Books

Scroll down to see a year-by-year list of Lang’s books, prefaces, and introductions or click into one of the categories. As you can see, this page is still in progress. Linked text is provided in the chronological listings as often as I could find it. (The most recent searches for digitized text were done in July 2024.)

While the following list of Lang’s books is incomplete, it improves upon previous listings. I consulted Roger Lancelyn Green’s Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography, WorldCat, the Andrew Lang Wikipedia page, and Internet Archive. Whenever possible, I tried to provide a scan or full text of the work and to get the dates correct. I do still recommend checking WorldCat on the dates if you are researching a particular title. On this site, if there is a discrepancy between the chronological listing below and the books in the categories above, the list below is more likely to be correct, having been updated more recently. (But check.) Nathan Hensley, in “Network, History, Method’ (2019, see the bibliography page) also quotes the 1949 British Museum Catalog, which “followed this breakdown: ‘(1) Books wholly by Lang, 215; (2) Books written in collaboration, 14; (3) Works translated by Lang, 18; (4) Works edited or with an introduction by Lang, 105; (5) Books about Lang, 11. Total 363′” (Hensley 124).  
Notes on the format: I listed works where Lang was author, editor, or translator in the general list under each year. Whenever Lang wrote the preface or introduction of a book he edited or translated himself, those also appear in the general list.  If Lang wrote only an introduction or preface to a work written or edited by someone else, I usually list that work separately under introductions and prefaces for that year. I do make exceptions to this rule when Lang’s introduction takes up a substantial part of the work, as was the case with Aristotle’s Politics, translated by W. E. Bolland (1877), and I list the fairy books and children’s books in the general list as well, though some of the books for children were written by Leonora Blanche Lang (which I note in the entries).
What’s missing: I have not yet combed through WorldCat year by year to sort through their Andrew Lang entries, nor have I rechecked the catalogues of the St Andrews Collection and the Lilly Library. In WorldCat, a search for “Lang, Andrew” as author for the year 1887 alone yields fifty-four results. As a keyword search, “Andrew Lang” in 1887 yields sixty-one. Many of these listings are reprints/new editions of Lang’s work, some are magazine articles, one or two are by a different Andrew Lang, a few are misattributed, and some ought to be included in the list below. While I hope to get to this task eventually, please do feel free to contact me if you have evidence for an important missing entry or wish to submit a correction. It is also important to note that WorldCat itself has missing or incorrect entries. Sometimes earlier dates exist in Internet Archive scans; sometimes titles are only known from Roger Lancelyn Green’s biography (or other places), and Green’s biography also has a few typos and errors (as I’m sure I also do below).
One note on my dates: I generally chose to list books under earliest date I could find. Thus, if Roger Lancelyn Green, or Internet Archive, or WorldCat gave the earliest date, I put the work under that year. If the date seems uncertain, I do note when there is a discrepancy.

1863

  • St Leonards Magazine. 1863. As phrased on Wikipedia, “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.” More information is available in IUCAT, as the Lilly Library holds this copy at Indiana University. Some manuscript copies of the St Leonard’s Magazine are available at the University of St Andrews, including the 1863 copy [uncatalogued when last I checked, but Lang’s work appears in MS30130-30142]. Lang had left for Glasgow to study for the Snell Exhibition in the summer of 1863, but as Roger Lancelyn Green notes, “continued to contribute to the Leonard’s Magazine, sending reviews, drawings and sets of verses” (Andrew Lang 27).

1872

  • Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (Longmans, Green, 1872) [This Internet Archive scan is of the 1913 New Impression, about which Lang writes in the preface, “Moved by the request of a friend too partial to ‘my early blights,’ in the phrase of Keats, I have consented to reprint ‘Ballads and Lyrics of Old France’ exactly as they appeared in 1872. Modified versions of some of the pieces have been published at various dates; they are now given in their pristine form, with the correction of two or three misprints.

