Designed to resemble a reproduction of the awful little girls actual journal. The book was in even better condition than i expected even including the original pressed fairy bookmark and lady cottingtons seal of modesty around the final few pages. Lady cottingtons pressed fairy book fantastic fiction. He also worked with author terry jones to create the everpopular lady cottingtons pressed fairy book. So i laughed myself silly when i sat down with lady cottingtons pressed fairy book which came to me by way of a. Buy lady cottingtons pressed fairy book with dvd hardvd by terry jones, brian froud isbn. Jones lady cottingtons pressed sellersupplied images. The fairies oracle working with the fairies to find insight. Their fauxvictorian book of various smashed, crushed, and smooshed fairies was a delight wonderful pictures by froud and hysterical text by jones. Of course, it also has a great deal of humor, for lady cottington kept some very strange company indeed.
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