Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore
In Chimney Corners Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore
Harpers, 1899.
First edition. 8vo. Original publisher's pictorial cloth with wraparound illustration. Pictorial title page, eight colour plates and six line drawings by Pamela Colman Smith. A very good copy, spine a little darkened.
A collection of Irish Folk Tales.
This is the first book of Irish author Macmanus, who retold ancient tales and folk-lore from the oral tradtion in the hope of keeping the stories alive. He encouraged his audience to read aloud, "These tales were made not for reading, but for telling. They were made and told for the passing of long nights, for the shortening of weary journeys, for entertaining of traveler-guests, for brightening of cabin hearths."
Art nouveau bookplate by Charles E. Dawson, drawn for Victorian book collector Eileen Crawford Scott.
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