You'll end up thinking, dear readers, I have an endless collection ... No, not at all, we come rather late. And unless something unexpected encounter with the fortune or sudden irresistible heart, my collection just waiting to grow again. (Especially since I'm moving soon, and that I should not satiate my love for books. It's a difficult thing.)
So today we'll dive into this book very retro, or at least makes a little old time. I mean the book of fairy Beatrice Phillpotts. (A name which I find absolutely adorable)
Why old days?
How to see fairies, but old Edmund Dulac illustrations on for whom I have some love since I saw an exhibition on him at the library in Toulouse.
We therefore share the etymology of the word fairy, (Latin fate, destiny) through the plants that were known to enable the vision of the fairies, but also the famous story pictures of fairies (Published in a magazine and commented on by Conan Doyle , please!). There are also passages of Shakespeare (A Summer Night Dream, off course), poems, legends, songs and jingles. A joyful magical melting pot, very pleasant and informative. It's not really encyclopedic, it is more in the anecdotal, but it just makes it very pleasant. Of course, do not expect to see all the magical people mentioned, it is far from exhaustive things, but it is nevertheless a book that I do not regret in my collection.
And as usual, illustrations. (Brian Froud, but this is Dulac, Rackham also, and many others.)
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