LANG, Andrew (ed.).

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The Green Fairy Book. First edition of the third title in the Fairy Books series. Its 42 stories include the famous tales, "Three Little Pigs" and "The Story of the Three Bears". Henry Justice Ford's (1860-1941) artwork for the series "provided a benchmark in fantasy illustration" (Grolier). Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the result of the work of others, most crucially female translators such as his wife, Leonora (1851-1933) and others such as May Kendall and Margaret Hunt, both of whom also published fairy tales collections in their own name. Lang acknowledged this in the preface to The Lilac Fairy Book (1910).

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