Goble's Fairy Tale Illustrations

A contemporary of Remington and Rackham, Warwick Goble produced lovely watercolor paintings that perfectly illustrated fairy tale subjects. Specializing in Japanese and Indian themes, he became famous for illustrating both magazines and books, including H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.

• Fontispiece: There, one day, he heard a voice, and presently after was surprised by the appearance of a mermaid. From "The Yellow Dwarf," The Fairy Book; The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew From The Water-Babies; A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, Charles Kingsley Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child She was the Queen of them all From which great trout rushed out on Tom He watched the moonlight on the rippling river We float out our life in the mid-ocean, with the warm sunshine about our heads The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! It was open The most beautiful bird of paradise He saw the fairies come up from below, and carry baby and cradle gently down in their soft arms Pandora and her box From Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, Grace James The Mood Maiden Green Willow The Star Lovers Horaizan The Story of Susa, the Impetuous, I Flower of the Peony The Maiden of Unai The Singing Bird of Heaven The Fire Quest The Espousal of the Rat's Daughter The Strange Story of the Golden Comb The Jelly-Fish takes a Journey Urashima Tamamo, the Fox Maiden From Stories from the Pentamerone, Giambattista Basile, selected and edited by E. F. Strange The Princess as the Ogre's Bridge ("The Flea") The Lizard showing Goat-Face the Palace ("Goat-Face") Grannonia and the Fox ("The Serpent") The Royal Proclamation ("The Booby") Rita riding on the Dolphin ("The Three Enchanted Princes") Marziella on the Sea-shore ("The Two Cakes") Cianna and her Brothers ("The Seven Doves") Lise, in the Snow, with the Casket ("The Months") The King and the Falcon outside the Palace ("Sun, Moon, and Talia") Nennillo and Nennella in the Wood ("Nennillo and Nennella") From Folk-Tales of Bengal, the Rev. Lal Behari Day She rushed out of the palace…and came to the upper world ("Phakir Chand") She took up the jewel in her hand, left the palace, and successfully reached the upper world ("Phakir Chand") The Suo queen went to the door with a handful of rice ("Life's Secret") In a trice she woke up, sat up in her bed, and eyeing the stranger, inquired who he was ("The Story of the Rakshasas") "You would adorn the palace of the mightiest sovereign" ("The Origin of Opium") He saw a beautiful woman coming out of the palace ("Strike but Hear") At dawn he used to cull flowers in the forest ("The Man Who Wished to be Perfect") The lady, king, and hiraman all reached the king's capital safe and sound ("The Story of a Hiraman") "What princess ever puts only one ruby in her hair?" ("The Origin of Rubies") Coming up to the surface they climbed into the boat ("The Origin of Rubies") The jackal…opened his bundle of betel-leaves, put some into his mouth, and began chewing them ("The Match-Making Jackal") A bright light, like that of the moon, was seen shining on his forehead ("The Boy with the Moon on his forehead") From The Fairy Book; The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew, Dinah Mulock Craik "Is it very far from hence?" asked the wolf…("Little Red-Riding Hood") A young girl of wonderful beauty lay asleep on an embroidered bed ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood") The only remnant of her past magnificence being one of her little glass slippers ("Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper") When the cock had now crowed for the third time,…the little men stole down and disappeared ("Adventures of John Dietrich") At last she remembered her dream, rushed to the grass-plot, and there saw him lying apparently dead ("Beauty and the Beast") The butterfly took wing, and mounted into the air with little Tom on his back ("Tom Thumb") "Are you not sometimes called Rumpelstilzchen?" ("Rumpelstilzchen") The lady then gave him a purse ("Fortunatus") Riquet with the Tuft appeared in her eyes the most elegant young man she had ever seen ("Riquet with the Tuft") So at night, when all were asleep, he led the trembling Aslog over the snow and ice-fields away to the mountains ("House Island") Jack…seized the hen, and ran off with her,…reached the top of the bean-stalk, which he descended in safety ("Jack and the Bean-Stalk") At evening-tide she climbed up into a little tree, and purposed spending the night there, for fear of the wild beasts ("The Iron Stove") "Madam," said he, “since I have had the honour to serve you, I know not any other happiness that I can wish for" ("The Invisible Prince") These beasts of prey were instantly turned into three little lambs ("The Woodcutter's Daughter") "You have but to give me a sack, and a pair of boots such as gentlemen wear when they go shooting" ("Puss in Boots") Avenant delivered up his phial, the owl flew with it into the grotto, and in less than half-an-hour reappeared, bringing it quite full and well corked ("The Fair One with Golden Locks") The fairy there welcomed her majesty ("The Butterfly") The king's daughter was overjoyed when she beheld her pretty plaything again, picked it up, and ran away with it ("The Frog-Prince") "I was accordingly laid in a cradle of mother-of-pearl, ornamented with gold and jewels" ("The White Cat") He flew in, perched on her shoulder, and expressed his delight and affection by a thousand caresses ("Prince Cherry") They were very friendly, however, and inquired her name. "Snowdrop," answered she ("Little Snowdrop") Stopping beside a fountain, she let her hair fall loose, and dipped her weary feet in the cool water ("The Blue Bird") The queen threw one of the shirts over each of them, and when the shirts touched their bodies, they were changed into swans, and flew away over the wood ("The Six Swans") By the care of the Fairy Tulip, she was not wounded ("The Hind of the Forest") From The Book of Fairy Poetry, edited by Dora Owen And, sweetly singing round about thy bed, Strew all their blessings on they sleeping head ("Good Luck befriend thee") The dun deer wooed with manner bland, And cowered beneath her lily hand ("Kilmeny") Down to the rocks where the serpents creep ("The Kelpie of Corrievreckan") Buy from us with a golden curl ("Goblin Market") Three spirits mad with joy Come dashing down on a tall wayside flower ("A Fairy Revel, before the coming of Guinevere") Oh! They do get away down under ground, In hollow pleazen where they can't be found ("The Veairies") Instead of crust a peacock pie ("The Three Beggars") Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! Now I hear them,--ding-dong, bell ("Ariel's Songs")Wake, when some vile thing is near ("A Midsummer Night's Dream")For the Nautilus is my boat In which I over the waters float ("Fairies on the Sea-shore")And I should look like a fountain of gold ("The Mermaid")What form she pleased each thing would take That e’er she did behold ("Lirope the Bright")And the padding feet of many gnomes a-coming! ("Goblin Feet")