The Yeoman's Son

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This was one of Regulus's favourite stories as a boy. Since it has cropped up several times now, I thought I'd share. Consider it a gift for the Easter holidays.

Regulus received his copy of this book from his maternal grandparents, Pollux and Irma Black, for his fourth Christmas. It is a 50th-anniversary reissue of a beautifully illustrated edition of the work in which the artwork is, as Regulus has told Pansy, reminiscent of Ivan Bilibin's turn-of-the-twentieth-century Russian book illustrations or of the work of the French illustrator, Edmund Dulac. Reg was especially drawn by the page showing the yeoman's son in his billowing robes and tall boots and to the picture of the father, poised and proud upon his tall horse.

Sadly, the text offered here is without his book's beautiful illustrations.



( The Yeoman's Son )