Partial border Illustration for "Little Mabel smiling lies", incorporating first line of verse with zoomorphic initial "L" in the form of a snake, and stylized hand lettering.
Originally in the Album of Illustrations for Archibald MacLaren's "The Fairy Family : a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe," London, 1857.
The words "Wee Fair Folk" from title "The Wee Fair Folk", comprised of 3 anthropomorphic initials, and stylized hand lettering.

Partial border illustration, incorporating first line of verse "Night rests upon Lorraine still silent night", with decorative foliate initial "N" and stylized hand lettering.

Title of verse "La Dame Abonde", with 3 anthropomorphic initials, and stylized hand lettering.

The words "When down" from the song "When down from the Norland" from “The Black Dwarfs”, comprised of zoomorphic initial "W" in the form of a flying bird, and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Korrigan" from the title "The Korigan", with anthropomorphic initial "K", and stylized hand lettering.

The words "When down", from the song "When Down from the Norland" from "The Black Dwarfs", with anthropomorphic initial "W", and stylized hand lettering.

The words "Dame Abonde" from the title "La Dame Abonde", comprised of historiated initials "D" and "A", and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Dame" from the title "La Dame Abonde", comprised of anthropomorphic initial "D", and stylized hand lettering.

Partial border illustration for "The Korrigan", incorporating first line of verse "It is a knight of Brittany", with decorated initials "I" and "B", and stylized hand lettering.

The words "When down", from the song "When Down from the Norland" from "The Black Dwarfs", with anthropomorphic initial "W" and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Moss" from title "The Moss-Woman", with historiated initial "M", stylized hand lettering, and foliate motifs.

The word "Brownie" from the title "The Brownie", with anthropomorphic initial "B", and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Pixies" from the title "The Pixies", with anthropomorphic initital "P", and stylized hand lettering.

Partial border illustration for "The White Dwarf", depicting seated woman supporting the supine torso of a man, with child seated to their right and view of castle through background window. Incorporated are the words "Sir Otto" with zoomorphic initial "Z" in the form of a snake, and stylized hand lettering.

Illustration of moonlit landscape with figures in foreground and castle in background, incorporating the word "Sir" with zoomorphic initial "S" in the form of a snake, and stylized hand lettering.

Partial border illustration of "Francisco and the Monk" from "The Monaciello", depicting the verse "And lifting up his streaming eyes, / Upon a presence strange they rest; / Stands there a Monk of dwarfish size, / In cloak and cowl of sable dressed". Incorporated are the first words of verse "From Naples", in stylized hand lettering.

The word "Monaciello" from the title "The Monaciello", with anthropomorphic initial "M" and stylized hand lettering.

The words "Elf Folk" from the title "The Elf Folk", with anthropomorphic initial "E" and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Leprechaun", comprised of anthropomorphic initial "L" formed by 2 male figures, and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Brownie" from the title "The Brownie", with anthropomorphic initial "B" formed by figure leaning on cane, and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Abonde" from the title "La Dame Abonde", comprised of anthropomorphic initial "A", and stylized hand lettering.

The words "The Neck" from the title "The Neck", with inhabited initial "N" and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Across" from the opening verse of "The Harper's Song": "Across the deep I only see", with inhabited initial "A", and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Merman" from the title "The Merman", with inhabited initial "M", and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Rusalki" from the title "The Rusalki", with anthropomorphic initial "R" and stylized hand lettering, and the word "Hill" from the title "The Hill-Man", with inhabited initial "H" and stylized hand lettering.

Come, children, gather round the hearth: Illustration for "The Fairy-Woman", depicting the opening verse " Come, children, gather round the hearth, / I promised you a tale to-night".

Alice tries to rise in vain: Partial border illustration for "The Pixies", depicting the verse "And with him from her humble bed, / The elder sister lifts her head", incorporating the words "The Sun with" from the first line of verse "The Sun with bright and cheerful face", comprised of decorated initial "T", and stylized hand lettering.

