Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.
The Princess Imprisoned in the Summerhouse from Andrew Lang's The Green Fairy Book
Allerleirauh. The Green Fairy Book. (1892)
What Came of Picking Jessamine. The Grey Fairy Book. (1900)
Morgan Casts Away Excalibur's Scabbard. King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table. (1902)
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
Rumpelstiltskin from The Blue Fairy Book, illustrated by Henry J. Ford.
"The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book
Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books
First edition, 1894
