Flora's Feast: A Fairy's Festival of Flowers

by Walter Crane

Created by a celebrated late-Victorian era  illustrator and painter. Features 40 full-color depictions of ethereal figures clad in flowery garments, each of which appears with a whimsical verse. A treasure for admirers of fine book illustration, this charming volume will also delight flower lovers of all ages and anyone enchanted by fairies and make-believe.

Genres: Art, Poetry, Nonfiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1889

About the author

Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century.

His work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. Crane is also remembered for his creation of a number of iconic images associated with the international Socialist movement.

Reviews

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Art book in which flowers take on human form, personified with costume, posture, and mood. Made famous for its creativity and vintage aesthetic. Roughly 40 pages of art and small bits of poetry.

Crane’s style, rooted in the Arts and Crafts movement, is immediately recognizable: flat yet intricate compositions, rhythmic linework, and a harmonious blend of decorative pattern and storytelling. Ultimately, Flora’s Feast is best appreciated as an art object. It captures a moment when illustration, design, and storytelling were deeply intertwined, anticipating the aesthetics of early Art Nouveau. More than a children’s book, it feels like a gallery of concept art.

[Claudia Loureiro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este é um livro magnífico. As ilustrações são absolutamente mágicas.
Costumo usar copias das páginas nos meus trabalhos de scrapbook e no meu Book of Shadows.

Hardcover: 46 pages
Publisher: Windward; New edition edition (November 1980)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0711201021
ISBN-13: 978-0711201026

[Meran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful painted drawings of fairies, using flowers as a theme, and done to a poem.

[Carrisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whimsical illustrations by Walter Crane with a short verse on each page.

Originally published in 1889.

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[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

referrred to in Agatha Christie's autobography

Exquisite