The book of elves and fairies for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading
A 1918 Boston and New York collection of fairy tales and elf stories compiled by Frances Jenkins Olcott for storytellers, reading aloud, and children reading on their own. The four colour plates show a cloaked old woman meeting a hatted elf-like crowd, a moonlit scene of small goblins clambering beside a fence and a farmer, a thatched cottage with a figure on a ladder, and a flowing-haired fairy with a wand among mushrooms. Designers can draw on their soft, layered watercolour palette, rounded folkloric figures, and naturalistic woodland settings.
