FAIRIES - KEIGHTLEY, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology; Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of various Countries. London: H.G. Bohn. 1860.
8vo. Original green cloth panelled in blind and decorated and lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover; pp. [xvi] + 560; with fine etched fairy frontispiece by George Cruikshank; an unusually clean and fresh copy with just slight rubbing to base of spine and some minor cracking at inner hinges; one tiny, and intriguing, wood-engraved bookplate printed in red with the initials J.D.F.T.
Early edition, first issued in two volumes in 1833, here extensively revised and enlarged. A seminal work on fairy mythology, investigating the lore and legend of various countries and looking into the ways these influenced the writings of Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers.
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