The Yellow Fairy Book - Hardcover

Blegvad, Erik

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067079385X ISBN 13: 9780670793853

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1980

Synopsis

A collection of fairy stories, the fourth in the famous series, illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, adds to a primary source of fantasy and enchantment

About this title

About the Author

Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews, where a monument can be visited in the south-east corner of the 19th century section.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067079385X
• ISBN 13: 9780670793853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Blegvad Erik
• Number of pages: 329
• Editor: Lang Andrew, Alderson Brian