Adventures Among Books.
£35.00
Publisher
Longmans, Green and Co. 19 Paternoster Row.
Place
London
Date
1912
Synopsis
Third impression.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. xi + [i] + 312 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Extremities worn, including corners and with chips at head and tail of spine. Flyleaves browned and some foxing of preliminaries; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature, protected by tissue guard. The contents include R. L, Stevenson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ann Radcliffe, Saint Augustine, Smollett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paris and Helen, Enchanted Characters and The Supernatural in Fiction. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, anthropologist and folklore collector. He is known for his collections of fairy books, many named after colours and published 1889-1913.
[Stock No. 30268]
