The Cottingley Fairies Alice and the Fairies; Iris and the Gnome; Alice and the Leaping Fairy; Fairy Offering Flowers to Iris and Fairy Sunbath by Frances Griffiths, Elsie Wright on Burnside Rare Books

Printed by Harold Snelling , c. 1920 . A complete collection of five photographs of the Cottingley Fairies taken by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright between 1917 and 1920. One of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, perpetrated by two young cousins age 16 and 9. Armed with a camera, the two girls set out to prove the existence of fairies, not knowing that this would cause a great controversy and fool such eminent