1877

  • 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 The “short introductory essays” last through page 106. (Longmans, Green, 1877). [The Internet Archive scan is dated 1887.]
  • Odyssey Book VI (privately printed) (See Green 241)

1878

  • The Folklore of France (Privately printed) Off-Print from Folklore Record. (See Green 241)

1879

  • The Odyssey Of Homer Done Into English Prose (Macmillan, 1879) (Samuel H. Butcher and Andrew Lang; this Internet Archive scan is from 1883.)
  • Oxford: Brief historical & descriptive notes (Seeley and Co., 1880). [The Internet Archive scan is of the 1902 seventh edition. Roger Lancelyn Green dates this to 1879.]
  • Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus. 1879. (London: [C. Whittingtham]) [Wikipedia calls this “Advance issue of extracts from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English prose” with a date of 1879, the same date that Roger Lancelyn Green gives it (241)],” but WorldCat dates it [189-?]

1880

1881

  • The Library [“With a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson”] (Macmillan, 1881)
  • 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. ([London]: Fine Art Society, 1881.) More information is available here.
  • The Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, with an Essay on his Poetry by Andrew Lang (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1881) [This scan is from 1883.] [In his November 1887 “At the Sign of the Ship,” Lang notes that he was an unconscious pirate of Edgar Allan Poe’s Poems “not, to be sure, from greed of gold, but because ‘I wished to see him look respectable’ . . . . I was not then aware that copyright in Poe’s Poems still lived, and his heirs or assigns are very welcome to my share in the gains of an unconscious piracy. They have only to apply at the Sign of the Ship” (106)].

1882

  • The Black Thief. A new and original drama (Adapted from the Irish) in four acts. (1882) [No scan available. The original is in the Lilly Library at Indiana University. See WorldCat.]
  • Helen of Troy. (Longmans, Green 1882). (See also the 1913 reissue.)
  • The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (Macmillan, 1882) with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers. [The Internet Archive scan is from Edinburgh: R & R Clark, 1892, and notes “with corrections”. Roger Lancelyn Green dates the book to 1883.]

1884

  • Ballades and Verses Vain (1884) [The scan is from New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons.]
  • Custom and Myth (Longmans, Green, 1884) [The Internet Archive Scan is of the 1893 new edition.
  • Household tales; their origin, diffusion, and relations to the higher myths. [London]: William Clewes and Son, 1884]. Separate pre-publication issue of the “introduction” to Bohn’s Standard Library edition of Grimm’s Household tales. See this item in WorldCat.
  • Molière’s Les Précieuses Ridicules, Edited with Introduction and Notes by Andrew Lang, M.A. (Clarendon Press, 1884)
  • Much Darker Days. By A. Huge Longway. (Longmans, Green, 1884) (Parody of Dark Days by Hugh Conway.) [Lang issued a new revised edition in 1885, writing “Parody is a parasitical, but should not be a poisonous, Plant. The Author of this unassuming jape has learned, with surpirse and regret, that some sentences which it contains are thought even more vexatious than frivolous. To frivol, not to vex, was his aim, and he has corrected this edition accordingly. A. H. L.]
  • The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (Longmans, Green, 1884)
  • Rhymes à la Mode (Kegan Paul, Trench, 1884) [This scan is dated 1885.]

Introduction

1885

1886

  • Books and Bookmen (New York: George J. Coombes, 1886. According to Green, this American edition has two extra essays. The English edition was published in the same year. A second edition, with “one variant essay,” was published in 1887. (Green 242)
  • In the Wrong Paradise (1886) (Short stories) [This Internet Archive scan is from New York, Harper & Brothers.]
  • Letters to Dead Authors (Longmans Green, 1886)
  • 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 (London: Privately Printed, 1886). See this item in WorldCat.
  • The Mark of Cain (Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1886) (Novel in their shilling shocker series) [There is also an unrelated pamphlet with this title in the Special Collections of St Andrews that was written to secure copyright.]
  • La Mythologie Traduit de L’Anglais par Léon Léon Parmentier. Avec une préface par Charles Michel et des Additions de l’auteur. (Paris 1886) According to Wikipedia, “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’.”
  • The Politics of Aristotle. Introductory Essays (Longmans, Green, 1886)

1887

Introduction

  • Beauty and the Beast. Introduction to Charles Lamb’s version. (London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1887).

