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London:: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1908.. publisher's blue pictorial cloth.. Front free endpaper lacking; light use to cloth; cloth decoration a bit rubbed, particularly at the spine.. 8vo,. With 8 coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H. J. ford..

39 Paternoster Row, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1908. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Ford, H. J. Truee Tales of Royalty & Rulers including "Napoleon", "Henriette the Siege Baby", "Richard the Fearless"and many more. Beautifully illustrated with 8 Full-Page Colour Platees and other In-Text and Full Page B&W illustrations by H. J. Ford. Frontispiece Illustration "Camilla Tells Her Tale", protected by Tissue Guard. Vignette Illustration on Title Page. Title Page dated 1908. Blue cloth cover, with lovely Gilt illustration of a young Prince & Princess gazing up at an Angel presenting a Crown. Gilt lettering and Illustration of a Sword, Crown & Roses, on spine. All page edges Gilt. 361 Pages + adverts, 620g, 7 1/2" Tall. Somet edgewear, mainly at tips of corners and spine ends. Binding a little fragile in places. Hinges cracked and reinforced with white hinge tape. Gift inscription, dated 1908, on ffep and small handwritten label on… Read More

London, England: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1926. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ford, H. J.. The wife of the famed editor of numerous books of "color" fairy tales offers her own collection of 14 delightful tales of princes & princesses, "all true stories.written out of old books of history." Each is brilliantly illustrated with 8 colored plates by illustrator H. J. Ford, with numerous other small pen-and-ink illustrations throughout the book's 361 pages. Preface by Andrew Lang himself. First published in 1908, this is the Jan. 1926 printing (the fifth) of that FIRST EDITION. Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages mildly tanned. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. All plates vividly colored with white margins: no foxing. Blue cloth-covered boards have a lighter blue design featuring a prince, princess, & fairy to front cover & lettering/sword design to spine. Design is crisp… Read More

Longmans, Green, London., 1908. First edition. Octavo. pp xx, 361, [6] adverts. Seven page preface by Andrew Lang. Fourteen ''true'' stories, the first being that of Napoleon. Eight colour plates and numerous other illustrations by H.J. Ford. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth. All edges gilt.Free endpapers spotted. Ownership inscription on verso of front pastedown. Minor insect damage to lower edge of rear endpaper and pastedown. Very good indeed, bright copy.

Very Good. 1908 first ed. Lang, Andrew [et ux]. THE BOOK OF PRINCES AND PRINCESSES. By Mrs. Lang. Edited by Andrew Lang. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1908. 8vo, 361pp. Original pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt. Slightest foxing to endpapers (only), brief edgewear rubbing to white at 1/32" edges/corners, else fine and very bright in no dustjacket. First edition. 8 color plates, 9 black & white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text by Henry J. Ford. Bookplate on paste-down and Paul's Puppets stamp on FFEP.

1908 BEAUTIFUL 1ed Princes & Princesses Haakon Norway Napoleon Valois Lang
Andrew Lang was a late 19th-century children's book author who is best known for his colored 'fairy books'. He and his wife recognized that fairy stories were immensely popular amongst young readers. According to the preface of "Princes and Princesses", Mrs. Lang says,
"There are some children who [say] that stories about fairies are true, and that they like fairies; and that they do not like true stories about real people who lived long ago."
The Lang's decided to publish a collection of true stories that would fascinate children – children who would primarily want to read exciting fictional stories. Notable stories found in this book include those of the lives of:
· Napoleon Bonaparte
· Haakon III of Norway, grandson of King Sverre
· Jeanne d'Albert, Queen of Navarre
· Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I
· Marie Louise d'Orleans, niece of Louis XIV
· Isabella of Valois and princess of France, married Richard… Read More