Freddie Mercury—personal library | Illustrated books on fantasy and fairytales, 17 volumes

Freddie Mercury—personal library

Books on fantasy and fairytales, 17 volumes

comprising:

Edmund Dulac. Picture-book for the French Red Cross

Edmund Dulac. Stories from the Arabian Nights

Arthur Rackham. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

Henry Gilbert. King Arthur's Knights, illustrated by Walter Crane

C.M. Barker. Flower Fairies of the Trees

C.M. Barker. A Flower Fairy Alphabet

C.M. Barker. Flower Fairies of the Autumn 

Woodward and O'Connor. The Peter Pan Picture-book, 1930

Joseph Jacobs. Celtic Fairytales, 1971

Lord Dunsany. Gods, Men and Ghosts, 1972

Froud and Lee. Faeries, 1978

Fred Gettings. Arthur Rackham, 1975, inscribed to Freddie by his sister Kashmira and her husband for his birthday, 1975

Frank Frazetta. Fantastic Art, 1975

B.N. Byfield. The Book of the Weird, 1973

Welleran Poltarnees. All Mirrors are Magic Mirrors, 1972

P. Allderiege. The Late Richard Dadd, 1974

David Greysmith. Richard Dadd, 1973

"We don't go in for half measures and I'm very hard with myself. There're no compromises. If I thought a song wasn't quite right, I'd discard it. I'm very intricate and delicate. You can see that in my paintings. I love painters like Richard Dadd, Mucha and Dali, and I love Arthur Rackham." (Freddie Mercury, interview in Melody Maker, December 1974)