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The Peter & Iona Opie Collection of Folklore and Related Topics

Peter and Iona Opie are essentially folklorists working within a tradition of children's literature. In their landmark studies, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1952) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959), as in their subsequent work, they have recorded the folklore of Childhood. They did so directly from the lives of contemporary children as well as from rare and little known books for children, often extending their references to obscure, scholarly works of folklore intended clearly for adult and academic reading. While their great collection of children's books is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, the actual foundation upon which so much of their scholarship rests is in this collection containing approximately 1200 titles.

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The collection is organized into the following categories:

AMERICAN FOLKLORE

1. American Ballads – Naughty, Ribald and Classic. Compiled by Charles O'Brien Kennedy and David Jordan. New York: Fawcett [1956]. Illustrated. 12mo, 272pp; color pictorial wrappers. Second printing, 1ndt in this inexpensive format ("A Premier Book").
2. American Folk Tales and Songs and other Examples of English–American Tradition as Preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and Elsewhere in the United States. Compiled with Introduction and Notes by Richard Chase. [New York:] The New American Library [1956]. Illustrations by Joshua Tolford. 12mo, 239[1]pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition. A "Signet Key Book".
3. The American People in their Stories, Legends, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs. Edited with an introduction by B A Botkin. London: Pilot Press, 1946. 8vo, 340pp; lettered cloth (spine rubbed, stain on rear cover). First British edition. Botkin was in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.
4. Ames (Russell): The Story of America Folk Song. With a Foreword by Helen L Kaufmann. New York: Grosset & Dunlap [1955]. 16mo, xii 276pp; gilt cloth, dust jacket. A volume in the "Little Music Library " series.
5. Aurand (A Monroe, Jr): Popular Home Remedies and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. Foreword by Logan Clendening. Harrisburg: The Aurand Press [1941]. 8vo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers.
6. Aurand (A Monroe, Jr): Quaint Idioms and Expressions of the Pennsylvania Germans. Harrisburg: The Aurand Press [1941]. 8vo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers.
7. Brunvand (Jan Harold): The Vanishing Hitchhiker. American Urban Legends and their Meanings. New York: W W Norton [1981]. 8vo, xiv[I] 208pp; lettered cloth–backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. A fascinating study. With a slip of paper laid in bearing ink notes by Iona Opie citing a similar legend.
8. The Burl Ives Song Book. American Song in Historical Perspective. New York: Ballantine Books [1953]. Illustrations by Lamartine Le Goullon and Robert J Lee. 12mo, [xii] 275[1]; colored pictorial wrappers (spine faded). Second printing (same year as the first) of this collection of songs as sung by Burl Ives, arranged the piano by Albert Hague. One song with Opie ink annotations as well as a slip with their holograph notes.
9. A Celebration of American Family Folklore. Tales and Traditions from the Smithsonian Collection. [Edited by] Steven J Zeitlin, Amy J Kotkin, [and] Holly Cutting Baker. New York: Pantheon Books [1982]. Illustrated. 4to, xii 291[1]pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Selection of photographs and stories collected during the annual Smithsonian Folklore Festival.
10. Dorson (Richard M): American Folklore. [Chicago:] University of Chicago Press [1962]. 8vo, ix[ii] 328[1]pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Third printing (originally published in 1959), presentation copy warmly inscribed by the author to Peter and Iona Opie. Includes a Preface by the future Librarian of Congress, Daniel J Boorstin.
11. Dorson (Richard M): Buying the Wind. Regional Folklore in the United States. [Chicago:] University of Chicago Press [1964]. 8vo, xvii 573[1]pp; lettered cloth–backed boards, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With 2 TLSs from the author to the Opies, one thanking them for remarks about this book. Dorson was Director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.
12. Hufford (Mary): A Tree Smells Like Peanut Butter: Folk Artists in a City School. Trenton: The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1979. Illustrated. 4to, [iii] 65[2]pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Iona Opie.
13. Kentucky Folklore Record. Volume 21, Number 4. October–December 1975. [Bowling Green: Kentucky Folklore Society, 1975]. 8vo, pp[95–]123; pictorial wrappers. With articles by Kenneth Clarke on the similarities between snake handling and academic politics (pp100–104) and by Julia Oxrieder on nursery rhymes (pp105–118).
14. McAtee (W L): "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties" [in] Midwest Folklore, Vol I, No 4. Bloomington: Indiana University, Winter, 1951. 8vo, pp243–267pp + front wrapper. Article deals almost exclusively with children's games and ditties, with considerable marginal notations by previous owner [see below] and the Opies. With TLS from G Legman, "Hallowe'en 1951", indicating he is sending the Opies his own copy of this article.
15. Mitford (Jessica): The American Way of Death. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin, ca1965. 12mo, 238[2]pp; color pictorial wrappers. Mitford's classic critique of American funeral customs.
16. Pound (Louise): Nebraska Folklore. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1959. 8vo, x[I] 243pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
17. Rainbow in the Morning. Edited by J Frank Dobie. Hatboro: Folklore Associates Inc, 1965. 8vo, [iii] 190, 13pp; lettered cloth; dust jacket. Reprint of this important 1926 publication of the Texas Folklore Society (Number V), by the dean of Texas studies.
18. Randolph (Vance): Ozark Superstitions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1947. Vignette illustrations. 8vo, viii[i] 367pp; pictorial cloth, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. Includes chapters on witches, ghost stories, mountain medicine, courtship and marriage, &c.
19. Sidewalks of America. Folklore, Legends, Sagas, Traditions, Customs, Songs, Stories and Sayings of City Folk. Edited by B A Botkin. Indianapolis: Bobbs–Merrill [1954]. Illustrated. 8vo, xii[I] 605pp; pictorial cloth lightly soiled). First edition. Folklore of the American city.
20. (Slavery) Lay My Burden Down. A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B A Botkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [1957]. Plates. 8vo, xxi285[1]pp; pictorial cloth. Third printing (originally published 1945).
21. Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp. Compiled by John A Lomax. London: T Fisher Unwin [1920]. 12mo, 111[1]pp; decorative cloth (spine sunned). First British edition. With unrelated photograph mounted before half–title.
22. Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois. Collected by Charles Neely. Edited with a Foreword by John Webster Spargo. Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Company, 1938. 8vo, xix[ii] 270pp; gilt–lettered cloth (soiled). First edition. Interesting collection of local American legends, ghost stories, folk tales, ballads, nursery rhymes, &c. With 2pp TLS from a Mr H W Harwood presenting this book (as well as newspaper clippings about nursery rhymes), also with various notes in Mrs Opie's and Harwood's hand.
23. Texas and Southwestern Lore. Edited by J Frank Dobie. Austin: Texas Folk–Lore Society, 1927. 8vo, 259[1]pp; pictorial wrappers (rubbed). Original printing of Number VI in the series Publications of the Texas Folk–Lore Society, with articles on Cowboy songs, folk ballads, Indian myths, "Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields", &c.
24. Thorp (N Howard "Jack"): Songs of the Cowboys. Variants, Commentary, Notes and Lexicon by Austin E and Alta S Fife. New York: Bramhall House [1966]. 8vo, [vi] 346pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (rubbed). First edition of this greatly annotated version of Thorp's landmark collection of Cowboy Songs, first published in Estancia, New Mexico in 1908.
25. A Treasury of American Folklore. Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. Edited by B A Botkin. With a Foreword by Carl Sandburg. New York: Crown, ca1944. 8vo, xxvii[I] 932pp; gilt cloth (spine sunned).
26. The University of Missouri Studies. A Quarterly of Research. Volume XV, Number 1. Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk–Lore Society. Edited by H M Belden. Columbia: University of Missouri, January 1, 1940. 4to, xviii[I] 530[3]pp; printed wrappers (creased, extremities worn). Collection of nearly 300 American songs each with scholarly annotations. Provenance: from the library of the Folklore Society London (with ink stamps on title and cover, as well as presentation bookplate).
27. Western Folklore, Volume XX, Number 1 – Volume XXVII, Number 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, January 1961 – April 1968. Together, 29 issues, lacking only Vol XXI, Number 1. 8vo, separate wrappers. A nice run of this quarterly published by the California Folklore Society, each issue with numerous articles, book reviews, and notes & queries.
Lilly Library GR1 .C26
28. What They Say in New England and other American Folklore. Collected by Clifton Johnson. Edited with an Introduction by Carl Withers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. Frontispiece + vignette illustrations. 8vo, xxiv 289pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, an Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip.
