Author: Margaret Baker
Title: The Folklore of the Sea
Description: London, David & Charles, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated study of folklore based around the sea. First edition. Illustrated with nine figures in-text and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of writing on folklore of the sea, including: the building and naming of ships, phantom ships and sailors, talisman and taboos, sea-serpents, and weather-gods. Written by Margaret Baker, a British folklorist and author. From the library of Lord Raglan, Fitzroy John Somerset. Raglan"s great-great-grandfather was Field Marshal Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan and hero of the Battle at Inkerman and Alma in the Crimean War. He also served as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He died in the Crimea in 1855. The house in which the library was situated, Cefn Tilla Court, was purchased by the Raglan Memorial committee for his descendants. Lord Raglan was a keen collector of anthropology and folklore, with many of the works in his extensive library focusing upon this topic.  In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper also very smart with light shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Folklore Sea Baker Sea None


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