Violet Books
Illustration Plates for Anatole France,
E. F. Benson & Manly P. Hall
"Honey-Bee, princess of the dwarfs." Frontispiece by Florence Lundborg for Anatole France's romanticist fairy novella Honey-Bee (John Lane the Bodley Head, 1922)
"The watch tower which stands in the middle of the Castle of Clarides." Another of Florence Lundborg's illustration plates for Honey-Bee.
"He was going to Egypt & was having a spider's web painted on his head to keep the flies off." An illustration for E. F. Benson's fairy novella David Blaize & the Blue Door (Doubleday Doran, n.d., but the book was first published in 1918). The tale is illustrated throughout in black&white by H. J. Ford, famed for his Andrew Lang Fairy Book illustrations; but this frontispiece is by Thomas Fogartin (if I am reading the signature correctly).
A spooky frontispiece for a collection of adult fantasy tales, some of them based on traditional themes, entitled Shadow Forms: A Collection of Occult Stories (Los Angeles: Hall Publishing, 1925). The artist is Homer Conant. Such lovely frontispieces commonly have a tissue separating them from the title page; this book's tissue is embossed with a spiderweb design just for added eeriness.