29. White (Newman I): American Negro Folk–Songs. Foreword by Bruce Jackson. Hatboro: Folklore Associates, 1965. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xxiv[I] 501pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of this classic 1928 annotated collection.
30. [Withers (Carl):] Plainville, U.S.A. [by] James West. New York: Columbia University Press [1963]. 8vo, xv[iii] 238pp; pictorial wrappers. Third printing of this portrait of small town America, presentation copy from the author to Iona and Peter Opie signed 'Carl "James West" ' (dated 1964 with the note "19 years late"). The author has additional identified the true name of the small town by annotating the half–title "really Wheatville".
31. Withers (Carl). And Jablow (Alta): "Social Sense and Verbal Nonsense in Urban Children's Folklore" [pp243–257 in] New York Folklore Quarterly, Volume XXI, Number 4. Cooperstown: New York Folklore Society, December 1965. 8vo, wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed on the wrapper "Iona and Peter / Carl 18–I–66".

BRITISH FOLKLORE

32. Alford (Violet): Introduction to English Folklore. London: G Bell & Sons [1952]. Plates. 8vo, viii 164pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.With ALS to Peter Opie from the author congratulating him on being elected President of the Folklore Society and discussing other folkloric matters, (21 April 1963).
33. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Translated with an Introduction by G N Garmonsway. London: J M Dent & Sons [1953]. 12mo, xlviii 295pp + 8 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition thus, as part of the "Everyman's Library". Medieval vernacular chronicle, with much information on the common folk.
34. Anson (Peter F): Fisher Folk-Lore. Old Customs, Taboos and Superstitions among Fisher Folk, especially in Brittany and Normany, and on the East Coast of Scotland. London: Faith Press [1965]. 176pp; Frontispiece. 8vo, 176pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With ALS from folklorist Graham Stephen mentioning this book, 7 January 1977.
35. Aubrey (John): Aubrey's National History of Wiltshire. Introduced by K G Ponting. [Devon:] David & Charles Reprints [1969]. Title vignette. 4to, [xi] xii 132pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition thus, comprising a reprint of the 1847 first edition (of texts written in the late 17th century).
36. Baker (Margaret): Folklore and Customs of Rural England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles [1974]. Plates + text illustrations. 8vo, 208pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
37.(Oversize) Baker (Richard): A Chronicle of the Kings of England ... Whereunto is added, The Reign of King Charles the First, and ... King Charles the Second. London: George Sawbridge, and Thomas Williams, 1674. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II (rehinged) + elaborate engraved pictorial title (tear mended on verso), both by W Sherwin. Folio, [xliii]772pp + [42] Index; contemporary calf (quite worn), early rebacking (now worn) with gilt lettering piece. "Sixth Impression" (originally published 1643). With lengthy Opie pencil note on endpaper defending this work.
38. Baring-Gould (S): The Vicar of Morwenstow. Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker. London: Methuen & Co [1919]. 12mo, 220pp; lettered cloth (faded), pictorial dust jacket (chipped). "Seventh edition". Biography of this noted Cornish parson, poet and eccentric, whose ballad the "Song of the Western Men" is the anthem of Cornwall.
39. Blount (Thomas): Fragmenta Antiquitatis; or Antient [sic] Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs of some Manors ... to which are added, Explanatory Notes, and an Index of obsolete and difficult words and phrases, collected from printed books, antient manuscripts, &c. By Josiah Beckwith York: printed by W Blanchard, for the Editor, 1784. 8vo, xix[i] 363pp; contemporary polished calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering piece (a bit rubbed). First edition. John Brand's copy, with his bookplate verso title.
40. Bett (Henry): English Myths and Traditions. London: B T Batsford [1952]. Illustrations by Michael Ayrton (including colored frontispiece). 8vo, ix 148pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
41. Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1874. Folding map frontispiece + additional maps and views. 12mo, xxviii 393pp + 96 local ads (front hinge split); original gilt-lettered cloth. "Eighth edition, revised".
42. Blakeborough (Richard): Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire. With a glossary of over 4,000 words & idioms now in use. Saltburn-by-the-Sea: W Rapp & Sons, 1911. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xv[i] 504pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Second edition (originally published 1898).
43. Boase (Wendy): The Folklore of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. London: B T Batsford [1976]. Illustrations after wood-engravings by George Tute. 8vo, 204pp + [8]indexes; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Part of the series "The Folklore of the British Isles". With TLS from the author.
44. Boulter (B C): The Pilgrim Shrines of England. London: Philip Allan [1928]. Illustrations throughout by the author. 8vo, viii 264pp + map endpapers; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). First edition.
45. Bray (Mrs Anna E): Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire on the Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, illustrative of its manners, customs, history, antiquities, scenery, and natural history, in a series of letters to Robert Southey. London: John Murray, 1838. Complete in three volumes. 8vo, iv[i] 394pp + [1]ad - [iii] 356pp +[4]ads - [iii]373[1]pp (front hinge of first volume split); original gilt-lettered cloth (a bit rubbed and soiled). First edition.
46. Briggs (Katharine M): The Folklore of the Cotswolds. London: B T Batsford [1974]. Illustrations by Gay John Galsworthy. 8vo, 208pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Part of the series "The Folklore of the British Isles". With British Book News slip laid in requesting a review.
47. Brown (Theo): Tales of a Dartmoor Village. Preprinted from Volume XCIII (1961) of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. Plates. 8vo, 34pp; pictorial wrappers. Sub-titled "Some preliminary notes on the folklore of pastbridge". Inscribed by the author to Iona & Peter ... March 1962". With two TLSs from the author to the Opies (3 March 1962, 10 July 1963).
48. Brown (Theo): Trojans in the West Country. St Peter Port, Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1970. Map and text illustrations. 12mo, 16pp; pictorial wrappers. West Country Folklore Series, No 4. Inscribed by the author on front wrapper. Examination of Geoffrey de Monmouth's tale of Aeneas's grandson's adventures in England.
49. Bulley (Margaret H): St George for Merrie England. London: George Allen & Sons, 1908. Fifty-six plates chiefly reproducing works of art. 4to, 40pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine ends frayed). First edition. The lore and iconography of England's patron saint.
50. Burton (Alfred): Rush-Bearing. An Account of the Old Custom of Strewing Rushes; Carrying Rushes to Church; the Rush-Cart; Garlands in Churches; Morris-Dancers; the Wakes; the Rush. Manchester: Brook & Chrystal, 1891. Numerous plates + text illustrations. 4to, x 189pp; lettered decorative cloth. First edition, limited to 500 copies (#92).
51. The Cambridge and County Folk Museum Association. Ninth + Tenth Annual Report[s] for the Year Ended 31st December 1944 * 1945. Cambridge, [1945-1946]. Two volumes, illustrated. 8vo, 7[1]pp + 11[1]pp with pictorial self-wrappers. With related ephemera: the Folk Museum's constitution, flyer announcing its new home, application to become a member, pictorial card with hours , address, &c. Housed together in a plain envelope, captioned by the Opies.
52. Camden (William): Remains Concerning Britain. London: John Russell Smith, 1870. Portrait frontispiece. 12mo, ix [v] 446pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (damp-wrinkled). Facsimile of the 1674 Seventh Impression edited by John Philipot. This great antiquary's work is one of the earliest attempts to record British lore such as Languages, Names, Wise Speeches, Proverbs, Epitaphs, &c. here published in the series "Library of Old Authors".
53. Cardiff 1960 Visit of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. [Cheltenham: Ed. J Burrow, 1960]. Photographic illustrations. 8vo, 80pp; printed wrappers. Chapters on the city of Cardiff, and the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth (including an article on the Welsh Folk Museum).
54. The Cardiff Region. A Survey Prepared for the Meeting of the British Association held in Cardiff 31 August to 7 September 1960. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1960. Plates. 4to, xv 222pp; gilt-lettered cloth, glassine wrapper. First edition. Includes chapters on Place-Names, the Welsh Language, and the Latin, Welsh & English Literary Traditions.
55. Cawte (E C): Ritual Animal Disguise. A Historical and Geographical Study of Animal Disguise in the British Isles. [Cambridge:] D S Brewer, and Roman & Littlefield for the Folklore Society, 1978. Frontispiece + text illustrations. 8vo, xv 293pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News Slip requesting review + printed Opie review (clipped and annotated).
