The True Story Book. With numerous illustrations by L Bogle, Lucien Davis, H J. Ford, C H M Kerr and Lancelot Speed. From the Fairy Books series. This item is unavailable.The True Story Book. With numerous illustrations by L Bogle, Lucien Davis, H J. Ford, C H M Kerr and Lancelot Speed. From the Fairy Books series

First edition of this title which formed part of the Fairy Books series. Pages are xiv, [2], 337, plus one page publisher's advert. In publisher's gilt decorated cloth binding, all edges gilt, black endpapers. Externally good, slightly faded spine neatly relaid on cloth repair. Inside, some light scattered foxing but overall clean and binding sound. From the library of the late Dr Alan Gauld, an authority on Lang's work in the field of psychical research and a collector of Lang books, with his name and sticker to the endpapers. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, historian, and folklorist renowned for his collections of folk and fairy tales and translations of Homer. Many of the stories for the series were written by Lang's wife, Leonora Blanche Lang, though not credited.