The Rainbow Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew (editor)

ISBN 10: 0688108784 / ISBN 13: 9780688108786

Published by William Morrow, New York, 1993

About this Item

4to, 288 pp. Nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 099529

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Rainbow Fairy Book

Publisher: William Morrow, New York

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: hardcover

Illustrator: Illus. by Michael Hague

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st.

About this title

Synopsis:

A collection of more than thirty fairy tales for young readers of all ages

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.