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Father Tuck's "Fairy Folk" Painting Book
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One painting book entitled Father Tuck's "Fairy Folk" Painting Book, Complete with Paints and Brush, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., of London, ca. 1907. This book is part of Father Tuck's Patent "Paintbox" Series. The front cover shows a leprechaun, or elf, seated and painting. Above the image are the remnants of six watercolors--red, yellow, blue, pink, green and brown--on slips of paper. The front cover and the book's pages are cut away in oval shapes around the watercolors. Illustrations of other painting books in the Father Tuck's Series are shown, which lists this book as No. 2571. Nine color images from various folk tales and children's stories, including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Robinson Crusoe, appear within the book. Blank pages were meant to be used for copying. (The owner has used them for unrelated pencil and watercolor work.) All the illustrations are signed by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A ms. note "$8- 6448, 8 Lucie Mabel Atwell (sic) plates" appears on the front cover. The initials "V.W." appear inside along with the name "Vera W.".
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Album is bound in textured black material. Title "Friends, Old Friends." is embossed in gold on the upper center of cover, and a fleur de lis graphic element is blind embossed underneath it. Two embossed lines border the outer edges of cover. The number "15" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Contains photographs of London's friends, including Bohemian Grove cohorts, and some of Charmian London's family.
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Unidentified young man
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mssMI 1-1474