The “coloured” Andrew Lang book this week is the Red Fairy Book, originally published in 1890. The colour of this book, though, is all on the cover. The illustrations are all black and white and done in the Victorian style of the period. I’ve included some of my favourites, mostly animal-related and including a dragon, below the fold. I hope you enjoy.
Andrew Lang. The Red Fairy Book. Illustrated by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890.
Frontispiece. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 8. The Red Fairy Book
Mermaids! Page 27. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 83. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 94. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 97. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 143. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 166. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 250. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 278. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 280. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 295. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 297. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 305. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 311. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 337. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 359. The Red Fairy Book.
Page 364. The Red Fairy Book.
Link to last week’s The Violet Fairy Book
Link to next week’s The Green Fairy Book
via: The Internet Archive
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