Classic collection of essays, including: Elzevirs, Ballade of the Real and Ideal, Curiosities of Parish Registers, The Rowfant Books, To F. L., Some Japanese Bogie-books, Ghosts in the Library, Literary Forgeries, Bibliomania in France, Old French Title-pages, A Bookman's Purgatory, Ballade of the Unattainable, and Lady Book-lovers. According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk - July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales."