Art, Symbol & Imagination
Fairies Bless a Sleeping Child
Small winged fairies gather around a sleeping child in a flower-filled cradle. Their transparent blue wings rise above the dark carved bed. The printed quotation describes the blessings they scatter over the sleeper’s head, introducing the protective side of the anthology’s fairy world.
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Warwick Goble. "Fairies Bless a Sleeping Child" [editorial title]. In The Book of Fairy Poetry, Edited by Dora Owen; illustrated by Warwick Goble. Inspected Longmans1920 anthology edited by Dora Owen, with Warwick Goble illustrations, contents, list of coloured plates and concluding poems. All contributions belong to the historical published anthology., 1920, Longmans, Green and Co.. Source scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-sleeping-child
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Complete historical source page; editorial descriptive title. Original colours, marks, margins and captions retained.
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Warwick Goble. Fairies Bless a Sleeping Child. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-sleeping-child