Author: Mrs. Lang [Leonora Blanche Alleyne] ; Andrew Lang (Ed)
Title: The Red Book of Heroes
Description: London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of this biographical book for children, which contains information on various historical 'heroes', with vivid colour plates by A. Wallis Mills. First Edition. Illustrations include one colour frontispiece, six colour plates, seventeen black-and-white plates, and twenty-three in-text illustrations. These were all drawn by Arthur Wallis Mills (1878-1940), a British artist who often contributed to 'Punch Magazine', and illustrated different works by Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse. This is a lovely children's work which contains stories about various important historical figures. Contents include 'The Lady-in-Chief', 'Hannibal', 'The Marquis of Montrose', and 'Palissy the Potter&apos. Written by Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933), an English author, editor, and translator. She helped to write 'The Fairy Books' with her husband Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913.Edited by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. His contributions within the field of anthropology are well-remembered at the University of St Andrews, where he studied, with a lecture series named after him. The most famous lecture from within the series, titled 'Fairy Stories', was given by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1939. With three pages of publisher's adverts to front of text. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light wear to the extremities with bumping to head and tail of spine. Fading to the spine and the margins of boards, with a few marks. Endpapers are lightly age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to margins of text. Very Good . Ill.: A. Wallis Mills. Very Good .

Keywords: The Red Book of Heroes children's literature biography Leonora Blanche Alleyne children's literature colour plates A. Wallis Mills


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