THE RED TRUE STORY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang
Illustrated by H.J. Ford
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.
in 1895
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THE RED TRUE STORY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang.
Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 1403653
1st.
1895.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Red cloth, gilt titles to spine and illustration to front cover. Black endpapers. Numerous b/w illustrations. 419 pages. All edges gilt. Spine bumped, browned and a little worn at top. Corners are bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Foxing and some fingering throughout.
Front cover
Contents
- Wilson's Last Fight
- The Life and Death of Joan the Maid
- How the Bass was held for King James
- The Crowning of Ines de Castro
- The Story of Orthon
- How Gustavus Vasa won his Kingdom
- Monsieur de Bayard's Duel
- Story of Gudbrand of the Dales
- Sir Richard Grenville
- The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer
- Marbot's March
- Eylau, The Mare Lisette
- How Marbot crossed the Danube
- The piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix
- Bolf Stake
- The Wreck of the 'Wager'
- Peter Williamson
- A Wonderful Voyage
- The Pitcairn Islanders
- A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard upon the island of Assada near Madagascar, in a voyage to India in the year 1686
- The Fight at Svolder Island
- The Death of Hacon the Good
- Prince Charlie's War
- The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition
- The Story of Emund
- The Man in White
- The Adventures of the 'Bull of Earlstoun'
- The Story of Grisett Baillie's Sheep's Head
- The Conquest of Peru