Mary and the Pixies: Partial border illustration for "The Pixies" depicting "Mary and the Pixies" with the words of the opening verse "Two sisters dwell in a cottage small", comprised of decorated initial "T" and stylized hand lettering.

Illustration of reclining dog on grass, gazing up at grave marker inscribed with the words "Faithful to death".

Partial border illustration for "The Vila", depicting the verse "A Vila, with uplifted, warning hand". Incorporated are the first words of verse "The Sun", comprised of decorative initial "T", and stylized hand lettering.

The words "Fata Morgana" from the title "The Fata Morgana", with anthropomorphic initials "F" and "M", and stylized hand lettering.

Scene on the Barbary Coast: Illustration for "The Fata Morgana" depicting captain and shipmates on the coast of Barbary. Incorporated are the first words of verse "I was", comprised of decorative anchor-shaped initial "I" and stylized hand lettering.

Grand feasting in the hill to-night: Partial border illustration for "The Trolls", depicting the verse "And on his left and on his right / A Troll in waiting stands, / Each holding, covered with napkin white, / A fresh dish in his hands". Incorporated are the first words of verse "Sweyn rides from market late to-night", with zoomorphic initial "S", and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Lutin" from the title "The Lutin", comprised of anthropomorphic initial "L", and stylized hand lettering.

A Fairy Seated on a Riverbank: Lunette-shaped iIlustration of male fairy with hat, seated upon a reeded riverbank, with drowned man floating by.

A Seated Fairy: Illustration of male fairy in plumed hat, seated upon grass with pussy willow beside him.

Beside: Illustration of (lame?) man and male fairy seated together in field, a bottle passed between them, with fence and haymakers visible in background. Incorporated is the word "Beside", comprised of decorative initial "B", and stylized hand lettering.

Illustration for "The White Dwarf" : Lunette-shaped illustration depicting winged angel kneeling over supine man, his head supported by her lap, depicting the verse ""Less drearily now will pass away / The long, long night, and the longer day, / And pleasant my bitter crust will be / When shared, companion sweet, by thee!".

The words "Fairy Woman" with anthropomorphic initial "F", and inhabited initial "W", and stylized hand lettering.

Conclusion: Illustration of man and woman, standing arm in arm in walled garden, pointing and gazing down at a body of water; a male fairy looks on at left. Written at top in pencil: "Conclusion".

Laird of Co: Partial border illustration for "The Fairy-Boy", depicting the the verse "Now rests his eye on the pennon gay / of a bark that rides in the open bay, ... But there a boy before him stands, / a tiny cup in his tiny hands". Incorporated are the first words of verse " The Laird of Co", with sylized hand lettering.

IIlustration for "The Korrigan", depicting last stanza of verse: "A bugle rings through forest glade, ... Sir Roland on the ground they see / With bare and humble brow, / His casque beside his bended knee, / Clasped in his hand his rosarie - / He well hath kept his vow.".

Illustration of Mabel and Mina for Part II of "The Black Dwarfs".

The word "White" from the title "The White Dwarf", comprised of zoomorphic initial "W" in the form of 2 birds, and stylized hand lettering. Incorporated is a drawing of a kneeling man, reaching out through the bars of his dungeon window.

The word "Black", with anthropomorphic letter "B", and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Brown", with inhabited initial "B", and stylized hand lettering.

On a bed of fragrant moss they lie: Partial border illustration for "The Hill-Man", depicting the verse "On a bed of fragrant moss they lie / That may with the softest swan-down vie, / The coverlet is a white fox-skin". Incorporated are the opening words of verse "For weeks had the snow, and the snow alone", in stylized hand lettering.

The word "Vila" from the title "The Vila", with historiated letter "V", and stylized hand lettering.

The words "No more shalt thou", from "The White Dwarf" verse "No more shalt thou in dungeon weep", comprised of decorative inital "N" and stylized hand lettering.

The word "Lo!", beginning word in verse "The Still-Man", comprised of anthropomorphic initial "L", and stylized hand lettering.

