Author: William Bottrell
Title: Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall - Second Series
Description: Penzance, Published by the Author, 1873. First English Edition. Hardcover. Original First 1873 Edition Good Brown blind stamped cloth. 298 pp. NO writing in text. Signed "H. Hurden 1888." Wonderful b/w Also stamped in small ink "Harold Hurden' Front and back endpapers have dark shadow of remains where something must have been laid in. Some foxing and splitting at top of spine and rubs at heel of spine. Sewn in signatures. NOT a library copy. Wonderful b/w little illustration by Joseph Blight particlarlly of Mermaids. (see Scan of one) Illus in public domain. Sections include "The Fairy Tribes""The Witch of Buryan Church-town" The famous folktale "Duffy and the Devil' as well as "The Mermaid of Zennor" You can even visit the carving at the church to this day. "Midsummer Bonfires" and the useful Gossary of living Cornish Words and Local terms" See all our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ill.: Joseph Blight. Good .
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Title: Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall - Second Series
Description: Penzance, Published by the Author, 1873. First English Edition. Hardcover. Original First 1873 Edition Good Brown blind stamped cloth. 298 pp. NO writing in text. Signed "H. Hurden 1888." Wonderful b/w Also stamped in small ink "Harold Hurden' Front and back endpapers have dark shadow of remains where something must have been laid in. Some foxing and splitting at top of spine and rubs at heel of spine. Sewn in signatures. NOT a library copy. Wonderful b/w little illustration by Joseph Blight particlarlly of Mermaids. (see Scan of one) Illus in public domain. Sections include "The Fairy Tribes""The Witch of Buryan Church-town" The famous folktale "Duffy and the Devil' as well as "The Mermaid of Zennor" You can even visit the carving at the church to this day. "Midsummer Bonfires" and the useful Gossary of living Cornish Words and Local terms" See all our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ill.: Joseph Blight. Good .
Keywords: rare cornish book kernow goddess bonfires uther tintagel cornish mermaids zennor spanish armada walter raleigh tintagel redruth journal cornish tin-smelting kernow cornubia joseph of arimathea jew's house tin cornish pagan sites tin mines joseph of arimat
Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
- Book number: 90005301001129108
- Book number: 90005301001129108
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