I have an antique fairy picture book free online for children

I Love Lucy

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Mar 27, 2006, 10:43:24 PM3/27/06

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I never promote my site, all that work and it just sits there. I'll
just post it here and see if anybody wants to look at it. It's free for
personal use but the images can't be collected and traded, sold, etc.
The book is "A Year with the Fairies" by Anna Scott, illustrated by M.
T. Ross, bought it on ebay. There are about 47 charming illustrations.

http://www.white-peacock.com/Fairies/Fairies.html

leno...@yahoo.com

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Mar 28, 2006, 9:56:06 AM3/28/06

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Very lovely! I must get a copy. It reminds me of Ida Bohatta Morpurgo's
"The Flower Book," even though her work was more low-key. The
translator (it was originally in German) is June Head. Trouble is, I
can't find any Web images of it, but I certainly remember seeing it
years ago. Each tiny book of hers is a gem.

"A charmingly illustrated tribute to (personified) flowers in rhyme.
Flowers included: snowdrop, anemone, viola and dandelion, Madonna lily,
sunflower, rose, cornflower and poppy, water lily, fuschia, bleeding
heart, forget-me-not, weed."

(BTW, if you search for her, it's often better just to search under
"Bohatta.")

Another book is "The Gnome's Almanack." You can see that here with four
of the 12 illustrations (one for each month) when you click on the book
cover:

http://books.search.ebay.com/bohatta_Books_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8QQsacatZ267

Also:
http://www.trocadero.com/frohnsdorff/items/434612/en3store.html
(picture and a VERSE from "The Cloud Kitchen")

Or, if you like, here's a general collection of images.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22ida%20bohatta%22&sa=N&tab=wi

There was a museum exhibit in 2000 for her 100th anniversary - in
Hamburg, I think.

Lenona.

Kris Baker

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Mar 28, 2006, 8:56:56 PM3/28/06

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"I Love Lucy" <nom...@monkey.biz> wrote in message
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Why are you attempting to own the copyright on something that
(you claim) is in the public domain? Is this the old "I stole those
images fair and square" defense?

Kris

I Love Lucy

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Mar 28, 2006, 10:49:06 PM3/28/06

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"Kris Baker" <kris....@prodigyy.net> wrote in message
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The website design is copyrighted. I took the photos. As photos, they
are my intellectual property. I will register them as photos at the US
copyright office, but I don't really have to because I can easily prove
that I took them and that they are my property, nor do I necessarily
have to deface them by putting copyright on them. I did not steal the
photos. The book is in the public domain insofar as copyright is
concerned. Some say the cutoff for the new rules was about 1917 or
1921.

I don't know if I could reprint the book and obtain a copyright on it or
not. It seems some have done that, but I don't want to get in the book
reprint business.

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I Love Lucy

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Mar 28, 2006, 10:56:23 PM3/28/06

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<leno...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for all the nice links. I looked at all of them. Those books
are published too late to be in the public domain, but the pictures are
adorable. Besides, I am not a collector of childrens' books per se;
that one just caught my fancy. I do have several old childrens' books.
Most of them are not in the public domain and aren't worth very much.

I set out to do what the next poster has done, buy the older ones that
are in the public domain; how he came by his I'm not sure, maybe they
were in his family. Many of them are rare and very expensive. I
scrapped that project. There are so many, and competition for them is
fierce. I went on to other things. There were a lot of Ernest Nister
picture books on ebay that sold like hotcakes at pretty high prices.

Your post was interesting and enjoyable to read. I got totally burned
out with ebay and buying books a few years ago.
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leno...@yahoo.com

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Mar 29, 2006, 1:29:25 PM3/29/06

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And, speaking of charming illustrators and flowers, don't forget Walter
Crane's eternally delightful "Flora's Feast" (of course, that's still
in print). See here.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=%22flora's%20feast%22&sa=N&tab=wi

Lenona.

I Love Lucy

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Mar 29, 2006, 9:56:04 PM3/29/06

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<leno...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Yes, those are wonderful. I didn't know about Walter Crane until I saw
several of his illustrations on ebay. Lovely illustrations highly
sought after. They seem to have the designs of Art Nouveau with a
light-hearted touch.

I guess I'm like Alice in Wonderland. She didn't like books without
pictures. None of the books except the photo album in my grandmother's
huge old Victorian home had any pictures in them either, whole storage
room full of old books on shelves. Brrrr. It was cold in there in the
winter as it wasn't heated.

You seem very enthusiastic about these lovely older books. I like them,
too, but decided not to collect any more of them. I need to get rid of
a lot of the ones I have, some bought too impulsively. The contemporary
childrens' books don't do much for me with a few rare exceptions,.but
I'm always drawn to fine illustrations. I have the Alice in
Wonderland/TTLG boxed set from my childhood illustrated by Tenniel (not
worth much), but I recently saw and bought two copies of Alice in
Wonderland illustrated by S. Michelle Wiggins. I'm thinking of ripping
one apart and framing some of them.
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