The Wishing-Fairy's Animal Friends (1921)

Designs by Dugald Stewart Walker

To the left is shown a rare copy of The Wishing-Fairy's Animal Friends.   This copy shows the original blue-stamped orange cloth cover with applied pictorial paste-down.             On the right is the decorated Title Page showing one of Walker's lovely marginal monotone illustrations.

The Wishing-Fairy's Animal Friends was published by Brentano's Publishers (New York) in 1921 and examples of the

1st Edition - as illustrated by Dugald Walker - are among the rarest of his illustrated books.

Corinne Ingraham (the author of The Wishing-Fairy's Animal Friends) outlines the themes explored in her book in her

Foreword thus:

Tell a child stories of legends and of fairies, so that he can hear the music of the

little creatures of the woods, and can sense the throbbing of the flowers' hearts

and you will have given him something that will tint his whole life with beauty -

a beauty which sordid details of the world can not smother.

 

The young mind should early be impregnated with the poetry of nature; for

without doubt the impressions of babyhood remain the most poignant of life.

 

It is my conviction that only by constant repetition in the simple and direct

wording familiar to a child can big underlying truths be accentuated in his forming

mind.

 

With this in view I have tried in the following sketches to establish a certain

animal fellowship, including a moral significance which the little one will

unconsciously accept.

 

I should like to see in every nursery a song-bird, a bowl of fish and a pot of

growing flowers, - and without, the wide, wild fields and woods.

Walker's illustrations - in both colour and monotone (for the books is also filled with gloriously wonderful marginal

monotone illustrations) - reflect the conscientious magical intent expressed by Ingraham. They are quite simply,

enchanting.

Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Prints

For connoisseurs of Walker's work, we have prepared sets of 8 Greeting Cards displaying colour images from his designs for The Wishing-Fairy's Animal Friends and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear.               Code: DW WFAF CS(8) Price: US$40.00

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-on plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted

approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century. Each card is

hand-finished and the images are presented on Ivory card stock with an accompanying envelope. The rear of each

card carries information about Dugald Walker, this wonderful suite and the profiled illustration - we have left the

interior of the cards blank so that you may write your own personal message.

Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print of one or more of these images, we have provided some options below.

Each of these large format prints is also accompanied by information about Dugald Walker, this suite and the profiled

illustration.

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In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful images from Dugald Walker.

The colour illustrations

Frontispiece I shall give you the loveliest thing I can think of: that you should always be happy.	Cottontail and the Wishing-Fairy And the Wishing-Fairy gave all of them long ears.	The Giraffe I have a wish. Please give me a very long neck.	The Peacock who wanted too much I am going to punish you for never being satisfied; for always asking for more.
Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C1 (12x18) Price: US$60.00	Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C2 (12x18) Price: US$60.00	Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C3 (12x18) Price: US$60.00	Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C4 (12x18) Price: US$60.00
The Turtle's Wish The Turtle going patiently along with Mrs Frog riding on his back.	The Zebra and the Wishing-Fairy Stella waved her wand and the Zebra had his stripes.	Mr and Mrs Frog go back to Stella Don't worry, Mrs Frog's mouth is no larger than yours.	The Caterpillar who was tired Stella was coming nearer and nearer to them on her Butterfly.
Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C5 (12x18) Price: US$60.00	Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C6 (12x18) Price: US$60.00	Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C7 (12x18) Price: US$60.00	Reproduction on 12x18" sheet Code: DW WFAF C8 (12x18) Price: US$60.00