1888

  • Ballads of Books [Edited by Andrew Lang], (Longmans, Green, 1888). As Lang states in his preface: “This collection, ‘Ballads of Books,’ is a recast of the volume of the same name, edited by Mr. Brander Matthews, and published by Mr. Coombes (New York, 1887). An editor must be meddling, and I have altered Mr. Mathew’s work in some respects. The poems are now arranged by the dates of their authors . . . . Mr. Matthews’s dedication is preserved, and this English edition comes to a Poet and a Book-collector with good will from both the American and English editors” (vii)
  • Border Ballads. [Preface and Editing] (London: Lawrence and Bullen; New York: Longmans, Green). Roger Lancelyn Green dates this book to 1888 (243); however WorldCat’s records only show copies from 1895, the date of this scan The Ballads include “Thomas the Rhymer,” “Tamlane,” “The Wife of Usher’s Well,” “Clerk Saunders,“ “Sir Roland, “”The Demon Lover,” “Love Gregor, or the Lass of Lochrovan,” “The Twa Sisters of Binnorie,” “Helen of Kirkconnel,” “The Twa Corbies,” “Edom o’ Gordon,” and “The Douglas Tragedy.” A glossary is in the back.
  • Grass of Parnassus. Rhymes old and new. (Longmans, 1888) [More additions were published in the 1892 edition, Grass of Parnassus. First and Last Rhymes.]
  • Gold of Fairnilee (Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1888)
  • Euterpe: Being the Second Book of the Famous History of Herodotus, London D. Nutt, 1888. Barnabe Rich; edited by Andrew Lang.
  • “History of Cricket.” In Badminton Library. The Internet Archive has the full text from 1898, with the usual OCR errors. See WorldCat.
  • Perrault’s Popular Tales (Clarendon Press, 1888)
  • Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (Longmans, 1888) with W. E. Henley (Available in the Lilly Library, Indiana University). See WorldCat.
  • XXXII Ballades in Blue China (Kegan Paul, Trench, 1888) “The Verses which did not appear in the original edition of Ballades in Blue China have for the most part been published in Longman’s and Harper’s Magazine.”

1889

Introduction:

1890

  • Etudes traditionnistes [Traditional Studies. (Essays from the Saturday Review.] (Paris: J. Maisonneuve, 1890) Translated with permission of the editors of the Saturday Review by Henry Carnoy and with a preface by Emile Blémont. See this entry in WorldCat.
  • Golf, by Horace G. Hutchinson, with contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, Bart., Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, and Others (Longmans, Green and Co., 1895 [fifth edition, thoroughly revised]. I could not find an edition earlier than the third, also dated 1895, on WorldCat. Andrew Lang wrote the first chapter, “The History of Golf,” on pp. 1–28.)
  • How to Fail in Literature (Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, 1890)
  • Life, Letters, and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, First Earl of Iddesleigh, in two volumes (Blackwood, 1890). 1., vol. 2
  • Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (Longmans, Green, 1890) [This Internet Archive scan is from 1892. There is also a LibriVox recording]
  • The Red Fairy Book (Longmans, Green, 1890). The Large Paper copy has a separate introduction.
  • The Strife of Love in a Dream, Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (London: David Nutt, 1890)
  • The World’s Desire (Longmans, Green, 1890) with H. Rider Haggard. Lang also wrote the prefatory and concluding poems. The Internet Archive scan here is from 1918. A manuscript, with clear differences between Lang and Haggard’s handwriting, is preserved by the Norfolk Record Office.

