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*LADY COTTINGTON'S
FAIRY ALBUM*
by Brian Froud
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At last, Lady Angelica Cottington returns, in this mysterious and hilarious sequel to Brian Froud's huge international hit
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book. In this quirky and seductive new volume, 15-year-old Angelica stumbles on an annotated photo album belonging to her long-dead sister, Euphemia. The revelations within tell of fairy enchantments, wanton romance, and bawdy trysts-and they cast young Lady C's ancestry into shocking doubt. Angelica responds to the album in true character, and her fits of fairy pressings and squashings instigate terrible (if weirdly entertaining) consequences. Along with its mysterious tale of Cottington family deviance, this extraordinary
artefact offers near-indisputable evidence of the existence of fairies in the form of letters and never-before-published Victorian photographs of actual fairies, authenticated by Brian Froud, the Cottington Archive, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies. Fairies defiant, fairies au naturel, and, of course, fairies squashed: they're all here. Without doubt, Lady Cottington's Fairy Album will radically alter the study of the fairies' heretofore-secret world.
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!
Book Description
The Cottington story continues with the recent discovery of
LADY COTTINGTON'S FAIRY ALBUM. Brian Froud, faery expert and somewhat reluctant consultant to the Cottington Archive, has verified that this rare Victorian photo album is the property of Angelica Cottington’s elder sister, Euphemia Cottington, who mysteriously disappeared when Angelica was a young child. This facsimile reproduction is exact in every detail, featuring what Froud believes to be actual photographs of fairies taken by Euphemia accompanied by a journal of her magical and somewhat scandalous and shocking exploits. The volume is also overflowing with a wild assortment of Angelica’s now-infamous pressed, flattened and squashed fairies,
LADY COTTINGTON'S FAIRY ALBUM delivers all of the
bawdy, hilarious and outrageous entertainment that Cottington fans worldwide have come to expect.
Every aspect of this book represents a deeper journey into the enchanted, fairy infested world of Angelica Cottington. And as exceptional (and sometimes shocking) the images are, the real treasure of the book may be the journal of Angelica's sister, Effie, as she records her strange, seductive and wondrous encounters with the fairy world.
British artist Brian Froud's Lady Cottington's Fairy
Album is the sequel to Froud's Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy
Book.
'Lady Cottington's Fairy
Album' is in every way 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.
This 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.
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proof of the existence of faeries. However little was known about the young girl shown in the photograph.... 
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.