56. Chambers (Robert): Traditions of Edinburgh. London: W & R Chambers, ca1900. With color plates + text illustrations by James Riddel. 8vo, xx[iv] 376pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Originally published in 1825.
57. Chase (Beatrice): Through a Dartmoor Window. London: Longmans, Green, 1915. Eight photographic plates. 8vo, x[i] 272pp; pictorial cloth (cocked, rubbed). First edition.
58. Chaundler (Christine): Everyman's Book of Ancient Customs. London: A R Mowbray & Co [1968]. 8vo, 208pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip laid in requesting review, on which Mrs Opie has written some critical remarks: "Might be described as a book of fairy tales about folklore ...".
59. Cheape (Hugh), and Sprott (Gavin): Angus Country Life. A Companion to the Angus Folk Museum, Glamis. Edinburgh: The National Trust for Scotland, 1980. Illustrations by Colin Hendry, Charles Burnett and Angela Spain. 8vo, [ii] 61[1]pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
60. Christian (Roy): Old English Customs. Newtown Abbot: David & Charles [1972]. Plates. 8vo, 124pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket.
61. Clark (Leonard): Alfred Williams. His Life and Work. Newton Abbot: David & Charles [1969]. Plates. 8vo, xv 206pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Second edition. Biography of this self-educated poet and expert on Wiltshire .
62. Cooper (A N): With Knapsack and Note-Book. London: A Brown & Sons [1906]. Frontispiece + 7 plates. 8vo, viii 303pp + [8]ads; pictorial cloth (rubbed). Local color as observed by the "walking parson".
63. County Folk-Lore. Printed Extracts No 1. Gloucestershire. Edited by Edwin Sidney Hartland * Printed Extracts No 2 Suffolk. Collected and Edited by the Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon. With an Introduction by Edward Clodd * Printed Extracts, No 3. Leicestershire & Rutland. Collected and edited by Charles James Billson. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1892; 1893; 1895. Three volumes in one, as issued with general title-page. 8vo, [i] 58 - xv 202 - [viii] 153[1]pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. The first volume of "County Folk-Lore" issued by the Folk-Lore Society. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
64. County Folk-Lore. Vol II. Printed Extracts No 4. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York and Ainsty. Collected and edited by Mrs Gutch. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1901. 8vo, xxxix 447[1]pp untrimmed; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
65. County Folk-Lore. Vol III. Printed Extracts No 5. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands. Collected by G F Black and Edited by Northcote W Thomas. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1903. 8vo, xii 277pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
66. County Folk-Lore. Vol IV. Printed Extracts No 6. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning Northumberland. Collected by M C Balfour and Edited by Northcote W Thomas. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1904. 8vo, xv 180pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
67. County Folk-Lore. Vol V. Printed Extracts No VII. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning Lincolnshire. Collected by Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908. 8vo, xxiii 437pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
68. County Folk-Lore. Vol VI. Printed Extracts No VIII. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning the East Riding of Yorkshire. Collected and edited by Mrs Gutch. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1912. 8vo, xxvii 235pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
69. County Folk-Lore. Vol VII. Printed Extracts Nos IX, X, XI. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning Fife with Some Notes on Clackmannan and Kinross-Shires. Collected by John Ewart Simpkins. With an Introduction by Robert Craig Maclagan and an Appendix from Ms Collections by David Rorie. London: published by the Folk-Lore Society by Sidgwick & Jackson, 1914. Plates 8vo, xxxi 419pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Detailed study of English folk-lore, with articles on witchcraft, festivals, tales & ballads, games, jungles, proverbs, &c.
70. The Court, City and Country Magazine, or Royal Chronicle of News, Politics, and Literature for Town and Country. By a Society of Gentlemen. Number XIV, May 1765. [London:] J Cooke [1765]. Engraved frontispiece showing the British Museum. 8vo, pp[711-]758; printed wrappers (badly stained, also affecting the interior). Housed in mailing envelope addressed to the Opies (but now captioned with contents). Contains "Instances of ridiculous superstitions" (pp736-739). Also with slip of Opie notes identifying this article.
71. Cox (J Stevens): An Ilchester Miscellany. Ilchester Historical Monograph, No 10, 1958. Illustrations. Small 8vo, pp215-293 (unbound, partly clipped by the Opies). Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. Inscribed with the writer's compliments. Includes notes on ghosts, witchcraft, superstitions, sayings, customs, &c.
72. Crawford (Phyllis): In England Still. [Bristol:] Arrowsmith [1938]. Plates. 8vo, 224pp + pictorial map endpapers; lettered cloth. First edition. A record of vanishing English traditions.
73. Denham (M Aislabie): "Denham Tracts" = remarkable collection of 54 pamphlets printed for this pioneer English folklorist including his last publication, a catalogue of these tracts: "Denham Tracts". A Classified Catalogue of Antiquarian Tomes, Tracts, and Trifles. (Richmond: John Bell, 1859). Various provincial imprints, 1850-1859. 8vo, chiefly 4 to 12 pages; later 3/4 morocco, spine gilt (rubbed, front cover loose). Most of these ephemeral pamphlets were printed in editions of 50 copies and are now exceedingly rare (see below). A delightful gallimaufry of folkloric preservation, with subjects including slogans, rhymes, proverbs, customs, ghosts, Christmas, Fairies, &c. Provenance: Sir William Stirling (with two of his bookplates); also with two tipped-in holograph notes signed with his initials (one dated 1860), describing the contents of this volume. Most significantly, with a sheet laid in bearing Peter Opie's extensive holograph description of this volume: "This collection of the Denham Tracts was formed by Sir William Stirling[-Maxwell] ... as part of his Proverb Collection at Keir ... A few days before Denham died, 10 September 1859, he had a catalogue printed of the 'Tomes, Tracts and trifles' he had written. The present volume contains 51 of the fifty-five items listed, a complete collection being, as Sir Williams remarks in a MS note in 1860 [tipped-in] 'scarcely attainable'. In fact this collection is possibly the most complete in existence; the holding in the British Museum is small, and the difficulty the Folk-Lore Society experienced in borrowing such titles as it reprinted in the two volumes of 1892-95 is described by Sir Laurence Gomme in the Preface. Further this volume, which has Denham's list bound in at the beginning, contains three items not included in the printed list, and the Opie Library contains one of the tracts missing here ...".
74. The Denham Tracts. A Collection of Folklore by Michael Aislabie Denham, Reprinted from the Original Tracts and Pamphlets Printed by Mr Denham between 1846 and 1859. Edited by Dr James Hardy. Vol I * II. London: Folklore Society, by David Nutt, 1892-1895. Complete in two volumes. 8vo, xi 367 - xi 396pp (lacking general title & half-title in first volume, some light staining in same volume); gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition. Excellent reprint of these important and extremely rare early folklore tracts, here with prefaces by G Laurence Gomme. Twenty-one tracts are reprinted
75. The Denham Tracts. A Collection of Folklore by Michael Aislabie Denham, Reprinted from the Original Tracts and Pamphlets Printed by Mr Denham between 1846 and 1859. Edited by Dr James Hardy. II [only]. London: Folklore Society, by David Nutt, 1895[?]. 8vo, 396pp; plain leather-backed boards. Below the title-page imprint reads: "Reprinted in Saxony from the original edition by C G Röder, Ltd., Leipsic".
76. The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art: Collection of Reports and Off-prints from the Association's Transactions, 1957-1987. Together, approximately 21 pieces. Small 8vo, wrappers & self-wrappers. Collection of articles dealing with folklore, many written by Theo Brown (one inscribed by him to the Opies). Also with 8 TLS + one ALS from Theo Brown to the Opies, 1961-1988. Housed together in plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
77. Dewar (H S L): The Giant of Cerne Abbas. Mount Durand, St Peter port, Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1968. Illustration. 12mo, 10pp; pictorial wrappers. West Country Folklore Series, No 1. Presentation copy inscribed by the general editor, Theo Brown. Describes the large chalk-cut figure in Dorset.
78. Ditchfield (P H): Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time. An Account of Local Observances, Festival Customs, and Ancient Ceremonies yet Surviving in Great Britain. London: Methuen, 1901. One full-page illustration. 8vo, xvi 343[1] + 48 ads(scattered foxing); gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded and a bit rubbed). First edition. Substantial list of page citations on front fly-leaf, hand-written by the Opies. Early owners gift inscription and calligraphic verse on prelims.
