Andrew Lang
1) The Library
The Library by Andrew Lang is a late 19th-century book published by McMillan & Co. as part of the “Art as Home” series. Continuing the tradition of de Bury’s The Philobiblon and Dibdin’s Bibliomania, The Library is a half-serious look at the craft of book-collecting for the amateur bibliophile.
At times, Lang describes book-hunting as a sport, somewhat analogous to fishing, in which patience
...Andrew Lang 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. (Source: Wikipedia)
This volume is a study of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and its editor Sir Walter Scott.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is an anthology of Border ballads, together with some from north-east Scotland and a few modern literary ballads, edited by Walter Scott. It was first published in 1802. (Source: Wikipedia)
