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TITLES TO GIVE AS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS - EITHER TO YOUR FRIENDS, OR
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*LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY LETTERS*
by Brian Froud
Recommended Retail Price: AU$39.95
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The Cottington Archive reluctantly announces that more information about the infamous Lady Cottington has surfaced: a scrapbook compiled by the fairy smasher herself of her correspondence with luminaries such as Queen Victoria, Annie Oakley, Igor Stravinsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lang, P.T. Barnum, and more. All about fairies, these hilarious letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she EVER STOP this nasty habit?!). And the fairies...ah the fairies...they too have done their part, sprinkling magic and mayhem throughout.
Verified and Presented by Brian
Froud & Ari Berk, Ph.D.
Includes newly
discovered fairy letters from J. M. Barrie,
Rasputin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William
Shakespeare, Wendy Darling, and more.
Book Description
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy
Letters, a facsimile reproduction of Lady Cottington's original volume, combines the nutty artistry of the first two
Lady Cottington books with delightful novelty components. Containing "actual" letters, invoices for "spiritual services," a fairy Valentine, an invitation from Alice Liddell to tea, and more, this newest interactive addition to the Lady Cottington series is the most innovative to date.
British artist Brian Froud's Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Letters
follows on from Lady Cottington's Fairy
Album, which is the sequel to Froud's
original Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy
Book.
The
background ....
Of course everyone is familiar with the famous photograph of the small girl surrounded by faeries, which caused such a sensation when it was first published in
The Regular magazine in 1907. It inspired many imitations and was circulated around the world.
While some sceptics dismissed it as a hoax, it was hailed in many quarters as the final, irrefutable proof of the existence of faeries. However little was known about the young girl shown in the photograph....
Lady Angelica Cottington was ridiculed after her secret photo of the faeries became the latest gossip around town. These creatures were making her life unbearable! Just because her hobby was pressing faeries instead of flowers, does not justify the torture her friends, peers, family and those pesky faeries have put her through!
Join Lady Cottington on her journey into the World of Faery during the Victorian Era!
There are a number of opening letters
within the book ... pictures shows closed, then open version.
Review :
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Letters, a facsimile reproduction of
Lady Cottington's original volume
This is a must have for Froud fans, this book is so incredibly imaginative. Kind of a pop-up, pull-out 3-D for adult faery lovers. Totally unexpected silliness (even for Froud), also the same touching sweetness as with all the Cottington
Book. Sweetness you say, a book about Squished Faeries? YES! believe it or not, very touching, I was quite surprised when I read the first Cottington, and it has continued on with this latest release, but with special little seals, envelopes to open and read, such fun, and almost like you really are seeing into some other person's personal past life. That's why I so carefully opened and removed the content of each little envelope, it felt like they may crumble away with age. I really was taken with this book as you can tell. But then don't take my word for it see for yourself. This book is special!
--Review
by Glenna L. Robinson "Faerynutt" (Whidbey Island, WA)
'Lady Cottington's Fairy
Album' - the sequel to 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy
Book'.
The first book introduced us to Lady Angelica Cottington, a teenager who can see and interact with fairies. Her experiences are all chronicled in gory detail, with Angelica 'pressing' fairies between pages of her diary. The end of the first book wasn't really an ending - it left the door wide open for a sequel, and
that is to be expected.
The next book deals with Euphemia Cottington, the sister of Angelica Cottington, who was separated from her family soon after Angelica's birth, for reasons no one seems to know. Angelica stumbles upon her sister's old diary, and she reviews each of her sister's journal entries in her OWN diary. This entire work forms
'Lady Cottington's Fairy Album'. The book has been very neatly designed.
The page on the left is Euphemia's original diary entry; the page on the right contains Angelica's thoughts on what her sister had written on the opposite page. The concept is rather amazing, considering that we're actually getting TWO Fairy albums, from two different authors, but here it is. Thus it follows, page after page of diary entries by Euphemia, immediately followed by Angelica's commentary.
The background still remains pressed fairies. They pretty much look the same, but there are a few new fairy varieties which reaffirm that the artist Brian Froud hasn't lost his touch for other-world art. In particular, I was fascinated by the handwriting of the two girls. Euphemia's is very studied and almost Victorian, while Angelica's is more exuberant and curly - that a book of this sort could spell out personality differences through subtle tools such as this is a joy to behold.
If you're a fan of graphic art, wonderful storytelling, and especially fairy art,
you should pick this up at once. It builds very deeply upon the basis set by Book 1, and in many cases it outshines the original.
Recommended Retail Price: AU$39.95
Hardcover: 48 pages
Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.2 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight:
1 kg
Publisher: Pavilion Books, a member of Chrysalis
Published: October 2005
ISBN: 1862057087
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