Introductions and Prefaces (Linked Text)

(I have not included Lang’s introductions and prefaces to his own writings below, nor to the colored fairy books, etc., nor to introductions for which I cannot currently find linked text (e.g. Duff’s Kings of Cricket). Please consult the full chronological list of books as needed.)

(Introductions and prefaces below only go through 1894.)

Literature

Classics

• 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 Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (London: David Nutt, 1887) 
• Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English prose, with an Introductory Essay (Macmillan, 1880) [This Internet Archive scan is from 1896.]
• “Treatise on the Sublime.” Longinus on the Sublime, Macmillan, 1890.

Classics Adapted for Children:

• 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.) 

British Literature

• Border Ballads. [Preface and Editing] (London: Lawrence and Bullen; New York: Longmans, Green, 1888). (See also poetry below.)
• Elizabethan Songs in Honor of Love and Beauty, edited by Edmund H. Garrett, Little Brown, 1891. (See also poetry below.)
• “Le Morte D’Arthur.” Le Morte D’Arthur. By Sir Thomas Malory, edited by H. Oskar Sommer, 1891.
• The Lyrics and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott. Dent, 1894.
• “The Novels of Charles Lever.” Harry Lorrequer. By Charles Lever. Little, Brown, 1894. (The scan is from Little Brown, 1906.)
• “Rudyard Kipling.” The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. (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.) 
• Selected Poems of Robert Burns. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891. [The scan is from 1896.] (See also poetry below.)
• 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.)
• The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes (Gadshill Edition, London: Chapman and Hall, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons), editor, 1897–1899, reissued with an additional four volumes with which Lang was not involved in 1908.
  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, vols. 1–2 (1897)
  Oliver Twist, vol. 3
  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, vols. 4–5 (1897)
  Martin Chuzzlewit, vols. 6–7
  Dombey and Son, vols. 8–9 (1897)
  The Old Curiosity Shop, vols. 10–11
  Barnaby Rudge, vols. 12–13 (1897)
  David Copperfield, vols. 14–15 (1897) (The Internet Archive / GoogleBooks scan of vol. 14 is missing at least one page from its introduction)
  Bleak House, vols. 16–17 
  Christmas Books, vol. 18 (includes A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man)
  Little Dorrit, vol. 19–20, 1897) [The Internet Archive scan is New York, Charles Scribner and Sons, 1907];
  A Tale of Two Cities, vol. 21 (1898)
  Great Expectations, vol. 22 (1898)
  Our Mutual Friend, vols. 23–24 (1898)
  Hard Times, Hunted down. Holiday romance, and George Silverman’s explanation, vol. 25
  Sketches by Boz, vols. 26–27 (1898)
  American Notes and Pictures from Italy, vol. 28;
  The Uncommercial Traveller, vol. 29 (1898)
  A Child’s History of England, vol. 30 (1898)
  Christmas Stories from “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”, vols. 31–32 (1898)
  The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Master Humphrey’s Clock, vol. 33 (1899)
  Reprinted pieces, the lamplighter, To be read at dusk, and Sunday under three heads, vol. 34 (1899), includes a “General Essay on the Work of Charles Dickens” by Andrew Lang, pp. ix–xxxvi. 

Continental Literature

• Aucassin and Nicolette (The WorldCat entry for the David Nutt first edition is dated 1887; their are numerous later editions, some from American publishers.) The 1910 David Nutt edition of this text, with Lang’s introduction, is available in Internet Archive.
• The Dead Leman and Other Tales from the French (with Paul Sylvester), Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
• Hypnerotómachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame. David Nutt, 1890.
• Molière’s Les Précieuses Ridicules, Edited with Introduction and Notes by Andrew Lang, M.A. (Clarendon Press, 1884)
• Théophile Gautier, by Maxine Du Camp, T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. (Unsigned Preface, but Lang is identified as the author on the title page.)

Fairy Tales

Please see Children’s Books, Fairy Tales, and Fantasies for additional entries. The Colored Fairy Books and Others in Lang’s editions of children’s writing for Longmans are only listed there.

• Beauty and the Beast. Introduction to Charles Lamb’s version. (London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1887).
• Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants. By Marian Roalfe Cox, London, The Folklore Society, David Nutt, 1893.
• “Household Tales, Their Origin, Diffusion, and Relation to the Higher Myths.” Grimm’s Household Tales. Translated and Edited by Margaret Hunt. Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: J. Bell and Sons, 1884.
• “Literary Fairy Tales.” Introduction to Little Johannes, by Frederick Van Eeden, translated by Clara Bell. London: Heinemann, 1895.
• Perrault’s Popular Tales, Clarendon Press, 1888.

Folklore: British/Scottish

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, by Robert Kirk. Lang’s edition is dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, 1893.

Folklore: International

• “New Guinea Folklore.” In From my Verandah in New Guinea by Hugh Hastings Romily (London: D. Nutt, 1889).
• Australian Legendary Tales, collected by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker (Catherine Somerville Parker [Elsewhere listed as Katie]) Introduction by Andrew Lang. (London: David Nutt, 1896). See WorldCat.
• The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Preface by Andrew Lang. (London: Truslove and Hanson, two volumes, 1896). See WorldCat.
• More Australian Legendary Tales, 1898.

Poetry in English or Modern Languages

• Border Ballads. [Preface and Editing] (London: Lawrence and Bullen; New York: Longmans, Green, 1888). 
• The Death-Wake: or Lunacy, a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras, by Thomas Tod Stoddart (London, John Lane 1895)
• Elizabethan Songs in Honor of Love and Beauty, edited by Edmund H. Garrett, Little Brown, 1891.
• “The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe”
• Selected Poems of Robert Burns. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891. [The scan is from 1896.]

Sport and Fishing

• The Compleat Angler. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew Lang (London: J. M. Dent, 1896)

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