Traditions of lancashire

ROBY, J

Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829

About this Item

In two volumes. x, [2], 329, [1]; [4], 330pp, [2]. With additional engraved title pages to each volume and a further 12 plates. Bound by Henry Sotheran & Co. in contemporary blind-tooled green half-morocco, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. Rubbed, spines sunned. Marbled endpapers, binder's tickets to FEPs, offsetting, scattered spotting. Armorial bookplates of Conservative politician Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel (1856-1929) to FEPs, with his inked ownership inscription to verso of both FFEPs. The first edition of an influential work on folklore by English banker and poet John Roby (1793-1850). Despite disbelief that a banker could have written such a work, Roby's study was both commercially successful and influential on folklorists. However, as the field advanced, Roby's techniques came under scrutiny, with his rejection of antiquarianism and tendency to conflate the words of locals into varnished, more 'literary' narratives being seen as anti-historical and sometimes derogatory. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditions of lancashire
• Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London
• Publication Date: 1829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.