{"id":14390,"date":"2013-10-11T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T03:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2013-10-11T04:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T03:23:46","slug":"john-battens-celtic-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/11\/john-battens-celtic-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"John Batten&#8217;s Celtic fairy tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten22.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet more illustrations from John Dickson Batten, the pages this time being from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/celticfairytale00jacorich\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Celtic Fairy Tales<\/em><\/a> (1892), and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/morecelticfairyt00jaco\" target=\"_blank\"><em>More Celtic Fairy Tales<\/em><\/a> (1895). Once again, both books were written by Batten&#8217;s regular collaborator Joseph Jacobs. As is often the case where less familiar stories are concerned, they yield some striking imagery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten23.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten24.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten24.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten25.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten26.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten27.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten28.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten29.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten29.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten30.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten30.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten31.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten31.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten32.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten32.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten33.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten33.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten34.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten34.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten35.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten35.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten36.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten36.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten37.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten37.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten38.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten38.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten39.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten39.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten40.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten40.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten41.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten41.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten42.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten42.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"batten43.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/batten43.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/10\/john-battens-english-fairy-tales\/\">John Batten\u2019s English fairy tales<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/09\/john-battens-book-of-wonder-voyages\/\">John Batten\u2019s Book of Wonder Voyages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more illustrations from John Dickson Batten, the pages this time being from\u00a0Celtic Fairy Tales (1892), and\u00a0More Celtic Fairy Tales (1895). Once again, both books were written by Batten&#8217;s regular collaborator Joseph Jacobs. As is often the case where less familiar stories are concerned, they yield some striking imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[5272,5273],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-john-dickson-batten","tag-joseph-jacobs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3K6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}