To 1884 , image from
The Princess Nobody (1884), illustrated by
Richard Doyle, engraved and coloured by
Edmund Evans •
St Leonards Magazine. 1863. This was a reprint of several articles that appeared in the St Leonards Magazine that Lang edited at St Andrews University. Includes the following Lang contributions: Pages 10–13,
Dawgley Manor; A sentimental burlesque; Pages 25–26,
Nugae Catulus; Pages 27–30,
Popular Philosophies; pages 43–50 are
Papers by Eminent Contributors, seven short parodies of which six are by Lang. •
The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872) •
The Odyssey of Homer Rendered into English Prose (1879) translator with
Samuel Henry Butcher • ''Aristotle's Politics Books I. III. IV. (VII.). The Text of Bekker. With an English translation by W. E. Bolland. Together with short introductory essays by A. Lang'' To page 106 are Lang's Essays, pp. 107–305 are the translation. Lang's essays without the translated text were later published as The Politics of Aristotle. Introductory Essays. 1886. •
The Folklore of France (1878) •
Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus. 1879. This was an advance issue of extracts from
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English prose •
XXXII Ballades in Blue China (1880) •
Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (1880). The 1915 edition of this work was illustrated by painter
George Francis Carline. •
Theocritus Bion and Moschus. Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay. 1880. •
Notes by Mr A. Lang on a collection of pictures by Mr J. E. Millais R.A. exhibited at the Fine Arts Society Rooms. 148 New Bond Street. 1881. •
The Library: with a chapter on modern illustrated books. 1881. •
The Black Thief. A new and original drama (Adapted from the Irish) in four acts. (1882) •
Helen of Troy, her life and translation. Done into rhyme from the Greek books. 1882. •
The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1882) with
William Aldington •
The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (1883) with
Walter Leaf and
Ernest Myers •
Custom and Myth (1884) •
The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884) •
Ballads and Verses Vain (1884) selected by
Austin Dobson •
Rhymes à la Mode (1884) •
Much Darker Days. By A. Huge Longway. (1884) •
Household tales; their origin, diffusion, and relations to the higher myths. [1884]. Separate pre-publication issue of the "introduction" to Bohn's edition of Grimm's Household tales.
1885–1889 •
That Very Mab (1885) with May Kendall •
Books and Bookmen (1886) •
Letters to Dead Authors (1886) •
In the Wrong Paradise (1886) stories •
The Mark of Cain (1886) novel •
Lines on the inaugural meeting of the Shelley Society. Reprinted for private distribution from the Saturday Review of 13 March 1886 and edited by Thomas Wise (1886) • ''La Mythologie Traduit de L'Anglais par Léon Léon Parmentier. Avec une préface par Charles Michel et des Additions de l'auteur. '' (1886) Never published as a complete book in English, although there was a Polish translation. The first 170 pages is a translation of the article in the 'Encyclopædia Britannica'. The rest is a combination of articles and material from 'Custom and Myth'. •
Almae matres (1887) •
He (1887 with
Walter Herries Pollock) parody •
Aucassin and Nicolette (1887) •
Myth, Ritual and Religion (2 vols., 1887) •
Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose. Done into English from the French of
Charles Deulin (1887) •
Grass of Parnassus. Rhymes old and new. (1888) • ''Perrault's Popular Tales'' (1888) •
Gold of Fairnilee (1888) •
Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (1888) with
W. E. Henley •
Prince Prigio (1889) •
The Blue Fairy Book (1889) (illustrations by
Henry J. Ford) •
Letters on Literature (1889) •
Lost Leaders (1889) •
Ode to Golf and
Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf. Contribution to
On the Links; being Golfing Stories by various hands (1889) •
The Dead Leman and other tales from the French (1889) translator with
Paul Sylvester 1890–1899 •
The Red Fairy Book (1890) • ''
The World's Desire'' (1890) with
H. Rider Haggard •
Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (1890) •
The Strife of Love in a Dream, Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (1890) •
The Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1890) •
Etudes traditionnistes (1890) •
How to Fail in Literature (1890) •
The Blue Poetry Book (1891) •
Essays in Little (1891) •
On Calais Sands (1891) •
Angling Sketches (1891) •
The Green Fairy Book (1892) •
The Library with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books (1892) with
Austin Dobson •
William Young Sellar (1892) •
The True Story Book (1893) •
Homer and the Epic (1893) •
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893) •
Waverley Novels (by Walter Scott), 48 volumes (1893) editor •
St. Andrews (1893) • ''Montezuma's Daughter'' (1893) with
H. Rider Haggard • ''
Kirk's Secret Commonwealth'' (1893) •
The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton (1893) •
The Yellow Fairy Book (1894) •
Ban and Arrière Ban (1894) •
Cock Lane and Common-Sense (1894) •
Memoir of R. F. Murray (1894) •
The Red True Story Book (1895) •
My Own Fairy Book (1895) •
A Monk of Fife (1895) • ''The Voices of Jeanne D'Arc'' (1895) •
The Animal Story Book (1896) •
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896) editor •
The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1896) two volumes •
Pickle the Spy; or the Incognito of Charles, (1897) •
The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) •
