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    <title><![CDATA[Little Black Sambo, illustrated by Florence White Williams]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman, illustrated by Florence White Williams This story about a boy and four (!) tigers was written in 1899 and became an instant hit. It went through numerous reprints and corrections, including censoring and banning.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bookplates by Jesie Marion King]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 01:36:54 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[12 Bookplates by Jesie Marion King with Comments A bookplate is a decorative sheet used to mark ownership of one's book. In most cases, it's stuck at the front of the book, stuck at the inner front, or the flysheet, but it can also be used to mark the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hansel and Grethel]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:07:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hansel and Grethel, a Fairy Tale by the Grimm Brothers Illustrated by Franz von Pocci nad Leopold Vollinger The book was published by Sebaldus-Verlag, Nurnberg in 1944 The illustrations are signed by Franz Graf von Pocci (1807-1876) and Leopold Vollinger... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Young Pilgrims with illustrations by E. S. Hardy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:06:01 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Young Pilgrims by Charles Herbert, illustrated by Evelyn Stuart Hardy The Young Pilgrims is a historical children's book about the Pilgrims. It was a pretty popular book at the beginning of the 20th century, considering numerous reprints in the UK... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:34:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This story features a white duck (yes, she is a duck, not a goose!) who has only one wish - to be able to lay her own eggs. Let's see how Beatrix Potter tells about her adventures - by her words and her illustrations. The book was published in 1908 by... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oliver Twist, First Edition]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 06:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, written by Charles Dickens, illustrated by George Cruikshank Oliver Twist is one of the best works by Charles Dickens and a invaluable treasury of world literature. It tells a story about an orphan who raises... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Carrot Top by Jules Renard and Felix Vallotton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:28:15 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Carrot Top aka The Carrot Head (originally Poil de Carotte) by Jules Renard from 1902 is a classic work of children's literature that is not so different than today's works by substance yet very different by style. A story about all kinds of humiliating... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Old Nursery Stories with illustrations by William Henry Margetson]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:56:45 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Old Nursery Stories by E. Nesbit, illustrated by WH Margetson E. Nesbit is, of course, a pen name for Edith Nesbit who was at the time of publishing of the book already married (her surname was Bland), a mother of five (two adopted), and a well-known... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Geneva Window, the Scandalous Stained-Glass Masterpiece by Harry Clarke]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It was June 1925 when representatives of the Irish Department of Industry and Commerce approached Harry Clarke with the idea of designing a stained glass window for the International Labor Court in Geneva as a gift of the newly established Irish state.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Told in the twilight (stories to tell to children) with illustrations by Blanche McManus]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:57:32 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There are ten stories for children altogether in the book, each of them accompanied with a line illustration by Blanche Mcmanus. We'll present the stories with very short summaries and pictures by Blanche McManus. Undine, the water maid, who wedded a... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Diary of a Goose Girl]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 05:31:11 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin and illustrated by Claude Allin Shepperson was first published in 1902 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., today still active as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt from Boston. Kate Douglas Smith was born in 1856 to a lawyer... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hans Schliessmann, an illustrator, a caricaturist and master of silhouettes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:17:44 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hans Johann Schliessmann (1852-1920) was an illustrator and caricaturist from Austria. Born in Mainz, Germany, came to Austria five years old. Without any formal education in painting or design he volunteered at Xylographischen Anstalt Waldheim since... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[April Showers by Mabel Dearmer, illustrated by George Lambert]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:06:05 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[April Showers is a picture book for kids, written by Mabel Dearmer (1872-1915), illustrated by George Lambert (1873-1930), and simultaneously published by Frederick Warne and Co in London and A. C. Armstrong & Son in New York around 1890. It's a simple... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Aesop's Fables by Charles Robinson]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:52:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Fables by Aesop are one of the classic works which always attract numerous illustrators who want to show their own visions of well-known tales. Charles Robinson, a top illustrator from the Art Nouveau era got a project in 1895 when he was still at the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Les Contes de Perrault]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Charles Perrault wrote some of the most popular fairy tales ever. He was not the original author of Little Red Riding Hodd or The Sleeping Beauty or The Puss in Boots, but it is still more important than ever. than three centuries after Perrault's The... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The story of the three bears by Leonard Leslie Brooke]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:52:08 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was one of the leading illustrators at the beginning of 20th century. On one occassion critics commented on his works as showing the spirit of childhood with rare skill and the book about the Goldilocks intruding the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cymon and Iphigenia: The Story and the Paintings]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The story about Cymon and Iphigenia inspired numerous paintings among which Frederik Leighton's gots most attention. We'll present the story by a summary, offer two classic versions by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) and John Dryden (1631-1700), analyze... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beauty and the Beast, Picture Book by William H. Thwaites]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Noted William H. Thwaites, a talented American painter, illustrator, and engraver, one of the founding members of the American Society of Painters in Watercolor in 1866. We know that he, among other projects, worked on several books for Hewet's illuminated... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Richard Andre and Puss in Boots]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Richard Andre was a pseudonym and it was not the only one used by William Roger Snow. He was a prolific illustrator of books for children and pretty prosperous businessman whose life was full of ups and downs, yet never predictable or even boring. William... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:59:12 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This classic Russian fairy tale starts with a king leaving the castle with a queen waiting for him. She waits for nine months until she gives a birth to a beautiful daughter right when the king returns home. The same day the queen dies. After one year... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, illustrated by John Liston Byam Shaw]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 23:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This book is one of the many editions of Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb and first published in 1807 by John Goldwin in his Juvenile Library collection. The presented edition was produced by John Byam Shaw and was published in... ]]></description>
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