An old fairy tale : the sleeping beauty
An 1868 London and New York illustrated edition of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, adapted by J. R. Planché from Charles Perrault and illustrated by Richard Doyle, with engraving by the Dalziel brothers for a general readership. The pictures are pen-and-ink engravings with dense crosshatching, showing a fairy-tale court, a forest with a castle on a hill, and a crowd of small winged fairies swarming around a sleeping couple, which a designer could draw on for whimsical border or grotesque detailing.