79. Dorset Up Along and Down Along. A collection of history, tradition, folk lore, flower names and herbal lore gathered together by members of Women's Institutes. Edited by Marianne R Dacombe. Gillingham: T H Brickell & Sons, The Blackmore Press [1935]. Illustrations by Barbara Shaw. 8vo, 130[2]pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Housed in a plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
80. Dorson (Richard M): The British Folklorists. A History. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1968]. Plates. Large 8vo, x 518pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket (rubbed). First edition. A comprehensive study.
81. Drake-Carnell (F J): Old English Customs and Ceremonies. London: B T Batsford [1938]. Colored frontispiece + numerous plates. 8vo, viii 120pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (chipped). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "with the publishers' kind regards. Xmas 1938".
82. Dyer (T F Thiselton): English Folk-Lore. London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. 8vo [ii] viii 290pp + [6]32 ads; gilt-decorative cloth . First Edition.
83. Dyer (T F Thiselton): English Folk-Lore. London: Bogue, 1878. 8vo, viii 290pp; gilt-lettered two-toned cloth . Second Edition, revised.
84. Dyer (T F Thiselton): Folk Lore of Shakespeare. London: Griffith & Farran, ca1883. 8vo, xi 526pp (some foxing); gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). An interesting study of Shakespeare's references to fairies, witches, folk medicine, superstitions, &c.
85. Dyer (T F Thiselton): English Folk-Lore. London: W H Allen, 1884. 8vo viii 290pp; gilt-decorative cloth (a bit rubbed). "New Edition".
86. Dyer (T F Thiselton): Church-Lore Gleanings. London: A D Innes, 1892. Eleven plates. 8vo, vi[i] 352pp; pictorial cloth. First edition. Customs and anecdotes related to English churches.
87. Evans (George Ewart): Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay. London: Country Book Club, 1958. Photographic plates + vignettes by Thomas Bewick. 8vo, 250pp + map endpapers; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine torn). First edition. An early attempt at oral history among the old rural folk of East Suffolk
88. Farquharson-Coe (A): Devon's Legends & Folklore. St Ives, Cornwall: James Pike[1974]. Photographic illustrations. Small 8vo, 31[1]pp; color pictorial wrappers. Preserved in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. First edition.
89. Folk Life. Journal of the Society for Folk Life Studies. Volume[s] 1-3. Cardiff: Folk Life Society, 1963-1965. Together, 3 volumes. Illustrated. 4to, 112-118-112pp; printed wrappers. Articles devoted to the study of traditional ways of life on Great Britain and Ireland.
90. Foster (Jeanne Cooper): Ulster Folklore. Belfast: H R Carter, 1951. Illustrations by Rowel Friers. 8vo, 142pp; lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition.
91. Gascoigne (Margaret): Discovering English Customs and Traditions. [Aylesbury:] Shire Publications [1980]. Plates. 12mo, 64pp; color pictorial wrappers.
92. Gatty (Alfred), Rev.: Sheffield: Past and Present. Being a Biography of the Town during Eight Hundred Years. Sheffield: Thomas Rodgers, 1873. Frontispiece + text illustrations. 8vo, xvii[i] 343pp (front hinge split); original decorative cloth, spine gilt-lettered (worn, backstrip loose). Bookplate. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "With the author's respects / A.G.".
93. The Gentleman's Magazine Library: being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868. Manners and Customs. Edited by George Laurence Gomme. London: Elliott Stock, 1883. 8vo, xiv[i] 302pp + [2] ads untrimmed (loose in binding, endpapers foxed); gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). Bookplate. Excerpts from this great English periodical, devoted to social manners & customs, local customs, and games.
94. The Gentleman's Magazine Library: being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868.. English Traditional Lore: to which is added customs of foreign countries and peoples. Edited by George Laurence Gomme. London: Elliott Stock, 1885. 8vo, xvi 356pp untrimmed (endpapers foxed); gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). Bookplate. Excerpts from this great English periodical, devoted to fairy beliefs, legends & traditions, prophecies, dreams & ghost-stories, &c.
95. The Gentleman's Magazine Library. Popular Superstitions and Traditions. A classified collection of the chief contents of "The Gentleman's Magazine" from 1731 to 1868.. Edited by George Laurence Gomme. London: Elliott Stock, 1887. 8vo, xvi 333pp + [2]ads untrimmed (endpapers foxed); gilt-lettered cloth. Excerpts from this great English periodical, devoted to seasonal customs, superstitions, witchcraft, &c.
Lilly Library GR141 .G634
96. Gibson (Colin): Folklore of Tayside. Introduction by James D Boyd. [Dundee:] Dundee Museum and Art Gallery , ca1960s. Illustrated. Small 8vo, 54[2]pp; pictorial wrappers.
97. The Glasgow Region. A general survey. Edited by Ronald Miller and Joy Tivy. [Edinburgh: British Association] 1958. Photographic plates + maps and tables. 4to, xix 325; gilt-lettered cloth, glassine wrapper. First edition. A comprehensive study of this Scottish region, reaching back to Roman times. It was prepared for the meeting of the British Association in Glasgow in 1958.
98. Gomme (Alice Bertha): The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland with Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing according to the Variants Extant and Recorded in Different Parts of the Kingdom. Introduction by Dorothy Howard. New York: Dover Publications [?1964]. Two volumes. 8vo, xxv 433pp + [17]ads - xii 531pp + [15]ads; pictorial wrappers. Reprint of this important study, originally published1894-1898. With compliments slip from the publisher "and Carl Withers" (together with Dover's 1969 invoice - no charge). With card laid in with list of citations in Peter Opie's hand.
99. Green (Henry): Knutsford: Its Traditions and History: with Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Notices of the Neighbourhood. Manchester: printed by Charles Simms & Co, 1887. 8vo, [iv] 156pp (lacking front fly-leaf); lettered cloth (soiled, rubbed). Second edition (originally published 1859).
100. Gregor (Walter), Reverend: Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North East Scotland. London: published for the Folk-Lore Society by Elliot Stock, 1881. 8vo, [v] xii 238pp (some foxing); original cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition.
(Bound with 611) Halliwell (James Orchard): Descriptive Notices of Popular English Histories. London: Percy Society, 1848. 8vo, [iii] iv 96pp; early 1/2 calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering piece (considerable rubbing, label a bit chipped). Signed on fly-leaf by binder S C Cockerell, Dec 6, 1898. An important early study of English chapbook literature. Bound with two other Percy Society publications: Wright's Songs and Carols (1847) and Sandys's Festive Songs (1848).
102. A Handbook for Travelers in Devon and Cornwall. London: John Murray, 1872. Folding map in rear pocket (torn). 8vo, lxxxi 494 + 84 ads + ads on endpapers (hinges cracked); original gilt-lettered cloth (worn). "Eighth edition, revised". Guide book with much folklore material.
103. Harding (T Walter), Col: Tales of Madingley. Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1912. Thirty three illustrations by H M Brock. 8vo, xx 491pp; gilt cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition. Tales related to this old Cambridge manor house, with historical notes.
104. Harland (John), and Wilkinson (T T): Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c. With an appendix containing a rare tract on the Lancashire witches. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1873. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xxxv 283pp (hinges cracked); original gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition.
105. Harris (P Valentine): The Truth about Robin Hood. A Refutation of the Mythologists' Theories, with New Evidence of the Hero's Actual Existence. London: published by the author, ca1950s. Double-page map. 8vo, 93pp; gilt-lettered and -pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped). First edition.
Lilly Library PR2129 .H135
106. Hazlitt (W Carew): Faiths and Folklore. A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs, Past and Present, with their Classical and Foreign Analogues, Described and Illustrated. London: Reeves & Turner, 1905. Two volumes, each with frontispiece. Small 4to, x 334 - [i] [335-]672pp + [12]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition thus: "A New Edition of "The Popular Antiquities of Great Britain" by Brand and Ellis, largely extended, corrected ... and now first alphabetically arranged". With ink note on front fly-leaf signed "P[eter] O[pie] Nov. 1953" citing a poor review in Folk-Lore (1904) but adding "Not that it is that bad, [the reviewer] had not seen some of the books which were to follow in the century." The first volume bears the Opie's engraved "Mother Goose" bookplate.
107. Henderson (William): Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. With an Appendix on Household Stories by S Baring-Gould. London: Longmans, Green, 1866. Colored lithographed frontispiece after C Burlison. 8vo, xxvii 344pp (loose in binding); original gilt-lettered cloth (a bit rubbed). First edition. Rich, early folk lore study, with an important appendix treating fairy tales ("It is only of late years that household tales have been regarded as of interest by men of learning").
