKER AND THE BROWN PAPER BAND THAT CORDONED OFF THE EVER SO SLIGHTLY RISQUE ILLUSTRATIONS AT THE BACK (SLIGHT MISS FOLDS) PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS. Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. Ethnology - Superstition, including witchcraft and magic"), as if Angelica was real and this was an actual non-fiction book on fairies. Fast-forward to 1994, when Monty Python member Terry Jones released this book, "proving" that the fairies did exist -- and that they had been pressed (squashed, really) like faded roses in the pages of a book kept by one "Lady Cottington. Dark humor by Jones (of Monty Python fame) The publisher (at the request of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies) notes that no fairies were injured or killed in the manufacturing process.The fairies are amazingly drawn, the splatter effect on the opposing page really give the impression fairies have been squashed between the pages. Lady Cottington’s journal is a coming of age story equipped with squished and squashed faires, pixes, and goblins! Around the time of World War One, two well-to-do British girls, cousins, were larking about with their cameras and claimed to have "discovered" fairies. Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in between the pages of her dairy.

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