Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book - Hardcover 1998
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| Management number | 286280 | Release Date | 2025/07/09 | List Price | $21.00 | Model Number | 286280 | ||
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LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK, Terry Jones and Brian Froud
Published by Barnes & Noble Books, 1998. This oversized book (9 x 12) is in very good condition.Illustrated in color throughout by Brian Froud (The Dark Crystal & Labyrinth). Text by Terry Jones (Monty Python). The book is designed with a distressed look.
This unusual book is the diary kept by Lady Cottington. Instead of pressing flowers in it, she pressed fairies (with a resulting look remarkably similar to watercolors). Handwritten and handsomely bound, this book is as surprising as it is pleasing. This isn't a children's book.
A parody of the Victorian obsessions with fairies and pressed flowers is presented in the form of a diary. In this instance, it is Lady Angelica Cottingham’s diary, which features pressed garden fairies. Or rather the psychic images of the fairies, who quickly turned it into a game, where they leaped between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most outrageous pos
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