The land of enchantment
A 1907 London fairy-tale collection from Cassell, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, a British illustrator working in pen and ink for a general reading audience of children and adults. The four pictures are black-ink line drawings on cream paper, with scenes of a dramatic struggle with a crowd of figures, a chained captive held by a bearded man beneath a serpent, a hanging figure above a crow and a figure with a basket, and a pile of gold surrounded by rats; a designer can borrow their dense hatching, strong silhouettes and cream-and-black palette for folkloric or storybook work.
