The Lilac Fairy Book: Tales from Ireland, Scotland, India and Portugal
Andrew Lang
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 17 full-page plates by John William Waterhouse, John Atkinson Grimshaw and William Powell Frith. The last of Lang's coloured fairy books: Portuguese, Irish, Spanish and West African tales, among them the queen of the flowery isles, the shifty lad and the story of a very bad boy. Lang wrote in the preface that he had come to the end of what he could find worth telling. The Irish stories in this volume are the closest to the way they were actually told. Seventeen landscape plates, among them woodland scenes by John Atkinson Grimshaw and John Constable, answer the forest and castle settings of these tales.
Complete and unabridged, with 17 full-page plates by John William Waterhouse, John Atkinson Grimshaw and William Powell Frith. The last of Lang's coloured fairy books: Portuguese, Irish, Spanish and West African tales, among them the queen of the flowery isles, the shifty lad and the story of a v...
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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, critic, folklorist and historian born in Selkirk. He translated Homer, wrote on anthropology and psychical research, and edited the twelve coloured Fairy Books that carried the folk tales of the world to English children. His works include Custom and Myth, The Blue Fairy Book, Historical Mysteries, and Highways and Byways in the Border.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, critic, folklorist and historian born in Selkirk. He translated Homer, wrote on anthropology and psychical research, and edited the twelve coloured Fairy Books that carried the folk tales of the world to English children. His works include Custom and M...
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