Introductions:

  • Adventures of Ulysses, by Charles Lamb. (London: E. Arnold). Preface. See WorldCat. (The linked preface is from Gebbie and Co. in Philadelphia; they have an earlier 1886 edition without Lang’s preface.) 
  • “Rudyard Kipling.” The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. “Biographical and Critical Sketch by Andrew Lang.” (New York: Harper & Bros.) See WorldCat. (The book is borrowable from Internet Archive; the introduction notes some of Lang’s first impressions of Kipling’s work from when Kipling was little known.) 
  • Longinus on the Sublime, translated by H. L. Havell (Macmillan 1890). Introduction. See WorldCat.
  • Songs and Verses, by Thomas Rae. (Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1890). See WorldCat.

1891   

  • Angling Sketches (Longman’s, Green, 1891)
  • The Blue Poetry Book (Longmans, Green, 1891) [This scan is the 1912 fifth impression]
  • Essays in Little (London, Henry and Co., 1891. According to WorldCat records, the book was published simultaneously by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York (and reprinted in 1897 and 1901); it was later reprinted by Longmans in 1906 and 1912.) [The Internet Archive scan is from the 1901 New York Charles Scribner’s Sons edition.
  • Famous Golf Links, by Horace G. Hutchinson, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, T. Rutherford Clark, See on WorldCat.
  • Selected Poems of Robert Burns. [Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891) Lang’s introduction is on pages xi–l. [This scan is from 1896.]

Introductions:

1892

  • A Batch of Golfing Papers: By Andrew Lang and Others (New York: M. F. Mansfield, 1892) [This Internet Archive Scan is from 1897.]
  • Grass of Parnassus. First and Last Rhymes (Longmans, Green, 1892. See also the earlier edition of 1888]
  • The Green Fairy Book (Longmans, Green, 1892)
  • “Piccadilly.” The Great Streets of the World. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892). pp. 37–68.
  • Waverley Novels (by Walter Scott, edited with introductory essays and notes, by Andrew Lang), 48 volumes (Nimmo 1892–94). These were reissued in 24 volumes as a “Large Type Border Edition” in 1898. I was able to find scans of the following volumes (note that pre-1898 editions are often only one volume of a multi-volume work by Scott; Lang’s introduction always appears in the first volume):
    Vols. 1–2, Waverley [The Nimmo 1898 one-volume Border Edition is linked here, with Lang’s editor’s note, introduction (dated Sep. 1892, pp. lxxxi–cii), and notes]
    Vols. 3–4, Guy Mannering, the Astrologer (vol. 2 in 1898, introduction dated Oct. 1892) 
    Vols. 5–6 The Antiquary (vol. 3 in 1898, introduction dated Nov. 1892)
    Vols. 7–8 Rob Roy (vol. 4 in 1898, introduction dated Dec. 1892)
    Vols. 9–10 Old Mortality (vol. 5 in 1898, introduction dated Jan. 1893)
    Vols. 11–12 The Heart of Mid-Lothian (vol. 6 in 1898, introduction dated Feb. 1893)
    Vol. 13, A Legend of Montrose (A Legend of Montrose; and The Black Dwarf were vol. 7 in 1898 (1898 introduction to LM, pp. ix–xv; BD, pp. 315–320, both introductions dated Mar. 1893)
    Vol. 14–15, The Bride of Lammermoor; The Black Dwarf (The Bride of Lammermoor was vol. 8 in 1898; the introduction was dated Mar. 1893, ix–xxiv) (Linked introduction from New York E. B. Hall edition of 1893)
    Vols. 16–17, Ivanhoe (vol. 9 of the 1898 edition; the introduction is dated Apr. 1893, pp. ix–xxv)
    Vols. 18–19, The Monastery; (vol. 10 in 1898; the introduction is dated May 1893) 
    Vols. 20–21, The Abbot (vol. 11 in 1898; the introduction is dated June 1893)
    Vols. 22–23, Kenilworth (vol. 12 in 1898; the introduction is dated July 1893, pp. ix–xxvi)
    Vols. 24–25, The Pirate (vol. 13 in 1898; the introduction is dated Aug. 1893, pp. ix–xx) 
    Vols. 26–27, The Fortunes of Nigel (vol. 14 in 1898; the introduction is dated Sep. 1893, pp. ix–xxii)
    Vols. 28–30, Peveril of the Peak, vol. 2, vol. 3; the Lang intro is at Internet Archive in the Boston Dana Estes edition (vol. 15 in the 1898 Nimmo edition; the introduction is dated Oct. 1893, pp. ix–xviii.) 
    Vols. 31–32, Quentin Durward (vol. 16 of the 1898 edition; the introduction is dated Nov. 1893, pp. ix–xix).
    Vols. 33–34, St. Ronan’s Well (vol. 17 in 1898) (link to Lang’s introduction in the New York E. B. Hall edition; introduction to the 1898 Nimmo edition is dated Dec. 1893)  
    Vols. 35–36, Redgauntlet (vol. 18 of the 1898 edition; the introduction is dated Jan. 1894.)
    Vol. 37, The Betrothed (The Betrothed and The Talisman formed volume 19 of the 24-volume 1898 edition; the introductions are from Feb. 1894). 
    Vol. 38, The Talisman 
    Vols. 39–40, Woodstock (vol. 20 in 1898; the introduction is dated Mar. 1894, pp. ix–xviii)
    Vols. 41–42, The Fair Maid of Perth (vol. 21 in 1898; the introduction is dated to Apr. 1894, pp. ix–xviii)
    Vols. 43–44, Anne of Geierstein (vol. 22 in 1898; the introduction is dated May 1894, ix–xiv) (Boston Dana Estes Edition scan here). 
    Vols. 45–46, Count Robert of Paris; and The Surgeon’s Daughter (vol. 23 in 1898; the introduction is dated June 1894, pp. ix–xiv) 
    Vol. 47, Castle Dangerous (introduction dated July 1894, pp. ix–xv in the 1898 Nimmo edition, in which Castle Dangerous; and, Chronicles of the Canongate were volume 24) 
    Vol. 48, Chronicles of the Canongate. (Lang’s introduction appears on pp. 307–312 of the 1898 edition, in which Chronicles of the Canongate followed Castle Dangerous in vol. 24.)
  • William Young Sellar: A Brief Memoir ([Oxford?: Privately Printed,] 1892).

