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(Description) 

Author: Andrew Lang. (Henry Justice Ford, illustrator).
Title: The Brown Fairy Book.
Language: Text in English.
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. First Edition.
Size: 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: xiii-350 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good brown half morocco leather binding, finely bound by Morrell bindery (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt.
Content: Good to very good content (bright, tight, some light foxing and staining - as shown, 3 marginal tears not affecting the text or the illustrations repaired by a previous owner - as shown). 
Illustrated:  Complete with the 30 beautiful full-page plates, 8 of which are in color plus illustrations in the text by Henry Justice Ford.

The book: Attractive First edition of the Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book contains stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, and African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India. 

The author: Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

The illustrator: Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.