Author: [Leonora Blanche Lang]: Andrew Lang (editor): Henry Ford (illustrator)
Publisher: Longmans Green & Co, London etc.,1912
Fifth impression of this book first published in 1891, the third book in the Fairy Books series. In decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt. Pages are xx, 348, 12 full page plates plus many other illustrations. Externally very little wear, inside very clean and binding sound. From the library of Dr Alan Gauld, himself an authority on Lang's contribution to psychical research, with his name and sticker to the endpapers. Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, historian, and folklorist renowned for his collections of folk and fairy tales and translations of Homer. Much of the content of the Fairy Books series was compiled by his wife.