Memoir published within another book (1892):

1893

Introductions and Preface

1894

 Introductions

  • See the Nimmo Border Edition of the Waverley novels above (under 1892) from Redgauntlet (vols. 35–36) to Chronicles of the Canongate (vol. 48). 
  • Harry Lorrequer, by Charles Lever. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1894). “The Novels of Charles Lever,” by Andrew Lang, is the introduction to this edition. See WorldCat.
  • Little Johannes by Frederick van Eden (London: W. Heinemann, 1895 [1894]. Introductory Essay See WorldCat.

1895

  • My Own Fairy Book (Bristol: Arrowsmith, New York: Longmans, Green, 1895). Prince Prigio, Prince Ricardo, and The Gold of Fairnilee are included. See the introduction “To Children.”
  • Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. (London: A. & C. Black, 1895). See WorldCat.
  • The Red True Story Book (Longmans, Green, 1895)
  • The Voices of Jeanne D’Arc (1895) [Place of publication not identified]: [Publisher not identified], [1895]. See in WorldCat.

 Introduction

1896

Introductions

  • Australian Legendary Tales, collected by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker (Catherine Somerville Parker [Elsewhere listed as Katie]) Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: David Nutt, 1896, as part of the series  “Fairy Tales of the British Empire” (Sulway 376). See WorldCat. Nike Sulway’s “Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices” in The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, has brief but interesting commentary on Parker, the Langs, and the Brown Fairy Book (375–76). 
  • The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Preface by Andrew Lang. (London: Truslove and Hanson, two volumes, 1896). See WorldCat.

