The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (Illustrator; Illustrator) 578 copies, 5 reviews
The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and… (Illustrator) 478 copies, 8 reviews
The Golden Age (Illustrator, some editions; Illustrator, some editions) 406 copies, 7 reviews
Dream Days (Illustrator, some editions) 330 copies, 9 reviews
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (Cover artist, some editions) 293 copies, 6 reviews
Poems of Childhood (Illustrator, some editions) 224 copies, 2 reviews
A Wonder Book / Tanglewood Tales (Illustrator, some editions) 218 copies, 1 review
Italian Villas and Their Gardens (Illustrator) 143 copies
Mother Goose in Prose (Illustrator, some editions) 112 copies, 2 reviews
The Knave of Hearts (Illustrator, some editions) 38 copies, 2 reviews
The make believe world of Sue Lewin (Illustrator) 3 copies
Peterkin (Illustrator) 1 copy

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Parrish, Maxfield

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Date of birth

1870-07-25

Date of death

1966-03-30

Burial location

The Oaks, Parrish Family Estate, Plainfield New Hampshire

Gender

male

Nationality

USA

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Birthplace

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Place of death

Plainfield, New Hampshire, USA

Places of residence

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Cornish, New Hampshire, USA

Education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Haverford School

Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry

Occupations

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Relationships

Parrish Jr., Maxfield (son)

Organizations

National Institute of Arts and Letters (Art ∙ 1905)

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