The flashing oars bent to my stroke: Illustration for "The Fairy-Woman", depicting the verse "The flashing waves bent to my stroke / As wave on wave I smote"

Illustration for "The Fata Morgana", depicting the verse "A quivering tongue of lightening flashed, / And, hissing, traced each stay and shroud, / While all around the thunder crashed".

The Black Dwarfs: Illustration of a wooded scene, 2 figures in left foreground, 1 seated, 1 standing.

Illustration for "La Dame Abonde", depicting the verse "While at the altar-stone the maid doth bow; / And there the King, anointed, bends the knee, / The crown upon his brow".

Long, long and stern the struggle: Illustration for "La Dame Abonde", depicting a battle scene. Handwritten in pencil is the verse "Back, back within the city's sheltering walls, / Foe fronting stands the maidens as of yore. / They come, they round encompass her, she falls, / A captive bleeding sore".

Illustration of moonlit cemetery for "The Brown Dwarf", depicting the verse "John Wilde in a furrow lies stiff and dead - / Stiff and dead lies John Wilde"

Illustration for "The Fairy-Boy" of man, woman, and child gazing out on a moonlit seascape, a sailing vessel in the distance, depicting the verse "A fond farewell, ye scenes so dear, / A long, a last farewell, I fear ... "

Sir Roland strides into the hall: Partial border illustration for "The Korrigan", incorporating the word "The" in right margin, comprised of decorative initial T" and stylized hand lettering, and depicting the verse: "Sir Roland strides into the hall, / Loud echoing his footsteps fall"

She is in the spirit-land: Illustration for "The Wee Fair Folk" depicting the "fairy court".

Partial border illustration for "The Moss-Woman", depicting the verse "They call to her loud and urgently: / But clinging about her the Moss-woman stands ... 'In pity, in pity, oh save my child!'". Incorporated is the first word of verse "Tis", comprised of decorated inital "T", and stylized hand lettering.

Illustration for "The Fata Morgana", depicting the verse "The ship upon her side was cast: / The deep upheaved and yawned: she sank, / And over her the waters passed.".

Illustration for "The Trolls", depicting the verse "His arm around the horse is passed / As if the girth to try - / Upon his shoulder it is cast, / Hoofs striking in the sky!".

Title page: Design for title page with vignette, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and gymnastic initials, and stylized hand lettering.

Partial border illustration for "The Rusalki", depicting the verse "Away upon the rapid wave / My child was swept, and none to save!".

Illustration for 1857 etched frontispiece depicting elf-folk in a moonlit wooded scene. The words 'whisper whisper" in white text appear at the top of the drawing, from the verse "Whisper, Whisper through the grove - / 'Tis the evening breeze / Telling all its tale of love/ To the aspen trees ... " from "The Elf-Folk".

The Laird of Linden Hall: Illustration for last stanza of "The Brownie", depicting the verse "He had repented -- late, oh late! -- / And in his woe had come / To die alone beside the gate / Of his deserted home: / But sadly by one stranger stood, / In cloak of russet-brown, / Of fashion old, with cape and hood / That to his waist came down". Incorporated are the words "He had repented -- late, oh late!", in stylized hand lettering.

Illustration for "The Moss-Woman", depicting the verse "They call to her loud and urgently: / But clinging about her the Moss-woman stands ... 'In pity, in pity, oh save my child!'", with the words "Tis the hour", from the opening verse "TIS the looked for hour", comprised of decorated inital "T", and stylized hand lettering. The word "hour" is crossed out in pencil, over which is written in pencil "Tis the looked for hour of noontide rest".

Partial border iIlustration for "The Black Dwarfs", depicting the verse: "And one with flagon hastens up, / The red wine at its brim; / And Ludwig takes the massey cup, / Embossed from stem to rim". Incorporated are the opening words of verse "The wind is up", comprised of decorative initial T" and stylized hand lettering, and the words "The Black Dwarf" with anthropomorphic initial "B", and stylized hand lettering.