Books and their illustrators from my childhood number 2

Today’s book is Tales of Long Ago by Enid Blyton and illustrated by Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone (on title page as Johnstone). This book, published in 1965, was a great favourite of mine. As well as being interested in costume I was really into myths and legends. This book is half stories from Ancient Greece and half stories from the Arabian Nights.

Title page from Tales of Long Ago

Orpheus and Eurydice

Illustration from Aladdin

Proserpina

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