Andrew Lang (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. Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang\'s Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA. He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John Ferguson McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor. The earliest of his publications is Custom and Myth (1884). In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the \"irrational\" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms. Lang\'s Making of Religion was heavily influenced by the 18th century idea of the \"noble savage\": in it, he maintained the existence of high spiritual ideas among so-called \"savage\" races, drawing parallels with the contemporary interest in occult phenomena in England. A classic collection but not for everyone. Parents should pre-read and select stories carefully as some are very blood-thirsty. This is a 1942 edition of the Yellow Fairy Bok, without a dust jacket. Inside is good/fair with one loose tissue sheet, Old sellotape mend to front gutter, boards are slightly grubby, wording on spine faded, 1 stained spread, four or five coloured-in illustration by prev owner.