A special trip requires a special post. Yesterday I went to my school’s special collections and looked at five rare children’s books. They brought out the books for me and I had to look at them on foam blocks and use rope weights to hold down the pages. I wish that I had done this much earlier in the year. Here are my pictures from it - this first book is Fairies I Have Met by Rodolph Stawell, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, published 1907. I looked at four different books illustrated by Dulac and found some of the illustrations strikingly different than the Dulac I am familiar with. You can see for yourself. A Fairy Garland was probably the strangest one. All images taken from the property of the Regenstein Library’s Special Collections Research Center.
