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FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND; New and Complete Edition: Edited by T. Wright, with a Memoir of the Author by his Son, T.F. Dillon Croker
by Croker, T. Crofton and T.Wright (Editor)
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- Hardcover
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London, England: William Tegg, 1870. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 12mo. 7.75 in. x 5.25 in. pp. xxxiv, [2], 486, [2]. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings. Contemporary half calf with double rule in blind over blue-green pebbled cloth boards. Gilt title on red panel to spine. Gilt decorative frames to other spine compartments. Five-raised bands to spine. Marbled edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Booksellers ticket (Kitizawa, from Tokyo) to top of front pastedown. Previous owner's ink stamp to front flyleaf. Protected in mylar. Latter-day reprint with a memoir of the author by his son.
"Thomas Crofton Croker, (born Jan. 15, 1798, Cork, Ireland.âdied Aug. 8, 1854, London, Eng.), Irish antiquary whose collections of songs and legends formed a storehouse for writers of the Irish literary revival. The son of an army major, Croker had little school education but did read widely while working in merchant trade. During rambles in southern Ireland from 1812 to 1816, Croker collected legends, folk songs, and keens (dirges for the dead), some of which he sent to the poet Thomas Moore, who acknowledged a debt to him in his Irish Melodies. This collection formed the basis of Researches in the South of Ireland (1824), a pioneering work of vast ethnography, and of his major publication, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-28), which was translated into German by the brothers Grimm and admired by Sir Walter Scott, who described Croker as "little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk, and of easy prepossessing manners." After 1818 Croker lived in England, working as clerk in the Admiralty until 1850. His later works included Popular Songs of Ireland (1839)." (from Britannica).
"Thomas Crofton Croker, (born Jan. 15, 1798, Cork, Ireland.âdied Aug. 8, 1854, London, Eng.), Irish antiquary whose collections of songs and legends formed a storehouse for writers of the Irish literary revival. The son of an army major, Croker had little school education but did read widely while working in merchant trade. During rambles in southern Ireland from 1812 to 1816, Croker collected legends, folk songs, and keens (dirges for the dead), some of which he sent to the poet Thomas Moore, who acknowledged a debt to him in his Irish Melodies. This collection formed the basis of Researches in the South of Ireland (1824), a pioneering work of vast ethnography, and of his major publication, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-28), which was translated into German by the brothers Grimm and admired by Sir Walter Scott, who described Croker as "little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk, and of easy prepossessing manners." After 1818 Croker lived in England, working as clerk in the Admiralty until 1850. His later works included Popular Songs of Ireland (1839)." (from Britannica).
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- 86129
- Title
- FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND; New and Complete Edition: Edited by T. Wright, with a Memoir of the Author by his Son, T.F. Dillon Croker
- Author
- Croker, T. Crofton and T.Wright (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- William Tegg
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1870
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Irish folk tales, Fairy tales, Folk Music, Ethnomusicology, Irish Ethnomusicology, Irish music, Tune collector, Irish Melodies, Irish Ethnography, ABAA-HOLIDAY-2023
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