| Titles: | Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book & Album | |
| Authors: | Terry Jones & Brian Froud | |
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Two books:
- Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones & Brian Froud
- Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Album, by Brian Froud
Pressed fairies, like pressed flowers. How? Simple: fairy lands in open book, SLAM!, and voila, you have a pressed fairy. Now imagine a whole book of them, like a diary, with a running story line about a girl in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (The first book is about one girl, the second about two, actually. Any more details would be a spoiler, so you're on your own for that.)
If you search on amazon for these books, you'll find out there are more. In addition, some brief digging on google will also get you to this web site:
http://www.worldoffroud.com/
at which you can learn that the Terry Jones credited with the text in the first book is the same Terry Jones that was in Monty Python. You can also learn that the Frouds (Brian and his wife Wendy) appear to be artists who've made careers out of fairy art of various sorts.
Interesting, funny, sick, and worth the time if you can get ahold of a copy of these books. They are still for sale, as far as I can tell, with a 10th anniversary edition of the first book (Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book) coming out this year.
