padded boards, illustrated in lavish color throughout by Brian Froud and signed with a large drawing by him on the half-title. Fine in padded pictorial boards designed to simulate the look of a scuffed leather diary or notebook. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all of them, but I might pick and choose some text and images for backgrounds on a homemade grimoire or something. When she's younger the writing style reflects that and I didn't realise how twisted her action of squashing the fairies was quite till the end.

All about fairies, these hilarious letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement.C. Doyle was a devout Theosophist and wanted very badly to believe in such spiritual manifestations). In Lady Cottington's Fairy Album, Brian Froud managed to add some real depth and poignancy to the story. Because of how the book was presented, how the beginning played out, starting with Angelica's childhood obsession of capturing fairies between the pages of a book, the underlying social commentary was just not readily accessible, and to me sort of difficult to actually pick up on. The pictures are amazing and the overall book is hilarious but the actual story is weird and quite horrifying.

Brown paper band still in place to protect the (mildly pornographic) final section, with the glossy fairy bookmark also still in place. Fast-forward to 1994, when Monty Python member Terry Jones released this book, "proving" that the fairies did exist -- and that they had been pressed (squashed, really) like faded roses in the pages of a book kept by one "Lady Cottington. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Terry Jones of Monty Python renown is on writing duty, and he gleefully presents the Lady’s entries as a series of increasingly disturbing snapshots of the life she leads smooshing fairies, goblins, sprites, pixies, any pint-sized magical creature she can snap her book shut on like a trap. Removable sleeve on "naughty" pages printed: "sealed by Lady Cottington for the protection of the innocent".Or rather the psychic images of the fairies, who quickly turned it into a game, where they leapt between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most outrageous poses. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. They like to mess with Angelica and at some point things start to get out of hand in a sexual nature. This, however, is a translation of the first book, with text by Terry Jones and artwork by Brian Froud. This is a reproduction of the diary of Lady Angelica Cottingham, which features pressed garden fairies.

I read this book when I was in middle school I think, but even now I look back at it as very well done and interesting. Having raised my daughter on Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairy images and poems, this send-up had me rolling with laughter. The story itself - the diary of the girl who captured the fairies - is often amusing and charming, but at times quite terrible. Frankly, I bought the book for the artwork (and the awesome pressed fairy stickers that came with it!when the book suddenly turned from funny-fairy-squishing to rape and more rape, well, it was a bit difficult to enjoy. Dark humor by Jones (of Monty Python fame) The publisher (at the request of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies) notes that no fairies were injured or killed in the manufacturing process. I would have taken the whole thing as a personal affront and refused to ever watch Monty Python again because Terry Jones would have been DEAD TO ME.