The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
by Briggs, K. M
First edition
Price: $75.00- Bookseller: John Michael Lang Fine Books
- Seller Inventory #: 5780
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1967.
Book Description
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.25". 261pp. A fine copy in a lightly edge worn dust wrapper. A classic work with chapters on the fairy realms, tutelary spirits, forgotten gods and nature spirits, the 'host of the dead', hobgoblins and imps, giants, hags, monsters, fairy beasts and plants, time and the seasons, changelings, fairy wives and lovers, fairies in literature, etc. With many illustrations.
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