Lang published 25 different African stories in his Fairy Book series, with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford; more about Ford.
In the Grey Fairy Book published in 1900, there are five different African folktales. There are no illustrations for The Jackal and the Spring, but the other stories do have illustrations: The Story of Dschemil and Dschemila, The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch, Mohammed with the Magic Finger, and Udea and Her Seven Brothers. All four of the illustrated stories Lang translated from the same source: Märchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis in Nordafrika (Fairy tales and Poems from the City of Tripoli in North Africa) by Hans von Stumme, published in 1898; you can find out more about Tripoli at Wikipedia.
See this Flickr album for larger file sizes. The images below have been resized to fit this blog; I have linked the titles of the stories below to where you can read them in the book.
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