POPULAR ROMANCES OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND: The Drolls, Traditions & Superstitions of Old Cornwall. Second Series

Hunt, Robert (Collected and Edited By)

Published by John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1865

About this Item

Splendid collection of Old Cornish Folklore & Legends: Piskies, Spriggans, Giants, Fairies, Mermaids, Tregeagle stories with Dosmery Pool and the Hounds, Lost Cities, and much, much more. Frontispiece has a full page Illustration of "A Flight of Witches". Title Page has vignette illus. of little people and a black creature. Green cloth cover with bright Gilt Illustration a small bearded figure wearing a cloak and conical hat. Bright Gilt lettering and illustration of Giant hand grasping a little man on spine. Beveled Edges. 8" Tall. A little fading to cloth on front and back. Some fraying to cloth at spine ends. Pencil notes on endpaper. No other inscriptions. Faint brown stain on frontis and title page.

Seller Inventory # 020546

Bibliographic Details

• Title: POPULAR ROMANCES OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND: The Drolls, Traditions & Superstitions of Old Cornwall. Second Series
• Publisher: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London
• Publication Date: 1865
• Binding: Decorative Cloth
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cornish Interest
  • Folklore and Legends
  • Fiction