1897

Introductions in books that were not edited by Lang (1897)

  • “Edmond About and Greece.” The King of the Mountains, by Edmond François Valentin About. Trans. R. Davey. Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: William Heinemann, 1897.) See WorldCat. (As of 2024, the Heinemann edition was not on Internet Archive.)
  • Animal Land Where there are No People, by Sybil Corbet and Katherine Corbet. Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: J. M. Dent, 1898.) [Roger Lancelyn Green dates this to 1897, but WorldCat dates it to 1898.]
  • The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott. Introduction by Andrew Lang [?] (London: Service and Paton, 1898 [1897]). See WorldCat.

1898

Introductions

  • The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: Ward, Lock, and Co. is linked. An edition from Melbourne: E. W. Cole has no publication date. However, Lang’s introduction is dated May 10, 1898). See WorldCat.
  • More Australian Legendary Tales, by Catherine Somerville Parker (Field). Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: David Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen, & Slade, 1898). See WorldCat.
  • The Pleasures of Literature and the Solace of Books. Compiled by Joseph Shaylor, with an introduction by A. Lang. (London: Wells Gardner, 1898). See WorldCat.
  • See also Lang’s introductions in the Gadshill Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes above, vols. 21–32.

1899

Introductions

  • The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer [Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche], by Alexander Mackenzie. With introductory Chapter by Andrew Lang. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1899, pp. vii–xii. A scan is now available in Google Books. See WorldCat.
  • Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb. Introductory Preface by Andrew Lang. (London: S. T. Freemantle, 1899). See WorldCat.
  • The Traditional Poetry of the Finns. [Il Kalevala, o la Poesia tradizionale dei Finni.] By Dominico Comparetti. Translated by Isabella M. Anderton. With introduction by Andrew Lang. (Longmans, Green, 1898). See WorldCat Full text is available from Internet Archive.
  • See also Lang’s introductions in the Gadshill edition of The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes above, vols. 33–34.

1900

Introduction:

  • Notre-Dame of Paris (London: Heinemann, [1900?] (Introduction only, translation by Jesse Haynes, from The French Classical Romances series, edited by Edmund Gosse. The Internet Archive has, to my knowledge, only the full text available, not a scan; the full text is from the New York, P.F. Collier reprint of 1902). See WorldCat. Roger Lancelyn Green dates this book to 1902, and the one WorldCat dating for 1900? is questionable—but is a different publisher than the 1902 versions.
  • Rab and his friends; and Our Dogs. By John Brown, with an introduction by Andrew Lang. (New York: Century, 1900) See WorldCat.

1901   

Prefaces and Introductions:

1902

1903

  • The Crimson Fairy Book (Longmans, Green, 1903)
  • Lyrics (1903) [WorldCat lists this title as being published both by T. B. Mosher (Portland, ME) and Bibelot]. Roger Lancelyn Green notes that his is a pirate edition (246).
  • “‘The nineteenth century’ and Mr. Frederick Myers.” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 18, part 46, London, R. Brimley Johnson, 1903, pp. 62–77. (See WorldCat entry.)
  • Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts (Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1903) (Introduction by Lang: there are a few pages missing in the scan of this introduction.)
  • Social Origins (Longman’s, Green, 1903) Lang’s text is published in the same volume as Primal Law by James Jasper Atkinson.
  • The Story of the Golden Fleece (Charles H. Kelly, 1903) [Juvenile Audience.] See this entry in WorldCat.
  • The Valet’s Tragedy and Other Stories (Longmans, Green, 1903) [History]

Introductions

  • George Douglas Brown, Author of “The House with the Green Shutters”: a Biographical Memoir, by Cuthbert Lennox and Reminiscences by Andrew Melrose, with introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: Hodder and Stouton, 1903). See WorldCat.
  • The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas. Translated by Alfred Allison, with an introduction by Andrew Lang (London: Methuen). Roger Lancelyn Green dates this book to 1903 (246); the two entries on WorldCat say [1903–1905] and [1907?]. The introduction by Lang is unsigned; it is the same one used for Dumas’s six-volume My Memoirs (1907).

