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First Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt decoration of a knight and maiden on spine. Gilt decoration on front cover shows a knight saving a woman from a dragon. All edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 372 pages, complete. Eight color plates, complete. Many black-and-white plates and in-text illustrations by H. J. Ford, complete. List of Illustrations (denoting Plates and Illustrations in Text) in front. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, small occasional marks or stains, and slight wear to edges of text block. Covers are clean and intact overall but have browning along spine, splitting along front and back outer joints, a few small marks, and chipping at head and tail of spine. A Very Good copy. A collection of romances, which are fairy tales written in a specific tradition, gathered by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), a Scottish author and literary critic. In his Preface, Andrew briefly describes what the definition of romance is and also credits his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang (nee Alleyne; 1851-1933), as having written all of the fairy tales herein which are based on the "old romances." Leonora was an English author, editor, and translator and collaborated with her husband on the Fairy Books series from 1889-1913 in those various capacities. Notably, while Andrew became famous for the Fairy Books series, most of them were written, translated, and edited by Leonora and a small group of other writers, most of whom were women. Their process was to adapt old fairy tales into English translations written in a style that was more palatable to a contemporary audience. Presented herein are many romances. The titles of the romances are as follows: "How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf," "The Disenchantment of the Werwolf," "The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands," "The Death of Gunnar," "Njal's Burning," "The Lady of Solace," "Una and the Lion," "How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon," "Amys and Amyle," "The Tale of the Cid," "The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance," "The Adventure of the Two Armes who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep," "The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights," "The Helmet of Mambrino," "How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle," "Don Quixote's Home-coming," "The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies," "How Oberon saved Huon," "Havelok and Goldborough," "Cupid and Psyche," "Sir Bevis the Strong," "Ogier the Dane," "How the Ass became a Man again," "Guy of Warwick," "How Bradamante conquered the Wizard," "The Ring of Bradamante," "The Fulfilling of the Prophecy," "The Knight of the Sun," and "How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father.".
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