The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs Among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors
by BRIGGS, K.M
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1959. First edition, Scarce, ex library, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 284pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, light usual library markings, d/w suck down to rear board) in d/w VG- (light rubbing, light soiling, several massive pieces of cover missing, 8cm closed tear to front cover repaired with cellotape, 9cm tear to rear cover repaired with cellotape)
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- Title
- The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs Among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors
- Author
- BRIGGS, K.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul 1959
- Keywords
- Fairies English literature History critics modern first edition
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