John Tenniel’s Through The Looking Glass Illustration
John Tenniel’s illustration for Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” and “What Alice Found There”, originally published 1871 You can read “The Lion and The Unicorn” from “Through the Looking-Glass” by clicking here.
The Royal Picture Alphabet
The Royal Picture Alphabet is a free e-book produced by Project Gutenberg. It’s a lovely illustrated educational book which links each of the letters of the alphabet to a moral tale. Of course any book that features a unicorn on the front cover (top right) is always going to be an interesting read. The book [...]
The Lunar Unicorn & The Solar Lion
“The Unicorn itself is a lunar creature, and as such it constantly fights with the solar lion.” “The lunar unicorn is in perpertual confilst with the solar lion. One of the odlest reports of their antagonism occurs in the early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Septuagint), in which an immense mythic [...]