Fairies I Have Met

About this book

Fairies appear among flowers, rivers and moonlit branches, sometimes elegant and sometimes wonderfully odd. Mrs Rodolph Stawell gives these elusive creatures distinct habits, personalities and little dramas of their own.

Edmund Dulac's colour illustrations are the great attraction of this Edwardian fantasy, their delicate figures set against rich, carefully imagined backgrounds. The accompanying tales give the pictures room to breathe, with encounters that feel half remembered from a child's dream. There is humour as well as enchantment here, especially when the small beings prove as temperamental as the people who discover them.