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THE TRUE STORY BOOK

Written by Andrew Lang
Illustrated by Lockhart Bogle, Lucien Davis, H.J. Ford, C. H. M. Kerr, Lancelot Speed
Published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1893

THE TRUE STORY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by Lockhart Bogle, Lucien Davis, H.J. Ford, C. H. M. Kerr, Lancelot Speed.
Stock no. 1325634
1st. 1893. Hardback. Good condition.

Dark blue cloth, elaborate gilt decoration to front cover, vignette to spine. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine very slightly browned. Name in ink to half title-page, ink address stamp to verso of free-endpaper (neatly crossed out). Heavy foxing to contents which are otherwise clean.

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Front cover

Cover of THE TRUE STORY BOOK by Andrew Lang

Contents

  • A Boy Among the Red Indians
  • Casanova's Escape
  • Adventures on the Findhorn
  • The Story of Grace Darling
  • The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake'
  • Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates
  • The Spartan Three Hundred
  • Prince Charlie's Wanderings
  • Two Great Matches
  • The Story of Kaspar Hauser
  • An Artist's Adventure
  • The Tale of Isandhlwana and Borke's Drift
  • How Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good
  • The Escapes of Cervantes
  • The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe
  • Baron Trenck
  • The Adventures of John Rawlins
  • The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden
  • The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo
  • The Escape of Caesar Borgia
  • The Kidnapping of the Princes
  • The Conquest of Montezuma's Revenge
  • Adventures of Bartholomew Portuguese, a Pirate
  • The Return of the French Freebooters