To anyone who is a fan of Lord Dunsany or Susanna Clarke and who wants to read the most recent iteration of scholarly fae fantasy, I recommend "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett.
cgriswald 2 days ago [-]
> Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.
vunderba 2 days ago [-]
That's an amazing picture - sort of reminds me of the Carta marina by Olaus Magnus. [1]
Not going to lie, I did kind of chuckle a bit at the part labeled "The Water Babies".
But... seven years separate Dunsany's novel from this map, and as everyone knows, seven is an important number in Fairyland! I declare a Fae conspiracy.
bryanrasmussen 2 days ago [-]
well next year will be 70 years from Dunsany's death, so pretty much everything of his should be in the public domain then. maybe the map can be updated!
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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-...
http://www.bigmapblog.com/maps/map05/UDAFvbqzPTJKuttc.jpg
Not going to lie, I did kind of chuckle a bit at the part labeled "The Water Babies".
The artist is Bernard Sleigh [2].
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sleigh
But... seven years separate Dunsany's novel from this map, and as everyone knows, seven is an important number in Fairyland! I declare a Fae conspiracy.