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 compiled by Frances Jenkins Olcott, published by Houghton Mifflin for children to tell, read aloud, and read on their own. The four illustrations are full-colour plates with a warm, painted look, showing fairy folk in woodland and village scenes, a moonlit night with small goblins by a fence, and an old woman meeting a lady at a cottage door. A designer could draw on their storybook palette of amber, sage and deep blue, and on the small, detailed figures set against rocky, mushroom-strewn ground.
