Mark Sinker

Michael Ledger-Lomas mentions the illustrations in Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books but not their principal illustrator, H.J. (Henry Justice) Ford, whose work is a large part of what gives Lang’s series its coherence and makes it so memorable (LRB, 4 April). Across twenty-odd years, Ford delivered several hundred plates, interspersed throughout the tales every three or four spreads. They are by no...