In addition to the book sources below, researchers with an interest in Andrew Lang and history may also wish to explore some of Lang’s periodical writings, particularly those in Blackwood’s and The Cornhill.
History
- Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (Seeley and Co., 1879). [The Internet Archive scan is of the 1902 seventh edition.]
- St. Andrews (Longmans, Green, 1893). As Eleanor De Selms Langstaff notes in her biography of Lang, Lang wrote this book using “secondary sources and failed to verify them. The result was a work riddled with embarrassing inaccuracies” (74). Langstaff also points out that, in the end, the experience helped Lang as a revisionist historian: “Fresh examinations of the documents in their earliest forms became the keystone of Lang’s historical technique after painfully learning his lesson from his university history, St Andrews” (74).
- Pickle the Spy; or the Incognito of Charles, (1897)
- The Companions of Pickle (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898)
- Prince Charles Edward Stuart: The Young Chevalier (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900)
- A History of Scotland: From the Roman Occupation (Blackwood 1900–1907) four volumes: volume 1, 1900; volume 2, 1902; volume 3, 1904; volume 4, 1907
- The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901, new and revised ed., 1904)
- James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (Longman’s, Green, and Co., 1902)
- The Valet’s Tragedy and Other Stories (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903)
- Historical Mysteries (Smith, Elder, 1904)
- John Knox and the Reformation (1905)
- The Clyde Mystery. A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (1905)
- The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906)
- The King over the Water (co-written with A[lice] Shield, whose name appears first, Longmans, Green, 1907). Lang had also worked with Shield on the Blackwood’s article, “Queen Oglethorpe” [Feb. 1898].
- A Short History of Scotland (Blackwood, 1911) [This Internet Archive Scan is from New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1912]
Biographies
- Life, Letters, and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, First Earl of Iddesleigh, in two volumes (Blackwood, 1890). vol. 1., vol. 2
- William Young Sellar: A Brief Memoir ([Oxford?: Privately Printed], 1892).
- The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (Nimmo, 1896) two volumes, 1, vol. 2 [The scans are dated 1897.]
- Alfred Tennyson (Blackwood, 1901 [Modern English Writers Series])
- Life of Sir Walter Scott (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906)
- The Maid of France, being the story of the life and death of Jeanne d’Arc (1908) [The Internet Archive scan is of the 1922 new edition, with a preface by Leonora Blanche Lang.]
- Sir George Mackenzie King’s Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and Times (Longmans, Green, 1909).
Editions of Rare Historical Texts
- 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 Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (Chicago: Way and Williams; London: David Nutt,1897) translator. In the preface, Lang writes that he has omitted “one or two very dull narratives” and has “added an essay on Fierbois and the Maid’s connection with the shrine”
- The Highlands of Scotland in 1750: From Manuscript 104 in the King’s Library, British Museum, with an Introduction by Andrew Lang (Blackwood, 1898)
- The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies: A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research. The Text by Robert Kirk, M. A., Minister of Aberfoyle, A.D. 1691. The Comment by Andrew Lang, M.A. A.D. 1893 (Nutt, 1893)
- The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton (1893) [Only thirty copies printed. You may find out more about the book here.]
- The Gowrie conspiracy; confessions of George Sprot. London: Printed for private circulation [by Spottiswoode], 1902. [You may find out more about the book here.]
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