The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (1897) translator •
The Pink Fairy Book (1897) •
A Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) •
Pickle the Spy (1897) • •
The Companions of Pickle (1898) •
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898) •
The Making of Religion (1898) •
Selections from Coleridge (1898) •
Waiting on the Glesca Train (1898) •
The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899) •
Parson Kelly (1899) Co-written with
A. E. W. Mason •
The Homeric Hymns (1899) translator •
The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes (1899) editor
1900–1909 •
The Grey Fairy Book (1900) •
Prince Charles Edward (1900) •
Parson Kelly (1900) •
The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (1900) editor •
A History of Scotland – From the Roman Occupation (1900–1907) four volumes •
Notes and Names in Books (1900) •
Alfred Tennyson (1901) •
Magic and Religion (1901) •
Adventures Among Books (1901) •
The Crimson Fairy Book (1903) •
The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901, new and revised ed., 1904) •
The Book of Romance (1902) – contains stories about King Arthur, Charlemagne, William of Orange, and Robin Hood, adapted for children. •
The Disentanglers (1902) •
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902) •
Notre-Dame of Paris (1902) translator •
The Young Ruthvens (1902) •
The Gowrie Conspiracy: the Confessions of Sprott (1902) editor •
The Violet Fairy Book (1901) •
Lyrics (1903) •
Social England Illustrated (1903) editor •
The Story of the Golden Fleece (1903) • ''The Valet's Tragedy'' (1903) •
Social Origins (1903) with
Primal Law by
James Jasper Atkinson •
The Snowman and Other Fairy Stories (1903) •
Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies (1903) with
H. Rider Haggard •
The Brown Fairy Book (1904) •
Historical Mysteries (1904) •
The Secret of the Totem (1905) •
New Collected Rhymes (1905) •
John Knox and the Reformation (1905) • ''The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot'' (1905) •
The Clyde Mystery. A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (1905) •
Adventures among Books (1905) •
Homer and His Age (1906) •
The Red Romance Book (1906) •
The Orange Fairy Book (1906) •
The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) •
Life of Sir Walter Scott (1906) •
The Story of Joan of Arc (1906) •
New and Old Letters to Dead Authors (1906) •
Tales of a Fairy Court (1907) •
The Olive Fairy Book (1907) • ''Poets' Country'' (1907) editor, with
Churton Collins,
W. J. Loftie,
E. Hartley Coleridge,
Michael Macmillan •
The King over the Water (1907) •
Tales of Troy and Greece (1907) •
The Origins of Religion (1908) essays •
The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908) •
Origins of Terms of Human Relationships (1908) •
Select Poems of Jean Ingelow (1908) editor • ''The Maid of France, being the story of the life and death of Jeanne d'Arc'' (1908) •
Three Poets of French Bohemia (1908) •
The Red Book of Heroes (1909) •
The Marvellous Musician and Other Stories (1909) • ''Sir George Mackenzie King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and Times'' (1909)
1910–1912 •
The Lilac Fairy Book (1910) •
Does Ridicule Kill? (1910) •
Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy (1910) •
The World of Homer (1910) •
The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911) •
Ballades and Rhymes (1911) •
Method in the Study of Totemism (1911) •
A Short History of Scotland (1911) •
The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912) •
Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown (1912) •
A History of English Literature (1912) •
In Praise of Frugality (1912) •
Ode on a Distant Memory of Jane Eyre (1912) •
Ode to the Opening Century (1912)
Posthumous •
Highways and Byways in The Border (1913) with John Lang • confronts the Spectre" from
The Strange Story Book by Leonora Blanche Lang; Andrew Lang.
The Strange Story Book (1913) with Mrs. Lang •
The Poetical Works (1923) edited by Mrs. Lang, four volumes •
Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926) •
Tartan Tales From Andrew Lang (1928) edited by Bertha L. Gunterman •
From Omar Khayyam (1935)
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books Lang selected and edited 25 collections of stories that were published annually, beginning with
The Blue Fairy Book in 1889 and ending with
The Strange Story Book in 1913. They are sometimes called
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books although the
Blue Fairy Book and other
Coloured Fairy Books are only 12 in the series. In this chronological list the
Coloured Fairy Books alone are numbered. • (1)
The Blue Fairy Book (1889) • (2)
The Red Fairy Book (1890) •
The Blue Poetry Book (1891) • (3)
The Green Fairy Book (1892) •
The True Story Book (1893) • (4)
The Yellow Fairy Book (1894) •
The Red True Story Book (1895) •
The Animal Story Book (1896) • (5)
The Pink Fairy Book (1897) • ''The Arabian Nights' Entertainments'' (1898) •
The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899) • (6)
The Grey Fairy Book (1900) • (7)
The Violet Fairy Book (1901) •
The Book of Romance (1902) • (8)
The Crimson Fairy Book (1903) • (9)
The Brown Fairy Book (1904) •
The Red Romance Book (1905) • (10)
The Orange Fairy Book (1906) • (11)
The Olive Fairy Book (1907) •
The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908) •
The Red Book of Heroes (1909) • (12)
The Lilac Fairy Book (1910) •
The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911) •
The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912) •
The Strange Story Book (1913) == References ==