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Fairy Tales, Mythology, & Folklore

Making an appointment

Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact Christine Mannix (cmannix@ccad.edu).

Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.

Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies. 

Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales in Special Collections

Man on a flying horse kissing a young woman in a tower

The CCAD Packard Library Special Collections has a number of books in our Historic Art Book Collection on folk, fairy tale, and myth illustrated by Golden Age illustrators like Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogany, Walter Crane, and Virginia Frances Sterritt. This is YOUR collection, and we want you to take advantage of it! See the box above for instructions.

from Edmund Dulac's Fairy-book; fairy tales of the allied nations, 1916

Historic Art Books A-Z

Aesop's Fables, 1968, Illustrated by Elisabeth Frink
Clair de Lune, and Other Troubadour Romances, 1913    Illustrated by Evelyn Paul (France)
Edmund Dulac's Fairy-book; fairy tales of the allied nations, 1916
Fairy Flowers: Nature Legends of Facts & Fantasy, illustrations by Willy Pogány
Girl and the Faun by Eden Phillpotts ; illus. by Frank Brangwyn
The Iliad of Homer, illustrated by John Flaxman, 1805
Mythology-Sculpture. A book of French 17th Century engravings [Folio of garden statuary from Versailles, the Louvre, and the Tuilleries of mythological subjects] engraved by Gerard Audran, Jean Edelinck, Stephen Baudet, Jean Le Pautre and others.
The Night Life of Trees, 2006 by Bhajju Shyam (India)
Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse De Segur ; illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett (France)
Sleeping Beauty Told by C. S. Evans,  illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Uncle Remus : His Songs and His Sayings; new and revised edition, by Joel Chandler Harris (southern United States)
Waterlife, 2011  by Rambharos Jha (India)
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; with sixty designs by Walter Crane (various mythological stories)