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Andrew Lang

Male : Man of letters, also wrote poems, fairy-tales and fiction. Trans Homer and Theocritus. Authority on folk-lore. Married Leonora Alleyne in 1875 and became a freelance writer
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Selkirk

Date of Birth : 1844 Date of Death : 1912 Age : 68

Education : Selkirk GS, Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University, Glasgow University & Balliol College, Oxford
1872-1885
Ballads and Lyrics of Old France
(1872)
Ballades in Blue China
(1873)
The Library, with a Chapter of Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson
(1881 Macmillan) - Kate Greenaway
Helen of Troy
(1882 George Bell)
Rhymes a la Mode
(1884 Kegan Paul)
The Princess Nobody : A Tale of Fairyland
(1884 Longmans Green) - Richard Doyle
Offered in 1997 for £350
Custom and Myth
(1884 Longmans, Green)

1886-1890
Letters to Dead Authors
(1886)
Ballads of Books
(1886 Longmans)
Books and Bookmen
(1886 George I Coombes, NY) (1886 Longmans)
The Politics of Aristotle
(1886 Longmans)
In the Wrong Paradise & Other Stories
(1886 Kegan Paul)
Myth, Ritual and Religion
(1887)
Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose
(1887 LG) - A M Lynen
The Grass of Parnassus
(1887 Kegan Paul)
(Trans) Aucassin and Nicolette (1887 David Nutt, London) - 63 on Japanese paper
Grass of Parnassus : Rhymes Old and New
(1888 LG)
(Ed) Ballads of Books (1888 LG)
The Gold of Farnilee
(1888 Arrowsmith) - T Scott & E A Lemann
Letters on Literature
(1889 LG)
The Dead Leman and Other Tales from the French
(1889 Swan Sonnenschein, London) - with Paul Sylvester. 50 large paper copies
Prince Prigio
(1889 Arrowsmith) - Gordon Browne
Lost Leaders
(1889 Kegan Paul, Trench)
Old Friends : Essays in Epistolary Parody
(1890 Longmans) - 150
The World's Desire
(1890 Longmans) - with Rider Haggard
How to Fail in Literature : A Lecture
(1890 Field & Tuer, London)

1891-1895
Essays in Little
(1891 Henry & Co, London)
The Blue Poetry Book
(1891 LG) - Ford & L Speed
Angling Sketches
(1891 Longmans Green) - W Burn-Murdoch
A Batch of Golfing Papers
(1892 Simpkin Marshall) - et al
Homer and the Epic
(1893)
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia : being the Adventures of Prince Prigo's Son
(1893 Arrowsmith) - Gordon Browne
The True Story Book
(1893 LG) - L Bogle, L Davis, H J Ford, C H M Kerr & L Speed
St Andrews [1893 Longmans, Green] - T Hodge. 107 Large Paper
Cock Lane and Common Sense
(1894 Longmans Green)
Ban and Arriere Ban : A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
(1894 Longmans Green)
Border Ballads
(1895 Lawrence & Bullen, London) - 750. C O Murray
The Red True Story Book
(1895 LG) - Ford
My Own Fairy Book
(1895 Arrowsmith & Simpkin Marshall)

1896-1897
The Animal Story Book
(1896 LG) - Ford
A Monk of Fife
(1896 Longmans) - Selwyn Image
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
(1897 Longmans)
(Ed) The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897 Warne) (1898 Warne NY) - L Leslie Brooke
The Life & letters of John Gibson Lockhart
(1897 Nimmo) - 2 vols
Pickle the Spy or The Incognito of Prince Charles
(1897 Longmans)

1898-1900
The Making of Religion
(1898)
(Ed) The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898 LG)
The Red Book of Animal Stories
(1899 LG) - H J Ford
Homeric Hymns
(1899)
Prince Charles Edward
(1900 Goupil & Co, London) - 1500
A History of Scotland
(1900-7)
Gold of the Farmilee
(c1900 Arrowsmith)

1901-1905
Magic and Religion
(1901 LG)
The Mystery of Mary Stuart
(1901 LG)
Alfred Tennyson
(1901 Blackwood)
Adventures Among Books
(1901 Cleveland for PP circulation - 50) (1905 Longmans Green)
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery
(1902 LG)
(Ed) The Book of Romance (1902 LG) - H J Ford
The Valet's Tragedy & Other Studies
(1903 LG)
New Collected Poems
(1905 Longmans Green)
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
(1905 Chapman & Hall)
The Red Book of Romance
(1905 LG) - H J Ford

1906-1910
Homer and His Age
(1906)
Sir Walter Scott
(1906 Longmans)
Trusty John & other Stories from the Grey, Violet, Brown & Blue Fairy Books
(1906 Longmans) - H J Ford
Tales of Troy and Greece
(1907 Longmans) - H J Ford
Tales of a Fairy Court
(1907 Arrowsmith) - A A Dixon
The Book of Princes and Princesses
(1908 LG) (1908 LG, NY) - H J Ford
The Maid of France, being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc
(1908 LG)
(Ed) The Red Book of Heroes (1909 LG) (1909 LG, NY) - A Wallis Mills
Sir George Mackenzie
(1909 LG)
Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
(1910 LG)
The World of Homer
(1910)

After 1910
The All Sorts Stories Book
(1911 LG) - H J Ford
The Book of Saints and Heroes
(1912 LG) - H J Ford
Shakespeare and Bacon
(1912 Longmans)
The Strange Story Book
(1913 LG) - H J Ford
Highways and Byways in the Border
(1913 Macmillan) - Hugh Thomson
Tales of a Fairy Court
(c1918 Collins) - Arthur A Dixon
The Poetical Works
(Edited by Mrs Lang) (1923 LG) - 4 vols. 1075
Old French Title Pages
(1924 Grabhorn Press, SF) - 725
Highways and Byways in the Border
(1929 Macmillan) - with John Lang. Hugh Thomson
Aucassin and Nicolette
(1931 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Vojtech Preissig
The Rose Fairy Book
(1948 Longmans) - Ver a Bock
Tales of Troy and Greece
(1962 Faber) - Edward Bawden
Aladdin : Retold by Andrew Lang
(1981 London) - Erroll Le Cain

FAIRY BOOKS
(all published by Longmans, Green)
The Blue Fairy Book
(1889) - H J Ford & G P Jacomb Hood & Lancelot Speed
The Red Fairy Book
(1890) - H J Ford & G P Jacomb Hood & Lancelot Speed
The Green Fairy Book
(1892) - H J Ford from here onwards
The Yellow Fairy Book
(1894)
The Pink Fairy Book
(1897)
The Grey Fairy Book
(1900)
The Violet Fairy Book
(1901) - H J Ford. Colour plates included from here onwards
The Crimson Fairy Book
(1903)
The Brown Fairy Book
(1904)
The Orange Fairy Book
(1906)
The Olive Fairy Book
(1907)
The Lilac Fairy Book
(1910)
The Red Fairy Book
(1924 David McKay, Phila) - Gustaf Tenggren

READING
James Omerod : The Poetry of Andrew Lang
(1943)
Roger Lancelyn Green : Andrew Lang - A Critical Biography with a Short Title Bibliography
of the Works
(1946 Edmund Ward, London)


Related Writers

Arabian Nights Entertainments
Edward Bawden
Richard Doyle
Sir Walter Scott


See also

Arthur, King : Fiction & Poetry
Gordon Frederick Browne
John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Buchan
Children's Illustrated Classics
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(catherine) Kate Greenaway
John Lawrence
Charles Perrault
Robert Louis (balfour) Stevenson