1904

  • The Apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610, by James Maitland, edited by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1904. [Printed for the Scottish History Society.] See WorldCat.
  • The Brown Fairy Book (Longmans, Green, 1904) [This scan is from 1914.]
  • Historical Mysteries (Smith, Elder, 1904). [Smith, Elder also published The Cornhill Magazine, where most of these essays first appeared: the Morning Post review notes that one of the fourteen essays appeared it is pages (8 Dec. 1904), p. 2.]
  • A History of Scotland: From the Roman Occupation volume 3 of 4; (Blackwood 1904. See also 1900, 1902, and 1907.
  • Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake (James Nisbet, 1904) seems to have been edited and with an introduction by Lang: “Editor’s Introduction.” 

Memoirs, Prefaces, Notes, Short Fiction, etc.

  • “Diary of a Scottish Antiquarian Discoverer.” [Fiction] Printers’ Pie: A Festival Souvenir of the Printers’ Pension, Almhouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation, 1904. Published at the Offices of The Sphere, London, 1904, pp. 75–78. Google Books. 
  • The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With Topography of the Poem by the late Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B. And Notes by Andrew Lang with fifty full-page illustrations and a map.(London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904). See in WorldCat. 
  • Robert Barclay “Memories,” edited by his wife. [With Sermons and Selections.]With a preface by Andrew Lang. (Glasgow: Bryce and Murray, 1904). See WorldCat.
  • William Shakespeare: His Family and Friends by the Late Charles Isaac Elton, edited by A. Hamilton Thompson with a Memoir of the Author by Andrew Lang (London: John Murray, 1904 / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1904).

1905

 Introductions, Prefaces, and Short Biographies:

  • Crystal Gazing, Its History and Practice, with a Discussion of the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying, by Northcote W. Thomas with an Introduction by Andrew Lang, (New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1905)
  • The Euahlayi Tribe, a Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia, by Katie Langloh Parker, with an introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: Archibald Constable, 1905). See WorldCat.
  • The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott, with a Short Biography by Andrew Lang, and introduction and notes by W. H. Spragge. No publisher listed in WorldCat, 1905.
  • The Lay of the Last Minstrel, by Sir Walter Scott, with a short biography by Andrew Lang, and introduction and notes by Fred W. Tickner. Roger Lancelyn Green dates this book to 1905, but the only copies in WorldCat are from 1908 and 1910. (Longmans, Green)
  • Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott, with a short biography by Andrew Lang, introduction and notes by Guy Kendall. (Longmans, Green, 1905). See in WorldCat.
  • The Plain Princess, and Other Stories. By Irene Maunder, with a preface by Andrew Lang. (Longmans, Green, 1905). See in WorldCat.

1906

1907

  • Anthropological Essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honour of his 75th Birthday Oct. 2, 1907. By H. Balfour, A.E. Crawley, D.J. Cunningham, L.R. Farnell, J.G. Frazer, A.C. Haddon, E.S. Hartland, A. Lang [“Australian Problems”], R.R. Marett, C.S. Myers, J.L. Myres, C.H. Read, Sir J. Rhŷs, W. Ridgeway, W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligmann and T.A. Joyce, N.W. Thomas, A. Thomson, E. Westermarck. With a bibliography by Barbara W. Freire-Marreco. [Edited by N.W. Thomas. With a notice of E.B. Tylor’s work by Andrew Lang.] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907). See WorldCat.
  • A History of Scotland: From the Roman Occupation, volume 4 of 4 (Blackwood, 1907) (See also 1900, 1902, and 1904.)
  • The King over the Water (Longmans, Green, 1907) [by A[lice] Shield and Andrew Lang. See more information on Alice Shield on the Blackwood’s page.]
  • The Olive Fairy Book (Longmans, Green, 1907)
  • Poets’ Country (1907) editor, with J. Churton Collins, W. J. Loftie, E. Hartley Coleridge, Michael Macmillan. In addition to editing, Lang contributed the chapters on “Scott” and “Shelley and Nature.” The bulk of the chapters were written by J. Churton Collins (12), followed by W. J. Loftie (5). E. Hartley Coleridge contributed three, and Michael Macmillan contributed the essay on Robert Burns.
  • Tales of a Fairy Court (London; Glasgow: Collins Clear Type, 1907)
  • Tales of Troy and Greece (Longmans, Green, 1907) (Dedicated to H. Rider Haggard, no preface or introduction)
  • The Union of 1707: A Survey of Events. Edited and with and introduction by P Hume Brown (Glasgow: G. Outram, 1907, pp. 23–31). See WorldCat. Lang contributed the chapters, “The End of an Auld Lang Sang” (pp. 23–31) and “A Romantic Plot Against the Union” (pp. 75–92.” 

