Author: William Bottrell (An Old Celt)
Title: Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall
Description: penzance, W. Cornish, The Library, Green Market, 1870. First Cornish Edition. Hardcover. Original Rare 1870 First Cornish Edition Very Good Green Hardcover. NOT a library copy. Clean 287 pp. 287 + list of subscribers and advert page. Ex-Libris of Henry Hoare, Stapelhurst with neat bookplate and his signature (See Scan) NO writing in text. Blind tooled on both boards Fantastic spells of Conjurors and White Witches. Interesting with the Cornish Apocryphal association of early Hebrew the spells use Hebrew names of the unseen etc. and "Piskeys" (i experieced them in Lelant) The Giant of Portreath.An rare amazing copy in Very Good at least. Very little foxing. The only flaws are head and heel. You can see in our Scans. Still the best copy I have ever seen in over fifty years, not fine but pretty handsome and crisp. Very Good .
Keywords: rare cornish folklore henry Hoare bookplate english banker cornish charmer white witch spells pellar of zennor conjuror charms saints padstow cornish witches uther cornish literature kernow cornish language noav padstow celtic language kernow cornish medi
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Title: Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall
Description: penzance, W. Cornish, The Library, Green Market, 1870. First Cornish Edition. Hardcover. Original Rare 1870 First Cornish Edition Very Good Green Hardcover. NOT a library copy. Clean 287 pp. 287 + list of subscribers and advert page. Ex-Libris of Henry Hoare, Stapelhurst with neat bookplate and his signature (See Scan) NO writing in text. Blind tooled on both boards Fantastic spells of Conjurors and White Witches. Interesting with the Cornish Apocryphal association of early Hebrew the spells use Hebrew names of the unseen etc. and "Piskeys" (i experieced them in Lelant) The Giant of Portreath.An rare amazing copy in Very Good at least. Very little foxing. The only flaws are head and heel. You can see in our Scans. Still the best copy I have ever seen in over fifty years, not fine but pretty handsome and crisp. Very Good .
Keywords: rare cornish folklore henry Hoare bookplate english banker cornish charmer white witch spells pellar of zennor conjuror charms saints padstow cornish witches uther cornish literature kernow cornish language noav padstow celtic language kernow cornish medi
Price: US$ 300.00 Seller: Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
- Book number: 90005301001129105
- Book number: 90005301001129105
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