No introduction should be neccessary for regular readers of this blog to the work of Arthur Rackham – one Englands greatest illustrators. The images I have for you today are not as familiar to us as his more celebrated and well known coloured illustrations. They are taken from a 1907 publication Land of Enchantment  – a collection of traditional folk tales – but were not produced specifically for this book. The drawings (and indeed the stories) originally appeared in a periodical named Little Folks between 1896 and 1902 Seemingly, the publishers thought them worthy of republication and Rackham was glad to oblige providing assistance with their selection.

Whilst I enjoy his more famous coloured works I am also a big fan of these pen and ink drawings. I think they have an almost “comic book” type of quality to them. Click on any image to best appreciate the full sized versions.

Land of Enchantment features 13 full page illustrations in all. View the full set at my Flickr photostream HERE. The book also features many smaller illustrations within the text and this week I’m giving my subscribers a free pdf of the book along with all 13 of the full page images extracted at 300dpi. If you would like to receive freebies like this from me in future,please enter your details in the opt-in box at the top of this page.