Introductions:

  • A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Andrew Lang. (Longmans, Green, 1907). See WorldCa
  • All’s Well that Ends Well. [Roger Lancelyn Green claims Lang wrote an introduction to this play in the Caxton Shakespeare. I could not find this reference in WorldCat.]
  • Literary Forgeries, by James Anson Farrer. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. (Longmans, Green, 1907). See WorldCat.
  • My Memoirs, by Alexander Dumas, six volumes. Introduction by Andrew Lang. London: Methuen; New York: Macmillan, 1907–1909. See WorldCat.

1908

Introduction

  • Quentin Durward, by Sir Walter Scott, with introductory essay and notes by Andrew Lang. (London: Macmillan, 1908). See WorldCat, but this is part of Macmillan’s reissue of the Nimmo series from 1892–94 and 1898. 
  • Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York, and his Times, by Alice Shield, with an introduction by Andrew Lang. London: Longmans, 1908.

1909

 Introduction

  • The Scarlet Gown, by Robert Murray. Second edition with additional poems. Introduction by Andrew Lang. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1909. See WorldCat. See 1894.
  • Hamewith, by Charles Murray. With and Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: Constable, 1909). See WorldCat.

1910

Introductions

1911

Introductions and Prefaces

  • An Anthology of English Prose (1332–1740), by Annie Barnett and Lucy Dale, with a preface by Andrew Lang. 2 volumes. (Longmans, Green, 1911–1912). See WorldCat. One entry is listed as 1911–1912. The other is listed as 1912.
  • A Study in Nationality, by J. Vyrnvy Morgan. Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: Chapman Hall, 1911). See WorldCat.
  • The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 25 volumes [and the letters, edited by Sidney Colvin in volumes 23–25]. Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1911–1912). See WorldCat.

1912

  • “In Praise of Frugality.” Roger Lancelyn Green notes that this was “Translated from Pope Leo XII. Poem, privately printed by ‘W.F.P’. Limited to 13 copies” (249). It is not listed in WorldCat.
  • “A Iesu Christo ineuntis saeculi auspicia: Ode to the opening century New Year’s Eve.” Pope Leo, Andrew Lang. Publisher: [Hertford]: [Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd., printers], [1901?, 1912?–Two dates given in brackets on WorldCat] Roger Lancelyn Green notes that this was also limited to 13 copies.

Preface

  • Men, Women, and Minxes. By Mrs. Lang [Leonora Blanche Lang], with a prefatory note by Andrew Lang. (London: Longmans, Green, 1912.) See WorldCat. [This prefatory note is extremely short; Leonora Lang’s book came out after Andrew Lang’s death.]

Posthumous

  • Highways and Byways in The Border (Macmillan, 1913) with John Lang.
  • The Strange Story Book (Longmans, Green, 1913) “By Mrs. Lang. Edited by Andrew Lang.”
  • The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang, In Four Volumes, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol.3, vol. 4, Edited by Leonora Blanche Lang, (Longmans, Green, 1923).
  • Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926). See in WorldCat.
  • Tartan Tales From Andrew Lang (New York: Longmans, Green, 1928) edited by Bertha L. Gunterman. See in WorldCat.
  • Andrew Lang and St. Andrews: A Centenary Anthology. (St Andrews University Press, 1944). See in WorldCat.

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This page was last updated on 27 Feb. 2025.