Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764. Richard Barber.

Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764. Richard Barber. Boydell Press. 2013.

Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map. Joseph Nigg.

Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map. Joseph Nigg. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

The Book of Imaginary Beings. Jorge Luis Borges.

The Book of Imaginary Beings. Jorge Luis Borges. Penguin 2006.

1300 Real and Fanciful Animals from Seventeenth-Century Engravings. Mattaus Merian.

1300 Real and Fanciful Animals from Seventeenth-Century Engravings. Mattaus Merian. Dover 1998.

The Flight of Dragons.

The Flight of Dragons. Peter Dickinson. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1979. Another from the late 70’s. This is a fun book. Good illustrations, and information about the evolution of dragons, their life cycle, and so on.

Faeries.

Faeries. Brian Froud and Alan Lee. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1978. There was a spate of this sort of book in the late 70’s, and I didn’t pay much attention to them, except for the one about unicorns. I always through it would be a bit twee, but this is actually is researched and has creepy drawings of the wrong sort of fairies, and notes about a variety of related creatures.

Faeries and Demons and other magical creatures.

Faeries and Demons and other magical creatures. Edouard Brasay. Editions du Chene-Hachette Livre. (Barnes and Noble Books). Types of Fairies and related creatures (elves, undine, mermaids, dwarves and gnomes and so on), lushly illustrated with old drawings and paintings. Arranged by season: Month of May, Midsummer, Halloween, and Christmas. Gorgeous book.