Virginia Sterrett - "Old French Fairy Tales" (1920) [Spirit of the Ages Collection]

On the left, we show a rare copy of Old French

Fairy Tales that retains the original gilt-stamped

blue cloth cover and tipped-on colour plate.

To the right, we show Sterrett's title

page to Old French Fairy Tales.

Old French Fairy Tales was published by The Penn Publishing Company (Philadelphia) in 1920 and was the first illustrated

book to benefit from a comprehensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations prepared by Virginia Sterrett.

The title includes a collection drawn from the work of Sophie Feoderovna Rostopchine (1799-1874) - a 19th Century

Sterrett's colour illustrations to accompany Old French Fairy Tales are exquisite and her monotone illustrations have a

similarly unique style. Her illustrations have been compared to those of Kay Nielsen and while such comparisons are

high praise indeed, Sterrett's style captures the spirit of her age in idiosyncratic fashion that requires no comparison to

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-on plates -

in hommage to the hand-crafted approach typical of prestige illustrated publications

produced in the early decades of the 20th Century. Each card is hand-finished and

the images are presented on Ivory card stock (in the case of colour illustrations) or

on White card stock (for monotone images) with an accompanying envelope. The

rear of each card carries information about Virginia Sterrett, this wonderful suite

and the profiled illustration - we have left the interior of the cards blank so that you

may write your own personal message.

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with archival quality papers and inks - and also accompanied by information about

Virginia Sterrett, this suite and the profiled illustration.

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Old French Fairy Tales Princess Rosette and her Fairy Godmother	The Little Grey Mouse The Tree in the Rotunda Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvelous beauty	Blondine, Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon Blondine's Second Awakening She threw her arms around the neck of Bonne-Biche	Blondine, Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon The Journey and Arrival They were three months passing through the forest
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Good Little Henry The Vintage A part of the wall crumbled with a terrible noise	Good Little Henry The Plant of Life "What are you seeking, little one?"	Princess Rosette Second Day at the Festival They walked side by side during the rest of the evening	Ourson The Toad Again "Ah, ha! you are at last in my domain, little fool!"
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Ourson The Wild Boar Violette consented willingly to pass the night in the forest
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