[PDR] Sir Arthur and the Fairies

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SIR ARTHUR AND THE FAIRIES

*In the spring of 1920, at the beginning of a growing fascination with 
spiritualism brought on by the death of his son and brother in WWI, 
Arthur Conan Doyle took up the case of the Cottingley Fairies. Mary 
Losure explores how the creator of Sherlock Holmes became convinced that 
the 'fairy photographs' taken by two girls from Yorkshire were real. *
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This volume is a rare edition in Dutch of the greatest of the anatomical 
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detailed anatomical illustrations superimposed so that lifting the 
layers shows the anatomy as it would appear during dissection.

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Different depictions of the Salome story from the Bible, held by the 
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    The Baby’s Own Aesop (1908)

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Walter Crane’s beautifully illustrated version of Aesop’s fables, 
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