1895 The Red True Story Book

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and eighteen plates. Collated complete. 'The Red True Story Book' is one of Lang's classic true story collection for children about prominent historical figures, mainly drawn from European history. With titles including 'The Life and Death of Joan the Maid', 'A Wonderful Voyage' and 'How Marbot Crossed the Danube'. One of the 'Lang's Fairy Books' series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children published by Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. Edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a prolific English artist and illustrator.