108. Heraldry: Ancient and Modern. Including Boutell's Heraldry, edited and revised, with additions, by S T Aveling. London: Frederick Warne [1873]. Hundreds of illustrations. 8vo, xx 430pp; gilt-lettered and -decorated cloth (lightly soiled). First edition. A standard reference, several time reprinted.
109. Holdenby (Christopher): Folk of the Furrow. With an Introduction by Sir Horace Plunkett. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, ca1913. Frontispiece. 12mo, 374pp + 10 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. Portrait of British rural laborers and their world.
Lilly Library S521 .H60
110. Hole (Christina): English Custom & Usage. London: B T Batsford [1944]. Plates. 8vo, viii151[1]pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (in pieces). Second edition, revised (originally published 1942).
111. Hole (Christina): English Folk-Heroes. London: B T Batsford [1948]. Illustrations from original woodcuts by Eric King (including colored frontispiece). 8vo, x 182pp; lettered cloth (spine head stained), color pictorial dust jacket (extremities torn). First edition. The histories of heroes such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, St George, &c. With TNS from the author to Peter Opie, 5 February 1957.
Lilly Library GR141 .H595
112. Hole (Christina): British Folk Customs. London: Hutchinson [1976]. Illustrated. 4to, 232pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with slip from the British Book News requesting a review from the Opies. A popular guide to British folk lore, alphabetically arranged.
113. Home (Gordon): The Evolution of an English Town. Being the story of the ancient town of Pickering in Yorkshire from Pre-historic times up to the Year of our Lord 1905. London: J M Dent & Sons, 1915. Colored frontispiece, plates and text illustrations. 8vo, xix 299pp; lettered cloth.
Lilly Library DA690 .H765
114. Howells (William): Cambrian Superstitions, comprising Ghosts, Omens, Witchcraft, Traditions, &c. Tipton: printed by Thomas Danks, published by Longman & Co., London, 1831. 12mo, 194pp + [13] contents, subscribers, and errata; original cloth (quite rubbed) with printed spine label (chipped). First edition. Fascinating early collection of Welsh folklore. Pencil notes (non-Opie) covering endpapers and scattered through the text. Signed in ink "H Howells". Rare.
115. Huddleston (N A): Lore and Laughter of South Cambridgeshire. Cambridge: ST Tibbs Press, ca1950s. Two plates + text illustrations. 8vo, 29pp; printed wrappers. Details of the dialect, superstitions, sayings, customs, &c., of South Cambs.
116. Hughes (Jean): A Light-hearted Look at our Shropshire History. Shrewsbury: Wilding & Sons, ca1973. 8vo, 74pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Second edition. With ALS from the author to the Opies, giving them this book and noting its references to nursery rhymes.
117. Hull (Eleanor): Folklore of the British Isles. With a Preface by R R Marett. London: Methuen & Co [1928]. 8vo, [iii-]x 318[2]pp + 8 ads (?lacking half-title and front fly-leaf, front hinge split); gilt-lettered cloth (joints fraying). Ex-library, with bookplates and spine lettering. First edition.
118. Hunt (Cecil): British Customs and Ceremonies. When, Where, and Why. An Informative Guide. London: Ernest Benn [1954]. 8vo, 208pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library DA110 .H79
119. Hunt (Robert): Popular Romances of the West of England or The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall. Collected and edited by ... London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. Etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank. 8vo, [13-]480pp + 32 catalogue (hinges cracked); gilt-pictorial cloth (spine ends worn). "New Edition" (originally published 1865). With slip laid in, with manuscript notes by the Opies detailing bibliography.
120. Hunt (Robert): Cornish Folk-Lore. Truro: Tor Mark Press, ca1960s. 8vo, 48pp; pictorial wrappers.
121. Hunt (Robert), and Jackson (Ruth): The Inkberrow Book. A Supplement to Dr Bradbrooks's History of the Parish. [Printed by Sharp Bros, Evesham, Worcs.] 1974. Two plates. 8vo, 77pp; printed wrappers. Second printing of this pamphlet (same year as the first), inscribed by Ruth Jackson to Iona & Peter Opie. Also with ALS from Jackson to Mrs Opie sending this book and thanking her for information about a game. Contains much local history and folklore, including sections on children's games (annotated by Mrs Opie).
122. Irish Folklore and Tradition. Prepared by the Irish Folklore Commission. Department of Education, ca1938. 12mo, 37pp; printed wrappers. Guide for teachers to encourage students to uncover folklore in their world.
123. It Happened in Hampshire. Doings, Sayings, and Interests, past and present. Collected from Villages in Hampshire by Members of the Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes. Compiled and arranged by Winifred G Beddington and Elsa B Christy. Winchester: Hampshire Federation of Women's Institutes, ca1937. Headpiece illustrations by Vera Love. 8vo, 222[2]pp; pictorial wrappers (chipped, rear cover detached). With page laid in of Opie manuscript notes relating to Hampshire (mentioning this work).
124. Jessopp (Augustus): The Coming of the Friars. London: Ernest Benn [1930]. 12mo, [vii] 344pp (hinge cracked); lettered cloth (cocked). Twenty-first Impression (originally printed in 1888). Essays on late Medieval English life including "Village Life in Norfolk Six Hundred Years Ago" (pp53-112).
125. Jones (Alison): Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. {Edinburgh:] Larousse [1996]. Text illustrations. 12mo, ix 493pp; pictorial wrappers.
Lilly Library GR35 .J664 1995
126. Judge (Roy): The Jack-in-the-Green. A May Day custom. [Cambridge:] D S Brewer Ltd for the Folklore Society, 1979. Illustrations. 8vo, xii 145pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip requesting a review.
127. Lancaster (Joan C): Godiva of Coventry. With a chapter on the folk tradition of the story by H R Ellis Davidson. Coventry: Coventry Corporation, 1967. Eighteen plates. 8vo, ix 114pp + pictorial endpapers; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Ms Davidson. With autograph note laid in written by Peter Opie, indicating "This is my ideal book..." (perhaps intended as a blurb). Coventry Papers, No 1.
128. Laneham (Robert): Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575. Edited with Introduction by F J Furnivall. London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Frontispiece + three plate. 8vo, clxxxii [i]87[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition thus. A fascinating document (here with massive annotations), partly dealing with the romances and ballads found in a friend's library ("Captain Cox's Story-books").
Lilly Library DA690 .K4 L2
129. Leather (Ella Mary): The Folk-Lore of Herfordshire. Collected from Oral and Printed Sources. With an Introduction by Edwin Sidney Hartland. Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, 1912. Thirty plates. 4to, xxviii 286[2]pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Card laid in with Opie autograph notes.
130. MacCulloch (Sir Edgar): Guernsey Folk Lore. A collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island. Edited by Edith F Carey. London: Elliot Stock, 1903. Portrait frontispiece + numerous full-page illustrations. Large 8vo, 616pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library GR153 .G9 M2 1903
131. Maclagan (Robert Craig): The Games & Diversions of Argyleshire. Compiled by... London: published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1901. Three plates. 8vo, vii 270pp; original decorative cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition. Comprehenssive study of Scottish games.
Lilly Library GR145 .A7 M3
132. Manchester and its region. A survey prepared for the meeting held in Manchester August 29 to September 5, 1962. [Manchester:] published for the British Association by Manchester University Press [1962]. Photographic plates and maps. 4to, xviii265pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust wrapper. First edition. Comprehensive study of this British region, reaching back to Roman times.
Lilly Library DA690 .M4 C3
133. M'Bain (J M): Arbroath: Past & Present. Being Reminiscences chiefly relating to the last half century. Arbroath: Brodie & Salmond, 1887. 8vo, [iii]ii 357pp + ix index; pictorial cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First (and only) edition. An usual imprint. The author is described on the title as "Banker, Arbroath".
134. The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend 1887-1890. London: printed and published for the Proprietors of the "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle" by Walter Scott, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1887-1890. Four volumes, generously illustrated with wood-engravings. 4to, each over 500pp; original gilt-pictorial cloth (second volume a bit spotted but generally quite bright). Volume I, No 1 to Volume IV, No 46, comprising the first four (of five) volumes published. A gold mine of folkloric information. The first volume includes as issued "The Jubilee Chronicle of the Newcastle Exhibition" (112pp).
