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Somerset Folklore
by R. L. Tongue Edited K. M. Briggs
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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About This Item
Original 1965 First The Folk-Lore Society English Edition. Good+ 243 pp. Florida State Library Book Plate. Rubbing with fades on cover and spine. NO writing NO underlines. NO library numbers on spine. Tight binding. Important book despite cover rubs, on West country Witch lore Fairy Faith, Pixies, King Arthur, Leechcraft, Spells, Healing Wells.Tree lore edited by the great Fairy lore Scholar Katherine Briggs See our Three Geese in Flight Scans Cover, Spine, Table of Contents.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9000530099998987851
- Title
- Somerset Folklore
- Author
- R. L. Tongue Edited K. M. Briggs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- The Folk-Lore Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Pages
- 243
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- somerset holy wells leechcraft tree spells pixies english somerset ghosts summer country somerset witches arthurian somerset devon coal miners tin trade joseph of arimathea cornish tin mines cornish photos cornish tin history judea jews cornwall kernow pi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthurian Legend; Celtic Studies; Goddess; Cornish/Brittany/Isle Of Man; Celtic Christianity; Norse/Anglo Saxon/ Middle English/ Elizabethan/German; Medieval, Early Medieval and Tudor;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
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