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A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (1910)
Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (1910) is the 1st Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tales of Greek myth and legend that is illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.
In his Preface, Hawthorne provides an introduction to the history of the tales that, in this 1st Edition, include: "The Gorgon's Head"; "The Golden Touch"; "The Paradise of Children"; "The Three Golden Apples"; "The Miraculous Pitcher"; "The Chimæra"; "The Wayside"; "The Minotaur"; "The Pygmies"; "The Dragon's Teeth"; "Circe's Palace"; "The Pomegranate Seeds"; and "The Golden Fleece".
Parrish's illustrations are striking, adding his own visual interpretation to theses classic myths.
Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Prints
When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-in plates - in homage to the hand-crafted approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century.
Hand-finishing is used to replicate the visual appearance of a tipped-in plate and the images are presented on Ivory card stock (in the case of colour illustrations) or White card stock (in the case of monotone illustrations) with an accompanying envelope. We have left the cards blank so that you may write your own personal message.
Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print or an individual Greeting Card from this suite of images, we have provided options below. Of course, should you require a customised preparation, we welcome your contact through ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com.
In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful images from Maxfield Parrish.
The colour illustrations
Hawthorne's Preface to A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
The author has long been of the opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view. A great freedom of treatment was necessary to this plan; but it will be observed by every one who attempts to render these legends malleable in his intellectual furnace, that they are marvellously independent of all temporary modes and circumstances. They remain essentially the same, after changes that would affect the identity of almost anything else.
He does not, therefore, plead guilty to a sacrilege, in having sometimes shaped anew, as his fancy dictated, the forms that have been hallowed by an antiquity or two or three thousand years. No epoch of time can claim a copyright in these immortal fables. They seem never to have been made; and certainly, so long as man exists, they can never perish; but, by their indestructibility itself, they are legitimate subjects for every age to clothe with its own garniture of manners and sentiment, and to imbue with its own morality. In the present version they may have lost much of their classical aspect (or, at all events, the author has not been careful to preserve it), and have, perhaps, assumed a Gothic or romantic guise.
In performing this pleasant task, - for it has been really a task fit for hot weather, and one of the most agreeable, of a literary kind, which he ever undertook, - the author has not always thought it necessary to write downward, in order to meet the comprehension of children. He has generally suffered the them to soar, whenever such was its tendency, and when he himself was buoyant enough to follow without an effort. Children possess and unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them.
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