Lilly Library GR1 .N6 year
135. Moonrakings. A Little Book of Wiltshire Stories told by Members of Women's Institutes and arranged by Edith Olivier and Margaret K S Edwards. Warminster: printed by Coates & Parker, "Journal" Office, ca1920. Frontispiece. 8vo, 100pp; pictorial wrapper. Later protective envelope, extensively labeled by the Opies. Delightful melange of odd bits of information, with chapters on games & customs, superstitions & ghosts, rhymes & folk songs, etc.
136. Moore (John): Portrait of Elmbury. London: Readers Union / Collins, 1946. 8vo, 224pp; lettered cloth. First edition. Portrait of a West Country market town (Elmbury being a pseudonym).
Lilly Library PR6025 .O572 P853
137. Moore (John): Brensham Village. London: Collins [1951]. Frontispiece by Clifford & Rosemary Ellis. 8vo, 223pp; lettered cloth (discolored), color pictorial dust jacket. Third printing (original published 1946). Companion to the previous title.
Lilly Library PR6025 .O572 B7 1946
138. Morley (Henry): Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1892. Numerous illustrations. 8vo, xxviii 404pp (rear hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (extremities rubbed). Fourth edition (original published in 1857) but with Opie pencil note on endpaper: "This is the best edn [sic] with Epilogue dated 1892". Also with sheet of Opie manuscript notes about the "Bartholomew Fair" (a celebrated London street festival).
139. Newman (L F): "Some Notes on the Folklore of Cambridgeshire and the Eastern Counties" [in] Cambridge Public Library Record and Book-List. Edited by WA Fenton and W H Swift. Vol VIII, no 29. Cambridge, January, 1936. 8vo, pp10-19; printed wrappers.
140. Noake (John): Notes and Queries for Worcestershire. London: Longman, 1856. Small 8vo, xxiii 343pp + 24 catalogue (hinges cracked); original gilt-lettered cloth (worn). First edition.
141. Norman (Philip): London Signs and Inscriptions. With an Introduction by Henry B Wheatley. London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Illustrations by the author and others. 8vo, xx 237pp (hinges cracked); two-toned cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition. Issued in "The Camden Library" series.
142. The North Staffordshire Field Club. Annual Report and Transactions 1895-96 Vol XXX * 1900-1901. Vol XXXV * 1908-1909. Vol XLIII. (Edited by W Wells Bladen). Stoke-upon-Trent: Vyse & Hill [1896]; Stafford: J & C Mort, [1901]; 1909. Three volumes, each with plates. 8vo, printed wrappers (spotted, a bit chipped). Includes a variety of articles, such as "Traditional History in North Staffordshire" by S A H Burne.
143. The North-East of Scotland. A Survey prepared for the Aberdeen Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1963. Aberdeen: published by the Local Committee, by the Central Press, 1963. Folding map + plates. 4to, viii 256pp; printed wrappers. First edition. Includes a chapter on The Highland Folk Museum at Kingussie.
Lilly Library DA867 .B7
144. Northall (G F): English Folk-Rhymes. A Collection of Traditional Verses relating to Places and Persons, Customs, Superstitions, etc. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1892. 8vo, xii 565pp; untrimmed; original gilt-lettered cloth (spine split, faded, extremities worn). First edition. Extensive Opie pencil note on half-title: "Perhaps the true forerunner of our book... " [i.e., The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes].
145. Norwich and Its Region. [Norwich:] British Association for the Advancement of Science [1961]. Folding map in rear pocket + many text illustrations. 4to, 224pp; color pictorial boards. First edition. Includes chapters on Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, Place-Names, &c.
Lilly Library DA670 .N6 B86
146. Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorsert. Vol I, Part VIII; Vol II, Part XII; Vol III, Part XXII. Edited by Hugh Norris [then Frederic William Weaver] and Charles Herbert Mayo. Sherborne: printed by J C Sawtell, December 1890 - June 1893. Illustrated. 8vo, original printed wrappers (soiled). A rich load of local folklore.
147. O'Sullivan (Sean): The Folklore of Ireland. London: B T Batsford [1974]. Illustrations by John Skelton. 8vo, 189pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Issued in the "Folklore of The British Isles" series. With British Book News slip asking Mrs Opie for a review.
148. Owen (Trefor M): Welsh Folk Customs. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, Welsh Folk Museum, 1959. Plates. 8vo, 258pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Includes descriptive catalogue of 567 items.
Lilly Library GR149 .O8 1959
149. Owen (Trefor M): What Happened to Welsh Folk Customs? London: Folklore Society, 1985. 8vo, [15]pp; printed wrappers. The Katharine Briggs Lecture No.4 delivered 6 November 1984 to the Folklore Society at University College London.
150. Oxfordshire and District Folklore Society Annual Record[s] . No[s] 3 * 4 * 6 * 8. [Oxford] 1951- 1956. Four volumes. 8vo, printed wrappers. Housed in later plain wrapper captioned by the Opies. Includes folklore details.
151. Palmer (Kingsley): The Folklore of Somerset. London: B T Batsford [1976]. Illustrations by Gay John Galsworthy. 8vo, 186pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Part of the series "The Folklore of the British Isles".
Lilly Library GR142 .S58 P34
152. Peate (Iorwerth C): A Unitarian Romantic. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society , Vol XIII, No 3. London, 1965. 8vo, 14pp; printed wrappers. Reflections on the pioneering Welsh folklorist Edward Williams (i.e., Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826). With printed "with compliments" slip from the curator of the Welsh Folk Museum.
153. Peate (Iorwerth C): Tradition and Folk Life. A Welsh View. London: Faber & Faber [1972]. Plates. 8vo, 147pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With card laid in, bearing Opie manuscript notes.
154. The Peasantry of Dorsetshire 1846. Reprinted from The Illustrated London News, September 5th, 1846. Edited by J Stevens Cox. Beaminster, Dorset: J Stevens Cox at the Toucan Press, 1963. Illustrated. 8vo, 8pp; decorative wrappers. Inscribed "Christmas Greetings, from Jim, Helen & Gregory Cox".
155. Porteous (Crichton): The Well-Dressing Guide. [Derby: Derbyshire Countryside Ltd, 1973]. Color illustrations. 8vo, [i] 32[1]pp including endpapers; color pictorial wrappers. Describes the decoration (i.e., "well-dressing") applied to "miracle" or curative wells in Britain.
156. Porter (Enid): Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore. With Fenland material provided by W H Barrett. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1969]. Plates. 8vo, xvii 419pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; also with TLS from Sybil Greatbatch at the New Society asking Peter Opie for a review.
157. Porter (Enid): The Folklore of East Anglia. London: B T Batsford [1974]. Illustrations by Gay John Galsworthy. 8vo, 192pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Part of the series "The Folklore of the British Isles". With British Book News slip laid in requesting a review.
158. Ramsay (E B): Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character. [London:] John Lane, The Bodley Head [1928]. 12mo, [iii-]xxix[I] 350[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). Originally published in 1857, this is the first printing in the "Week-End Library" series.
Lilly Library DA818 .R18 1928
159. Rhys (John): Celtic Folklore. Welsh and Manx. London: Wildwood House [1980]. Two volumes. 8vo, [xxxii] 400 - [ii] [401-]718pp; color pictorial wrappers. Reprint of this 1901 classic.
Lilly Library GR150 .R479
160. Richardson (A E): The Old Inns of England. With a foreword by Sir Edwin Lutyens. London: B T Batsford [1938]. Colored frontispiece and black-and-white text illustrations by Brian Cook + photographic plates. 8vo, x 118pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (edges worn). Third edition, revised (originally published in 1934).
Lilly Library GT3843 .R53 1938
161. Robin (P Ansell): Animal Lore in English Literature. London: John Murray [1936]. Plates. 8vo, ix 196pp; lettered cloth (spotted). Originally published in 1932.
Lilly Library PR149 .A5 R6 1936
162. Roby (John): Traditions of Lancashire. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872. Two volumes, both with plates and text vignettes. 8vo, xxviii 468 -[vi] 443pp; original gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). Fifth edition (originally published 1829).
163. Roscoe (Thomas): Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales: with the Scenery of the River Wye. London: Tilt and Bogue, et al, ca1840. With folding colored map + 50 engraved plates (including pictorial title) after designs by Harding, Fielding, Cox, Creswick and Cattermole. 8vo, [x] 284[2]pp + [1]ad (a bit sprung, a few plates loose); original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt (upper cover partially discolored). Early, expanded edition of this classic (original published in 1837).
