"The Blue Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang - Longmans Green, London - 1926 edition - with numerous illustrations by H.J Ford - 390p, 15cmx13cm - condition: good, some rubbing to blue boards, some coloured i, tape repair to front endpaper, all illustrations present. The Blue Fairy Book is one of the Lang Coloured Fairy Tale books. The first edition consisted of 5,000 copies, which sold for 6 shillings each. The book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairytales, among other sources.[7] The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series, and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources.