Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Veairies beneath the Woodland Tree
Tiny winged beings and small animals gather beneath a twisted tree. A pale central fairy extends her arms while darker companions slip between roots and branches. The caption’s dialect lines identify their retreat underground in the poem The Veairies.
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Warwick Goble. "The Veairies beneath the Woodland Tree" [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 95. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-woodland-fairies
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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. The Veairies beneath the Woodland Tree. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 95. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-woodland-fairies