The Crimson Fairy Book

First published in 1903, THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK was the eighth volume to be compiled by Andrew Lang in his splendid, historic "Rainbow" series of fairy tales. It is also the eighth to be published in The Folio Society's complete Lang series. For each of its exquisitely bookcrafted volumes, The Folio Society commissioned pairs of illustrators and introducers whose imagination and insight vividly bring to life Lang's tales of fairies and trolls, its maidens and monsters. In this volume, the introducer is Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, while illustrator Tim Steven's fantastical imagination vibrantly paints the magic of winged chimeras, fearsome dragons, winsome woodland girls, royal beauties, and valiant princes. THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK also contains stories to rival the animal stories of Aesop and Kipling! Bound in full dark-red buckram with gold-accented pictorial design. 320 pages, slipcased.