Description: Dick Whittington, and Other Stories : Based on the Tales in the Blue Fairy Book, Paperback by Lang, Andrew; Ford, H. J.; Jacomb-hood, G. P., ISBN 1537544608, ISBN-13 9781537544601, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.*Biography*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 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 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...Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s..........George Percy Jacomb-Hood MVO (6 July 1857 – 11 December 1929) was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters..............
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Book Title: Dick Whittington, and Other Stories,based on the Tales in the Blue Fairy Book, : By:Andrew Lang,illustrations by:H. J. Ford(1860-1941) Was a Prolific and Successful English Artist and Illustrator, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood (6 July 1857 - 11 December 1929) Was a Painter, Etcher and Illustrator. (Children's Classics) Illustrated
Number of Pages: 62 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: General
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6.7 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: H. J. Ford, G. P. Jacomb-Hood, Andrew Lang
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
