Description: ULSTER FOLKLORE Author: Andrews, Elizabeth Title: ULSTER FOLKLORE Publication: London, England: Elliot Stock, 1913 Edition: First Edition Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in., pp. xiii, [3], 121. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece, eleven additional plates, and two drawings. Dark red-brown cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners bumped. Slight spine lean. Previous owner's bookplate ("J. Johnston Abraham") to front pastedown. Bookshop label ("The Time Book Club, London") and ink stamp, dated 1914, to rear pastedown. Spine cracked, but holding. Age-toning to pages. Good. NOTE: This is NOT a traditional collection of tales, but rather an approachable, and rather peculiar, tour of Northern Ireland that introduces the important sites, characters, and folk-stories relevant to the regional folklore. From the book's 1913 review published in the journal "Nature": "This dainty volume is made up of a collection of papers communicated to various societies and journals. As much of the information was collected at first hand, the book is a valuable contribution to the literature of Irish folklore. The expressed purpose kept in view was to find, and show, some correspondence between the description of Irish fairies and that of actual pigmies found, dead and alive, in various parts of the world, and that purpose gives unity to the work, which is more of a monograph than a folklore drag-net.The correspondence made out is certainly very striking. There are also rare pigmies to be met with in Ireland as well as elsewhere. But of the actual existence of pigmy communities in Ireland no evidence is given. The fairies there, as elsewhere, haunt 'raths and souterrains.' They occupy Neolithic megalithic structures. The photographs, plans, and descriptions of some fairy souterrains give the work special value. One recognises the invariably oriented creepway." The bookplate belongs to James Johnstone Abraham (1876 - 1963), an Irish surgeon and writer whose later writings included history, biography, autobiography, and many newspaper articles on medical achievements, later republished under the pseudonym ‘James Harpole'. (from Dictionary of Irish Biography). Seller ID: 86432 Subject: Irish & Ireland: Folk Tales, Mythology, Music Aardvark Rare Books Eugene, OR We work hard to make your Bookbuying Experience safe, easy and fun. Aardvark Books is a proud member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America) and IOBA, Independent Online Booksellers Association. Ezra is also an accredited and Qualified Appraiser of Books and Manuscripts, with a designation from the ASA (American Society of Appraisers), with considerable Archive experience as well. Shipping All books shipped to US destinations are sent via the US Postal Service. Faster shipping is available, please ask before paying. We will combine shipping on items purchased at the same time in order to help reduce costs. International shipping is also available. Please inquire for a shipping quote before ordering.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Andrews, Elizabeth
Publisher: Elliot Stock
Year Printed: 1913
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
