Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book - Hardcover 1998

LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK, Terry Jones and Brian Froud

Published by Barnes & Noble Books, 1998. This oversized book (9 x 12) is in very good condition.Illustrated in color throughout by Brian Froud (The Dark Crystal & Labyrinth). Text by Terry Jones (Monty Python). The book is designed with a distressed look.

This unusual book is the diary kept by Lady Cottington. Instead of pressing flowers in it, she pressed fairies (with a resulting look remarkably similar to watercolors). Handwritten and handsomely bound, this book is as surprising as it is pleasing. This isn't a children's book.

A parody of the Victorian obsessions with fairies and pressed flowers is presented in the form of a diary. In this instance, it is Lady Angelica Cottingham’s diary, which features pressed garden fairies. Or rather the psychic images of the fairies, who quickly turned it into a game, where they leaped between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most outrageous pos