164. Rye (Walter): Songs, Stories, and Sayings of Norfolk. Norwich: Agas H Goose, 1897. 12mo, [v] 160pp + [2]ads; printed wrappers (chipped). First edition.
165. Scotsgate. Lore, Legends and Customs. Edited by Ian D Hendry and Graham Stephen[Edinburgh:] Oliver & Boyd [1978]. Text illustrations. 8vo,107[1]pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Mr Stephen to Peter & Iona Opie.
166. Scotsgate. Rhymes, Legends and Traditions. Edited by Ian D Hendry and Graham Stephen[Edinburgh:] Oliver & Boyd [1982]. Text illustrations. 8vo, 96pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Mr Stephen to Iona Opie.
167. Shaw (Frank): My Liverpool. London: Wolfe [1971]. Photographic illustrations. 8vo, 239pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Local lore by a native Liverpudlian. With TLS from the publisher sending this book to the Opies.
Lilly Library DA690 .L8 S45
168. Shaw (Thomas): The History of Wharfdale. Otley: William Walker, 1830. Copper-engraved frontispiece after Mounsey. 12mo, [iii-]vi 189pp (?lacking half-title); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt (spine chipped). First edition. Detailed history of this region, "well attested by ancient records". Rare.
169. Shropshire Folk-Lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings. Edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne from the Collection of Georgina F Jackson. London: Trübner, 1883. Folding colored map. 8vo, xiv[ii] 663[1]pp (loose from binding); contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (edges and joints quite rubbed). First edition. An important study, dealing with all facets of folk lore, including such Opie favorites as children's games and jingles.
170. Simcoe (H A), editor: Light from the West; or, The Cornish Parochial Visitor. Cornwall: H A Simcoe Penheale-Press, published by Simpkin & Marshall, L B Seeley & Sons, London [et al], 1834. Woodcut title vignette + occasional text woodcuts. 12mo, [48-]284pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rather worn). Provincial periodical with a religious bent, comprising Vol I, No 3 (March, 1832) to Vol III, No 12 (December, 1834)
171. Smith (Alan): Discovering Folklore in Industry. Tring: Shire Publications, ca1969. Plates. 12mo, 48pp; pictorial wrappers. Part of the "Discovering" series.
Lilly Library GR890 .S63
172. Simpson (Jacqueline): The Folklore of Sussex. London: B T Batsford [1973]. Illustrations by Gay John Galsworthy. 8vo, 187pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library GR142 .S79 S55
173.(Oversize) Sims (George R), editor: Living London. Its Work and Its Play. Its Humour and Its Pathos. Its Sights and Its Scenes. London: Cassell, 1902-1903. Complete in three volumes, each with frontispiece + many text illustrations. Large 4to, viii 384 - viii 384 - viii 383[1]pp (hinges in vol II cracked); 3/4 morocco, spines richly gilt (boards a bit stained, spines rubbed). First edition. Nearly 200 articles on all aspects of London life, and filled with city folklore.
174. Six Old English Chronicles. Edited with illustrative notes by J A Giles. London: Henry G Bohn, 1848. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xx 512pp + [6]ads tipped to front endpapers; gilt-lettered cloth (faded). Six chronicles of life in Britain before the Norman Conquest: "Ethelwerd's Chronicle", "Gildas", "Assers's Life of Alfred", "Monmouth's British History" , "Nennius", and "Richard of Cirencester".
175. Speight (Harry): Kirkby Overblow and District. Being a Record of the History, Antiquities, Folk-Lore, and Old Customs of the Ancient Parish of Kirkby Overblow. London: Elliot Stock, 1903. Map + photographic text illustrations. 8vo, 169[3]pp; original lettered cloth (lightly soiled). First edition.
176. Squiers (Granville): Secret Hiding-Places. The Origins, Histories and Descriptions of English Secret Hiding-Places Used by Priest, Cavaliers, Jacobites & Smugglers. London: Stanley Paul [1933]. Numerous plates. Large 8vo, 288pp(hinges reinforced); gilt-lettered cloth (cocked, rubbed). Ex-library, with card pocket roughly removed and blind stamp on title.
177. Steer (Francis W): The History of the Dunmow Flitch Ceremony. With a Foreword by J W Robertson Scott. Chelmsford: Essex County Council, printed by J H Clarke, 1951. Color frontispiece + plates. 8vo, x 72pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (lightly spotted). First edition. With prospectus laid in + printed presentation slip pasted to endpaper.
178. Stewart (William Grant): The Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland. London: Aylott & Jones [1851]. Lithographed frontispiece. 12mo, xiv[I] 203pp; original gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). "New edition" (originally published 1823). Chiefly ghosts, fairies, and witches.
179. The Story of Long Sutton. Compiled by Mrs E A Smith. Published by the Long Sutton Women's Institute, duplicated by J & R Denner, Wells, Somerset [1953]. Plates. 8vo, 31pp; printed wrappers. History of this English parish, with notes on local customs.
180. Suffling (Ernest R): The Land of the Broads. A Practical and Illustrated Guide to the Extensive but little-known District of the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk. Stratford: Benjamin Perry [1885]. Folding colored map frontispiece + numerous illustrations (including plates). 8vo, viii 322pp + [8] local ads; color pictorial cloth (soiled). "Illustrated Edition". Contains a substantial chapter on "The Characteristics and Dialect of East Norfolk Natives".
Lilly Library DA670 .N6 S946
181. Suilleabhain (Sean O): A Handbook of Irish Folklore. Hatboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, 1963. 8vo, [iv]xxxi[i] 699pp;gilt-lettered cloth, glassine, card slipcase. Facsimile reprint of the 1942 first edition. Authoritative.
182. Suilleabhain (Sean O): Irish Wake Amusements. Cork: Mercier Press [1967]. 12mo, 188pp + [3]ads; color pictorial wrappers. First English-language edition (translated by the author from his original Irish).
183. Superstitions in Angus. Angus District Council Libraries & Museum Service, ca1960s. Text illustrations. 4to, [iv] 30[1]pp; pictorial wrappers. Descriptions of local customs and folklore about charms, remedies, fisherfolk, &c.
184. Symonds (John): Dorsetshire Folk-Lore. With a Fore-Say by William Barnes. Hertford: printed by Stephen Austin & Sons, 1922. 8vo, xi 406pp; original printed boards, printed spine label. First edition ("issued by subscription"). Inscribed by the author "Presentation Copy: with the Author's compliments to the Conservative Club June 1922" (with their bookplate). Important study with chapters on calendar and seasonal customs, local legends & superstitions, witchcraft & charms, ballads & songs, children's games & rhymes (p333-397), &c.
185. Swire (Otta F): The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd [1966]. Illustrated. 8vo, vi[ii] 244pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip laid in requesting a review.
186. Thornicroft (L B): The Story of the Doones in fact, fiction and photo. Taunton: Barnicott's Limited [1939].. Text illustrations + folded map (laid in). Oblong 12mo, printed wrappers. Folklore surrounding Blackmore's Lorna Doone (1869).
187. Timbs (John): Clubs and Club Life in London. With anecdotes of its famous coffee-houses, hostelries, and taverns, from the Seventeenth Century to the present time. London: Chatto & Windus, ca1879. Frontispiece + many illustrations. 8vo, [i] ad, xiv[ii] 544pp + 40 ads; gilt-lettered and -pictorial cloth (top joint starting).
188. Tocher. Tales Songs Tradition selected form the Archives of the School of Scottish Studies. [Numbers] 28-37. [Edinburgh: School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh] 1978-1982. Together, 9 volumes, some with illustrations. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. "Tocher" is Scots for "dowry".
189. Tongue (R L): Somerset Folklore. Edited by K M Briggs. London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1965. 8vo, 243pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "To Iona & Peter Opie / With all my thanks for the years of encouragement ..." (she has also written their names on the jacket).
190. A View of Ireland. Twelve Essays on Different Aspects of Irish Life and the Irish Countryside, edited by James Meenan & David A Webb, Dublin: published for The British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1957. Seventeen plates + folding map in rear pocket. 4to, xv 254pp; gilt-lettered cloth, glassine with web-like pattern. First edition. Includes chapter on "Local Traditions". Signed by Peter Opie on the fly-leaf, where he also notes it was presented to him at the 1957 meeting for which this volume was created.
