Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Hardcover Book

This vintage hardcover book, titled "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book," is a must-have for anyone interested in folklore and mythology.

The book, published in 1998 by Barnes & Noble, Inc. features 64 pages of stunning illustrations by Brian Froud and a humorous narrative by Terry Jones.

This is a reproduction of the diary of Lady Angelica Cottingham, which features pressed garden fairies. Or rather the psychic images of the fairies, who quickly turned it into a game, where they leapt between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most outrageous poses. The book claims to be the facsimile edition of the notebook of Lady Cottington who, it is said, took the infamous photograph of a group of fairies that was authenticated by Conan Doyle, but later discredited. She was determined to prove the existence of fairies and began to capture them between the pages of her notebook, in which she had previously pressed wild flowers.