1903 Rare Book - The Animal Story Book by Andrew Lang Illustrated by H. J. FORD.
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Author: Andrew Lang. (Henry Justice Ford, illustrator).
Title: The Animal Story Book.
Language: Text in English.
Publisher : London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903. New Impression (stated).
Size : 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages : xiv-400 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, upper margin of 3 "Preface" pages reinforced with paper by a previous owner).
Illustrated: Beautifully and profusely illustrated by Henry Justice Ford.
The book: Nice Edition of Animal Story Book edited by Andrew Lang - A collection of true and fictional tales from various sources about wild, domestic, and mythical animals.
The author: Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
The illustrator: Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.