The Nights of Straparola
The Nights of Straparola is a 1894 London collection of Italian fairy tales by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, translated by W. G. Waters and issued by Lawrence and Bullen with illustrations by Edward Robert Hughes. The pictures are monochrome tonal plates with soft, feathery shading and dramatic lighting. A designer could take from them the theatrical staging of figures in interiors and rural settings, and the dense hatched textures used to build mood.
