Old-time stories
Old-time stories is a 1921 New York collection of fairy tales by Charles Perrault, retold by A. E. Johnson and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson for a general readership of children and adults. Its pen-and-ink plates show a costumed old woman beside a tiny figure, a bowing gnome before a gowned girl, a figure in a billowing dress running past flowers, and a girl leaning on a castle wall; a designer might take the sparse line work, large open margins, and fluttering fabric as models for whimsical framing.
