• LOVER, Samuel “Legends and Stories of Ireland” [H. G. Bohn, n.d./c1850]
  • LOVER, Samuel “Legends and Stories of Ireland” [H. G. Bohn, n.d./c1850]
  • LOVER, Samuel “Legends and Stories of Ireland” [H. G. Bohn, n.d./c1850]
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LOVER, Samuel “Legends and Stories of Ireland” [H. G. Bohn, n.d./c1850]

LOVER, Samuel “Legends and Stories of Ireland” [H. G. Bohn, n.d./c1850]

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LOVER, Samuel. Legends and Stories of Ireland.

London: H. G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, n.d./c1850. New Edition, complete in one volume. 6.5” x 4.5”, 586pp. Contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with gilt titling, marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings, including vignette title page and chapter headings. Arsenic-green bookseller’s ticket of Barrett, Bookseller, 3 New Church St., Alpha Road, to front pastedown. Rubbing and wear to extremities with some chipping to head of spine and surface wear to boards; hinges holding firmly, text generally clean with scattered light foxing and toning. Very Good.

A collection of Irish legends, supernatural folklore, humorous tales, songs, and sketches of rural life, drawing heavily on the oral storytelling traditions of nineteenth-century Ireland. The stories incorporate ghosts, omens, folk beliefs, uncanny encounters, and other elements of Irish superstition alongside comic character studies and scenes of everyday village life.

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