191. Walcott (Mackenzie E C): Traditions and Customs of Cathedrals. Longmans, Green, 1872. 8vo, xii 248pp + 32pp ads & index (hinges cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (spine edges worn). Second edition, revised and enlarged.
192. Watson (W G Willis): Somerset Life & Character. London: Folk Press, 1924. Photographic frontispiece. Small 8vo, 115pp + [5]ads; pictorial wrappers. First edition. The Somerset Folk Series, Number 17.
193. Welsh Folk Museum Handbook. Cardiff: National Museums of Wales, 1960. Illustrated. 8vo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers.
194. Williams (Alfred): Villages of the White Horse. London: Duckworth, 1913. Map frontispiece. 8vo, xv 290pp + [2]19[1]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (extremities rubbed, a bit soiled). First edition. A sketch of this region of England
195. Wilson (Edward Meryon): "Some Extinct Kendal Customs" [off-print from] Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society's Transactions, Vol XXXVIII-New Series. Kendal: printed by Titus Wilson & Son, 1938. 8vo, pp164-179; printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author.
196. Wilson (Edward M): "Folk Traditions in Westmorland" [off-print from] Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol II, No 3. [Bloomington, December 1965]. 8vo, pp276-293; printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author.
197. A Worcestershire Book. Compiled from material supplied by Members of the Worcestershire Federation of Women's Institutes. [Edited by] Mildred Berkeley [and] Caroline E Jenkins. Worcester: Worcestershire Federation of Women's Institutes [1932]. Small 8vo, 95[1]pp; printed wrappers. First edition. Includes chapters on Worcestershire superstitions, songs, games, &c.
198. Wright (Ann): Folk Lore of Holderness. [Beverley:] published by Hedon and District Local History Society [1978]. Text illustrations. 8vo, [23]pp; pictorial wrappers. Hedon Local History Series, No 4. The Opies have annotated the cover title, identifying where in England Holderness is located.
199. Wright (Elizabeth Mary): Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913. 8vo, xx 341[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (a bit rubbed & soiled). First edition. An important work on the appearance of folklore in dialect speech: superstitions, popular sayings, charms, customs, children's games, supernatural beings, &c.
200. Wright (Thomas): Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages. London: John Russell Smith, 1846. Two volumes. 12mo, [iii-]xii 304 - [iii-]vi 306pp (?lacking half-titles); 19th century polished calf, spines with lettering pieces. First edition. Chapters on Grimm's German mythology, proverbs & popular sayings, fairy mythology, Robin Hood, &c.
201. Wyndham (Margaret): Mrs Paddick. London: Chapman & Hall [1947]. 8vo, 183pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The author acts this Sussex village woman's Boswell, recording her conversations on country ways and customs, sayings and superstitions.
Lilly Library PR6045 .Y8 M7
202. York. A Survey 1959. [York:] Local Executive Committee on the occasion of the meeting of the British Association in York, 1959. Diagram, illustrations + maps (one folding). 8vo, [vii] 198pp; gilt-lettered leatherette, glassine wrapper. First edition. Another detailed British Association study.
Lilly Library BX5107 .Y6 1959
203. Yorkshire Bibliographer. Edited by J Horsfall Turner. Vol I. Bingley: printed for the Editor, by T Harrison, 1888. Illustrations. 8vo, 256pp but lacking pp5-32 + numerous pages partly clipped; disbound, laid into protective folder. With articles on chapbooks, etc.
204. Yorkshire County Magazine, with which are incorporated the Yorkshire Notes & Queries, Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal, Yorkshire Genealogist, and Yorkshire Bibliographer. Edited by J Horsfall Turner. Part I [to] XII, January - December, 1891. Together, 12 parts as issued in 8 volumes, with plates and maps. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Rare, especially in this state.
205. Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal: With Notes Comical and Dialectic. Vol I. Edited by J Horsfall Turner. Bingley: printed for the editor, by T Harrison, 1888. Portrait frontispiece (water-stained) + text illustrations. 8vo, [iv] 245[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Bookplate. Bound with: Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Edited by J Horsfall Turner. Vol I. Bingley: printed for the editor, by T Harrison, 1888. Folding plates + text illustrations. 8vo, [iv] 256pp ("Folklore Society" stamp on title canceled).

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206. Adams (Anthony), Leach (Robert), and Palmer (Roy): Feast and Seasons. Autumn. [Glasgow:] Blackie [1977]. Numerous text illustrations. 4to, [vi] 58pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Oxford University Press with compliments slip laid in.
Lilly Library GT3933 .F2 1977
207. Auld (William Muir): Christmas Traditions. New York: Macmillan, 1931. One full-page illustration. 8vo, 179pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American edition.
Lilly Library GT4985 .A8
208. Baker (Margaret): Christmas Customs and Folklore. A 'Discovering' Guide. Tring: Shire Publications [1968]. Illustrations. 12mo, 47[1]pp; pictorial wrapper.
Lilly Library GT4985 .B25
209. Baker (Margaret): Discovering Christmas Customs and Folklore. A guide to seasonal rites. [Aylesbury:] Shire Publications [1979]. Illustrations. 12mo, 56pp; pictorial wrappers. Expanded version of the previous item.
Lilly Library GT4985 .B25 1972
210. Ballam (Harry), and Morton (Phyllis Digby), editors: The Christmas Book. [London:] Sampson Low, ca1960. Numerous illustrations (a few in color). 8vo, 260[1]pp; gilt-lettered and -pictorial cloth (spotted). An anthology of Christmas texts including Dickens, Washington Irving, Huxley, &c.
Lilly Library PN6071 .C6 B28
211. Banks (Mrs M Macleod): British Calendar Customs. Orkney & Shetland. London: William Glaisher, for the Folk-Lore Society, 1946. 8vo, xii 110pp + [1]ads; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library GR145 .O7 B3
212. Banks (Mrs M Macleod): British Calendar Customs. Scotland. Vol I: Movable Festivals, Harvest, March Riding & Wapynshaws, Wells, Fairs. With a Preface by J A MacCulloch. London: William Glaisher, for the Folk-Lore Society, 1937. 8vo, xix 202[1]pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library GT4845 .A2 B3 v.1
213. Banks (Mrs M Macleod): British Calendar Customs. Scotland. Vol II: The Seasons, The Quarters, Hogmanay, January to May. London: William Glaisher, for the Folk-Lore Society, 1939. 8vo, xii 253pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library GT4845 .A2 B3 v.2
214. Banks (Mrs M Macleod): British Calendar Customs. Scotland. Vol III: June to December, Christmas, The Yules. London: William Glaisher, for the Folk-Lore Society, 1941. Eight plates. 8vo, xii 266pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth (soiled). First edition.
Lilly Library GT4845 A2 B3 v.3
215. Bell (Charles C): The Children's Round of Fast and Festival. London: A R Mowbray, [1922]. Numerous full-page illustrations. Square 8vo, 126pp + [2]ads; cloth-backed pictorial boards (edges rubbed). A child's introduction to the Christian holy days.
Lilly Library BV43 .B4 1922
216. The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar including Anecdote, Biography, & History ... Oddities of Human Life and Character. Edited by R Chambers. London: W & R Chambers, 1963-64. Complete in two volumes, both with pictorial titles in red and black + numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. 4to, [vii] 831[1] - [iv] 839[1]pp; contemporary half-leather over marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spines with morocco labels (chipped). First edition. Massive compilation, arranged in calendar fashion.
Lilly Library DA110 .C5 1863 v.1, v.2
217. The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar including Anecdote, Biography, & History ... Oddities of Human Life and Character. Edited by R Chambers. London: W & R Chambers, ca1860s. Volume II only (of two), with pictorial titles in red and black + numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. 4to, [vii] 839[1]pp; 1/2 leather, spine gilt with labels (rubbed, boards stained). With "corrigenda".
Lilly Library DA110 .C5 1869 v.2
218. Burland (C A): Echoes of Magic. A Study of Seasonal Festivals through the Ages. London: Peter Davies [1972]. Text illustrations. 8vo, [vi] 234pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library GT4843 .A2 B8 1972
219. A Calendar of Old English Customs still in being. [Reading: Mark Savage, ca1935]. 8vo, 63[1]pp; printed wrappers. Chronological listing of English holidays, annotated with bits of custom or folklore.
Lilly Library DA110 .H59
220. Chronicles of the Seasons, or, The Progress of the Year; being a Course of Daily Instruction and Amusement. London: John W Parker, 1844. Three volumes only (of four), each with text illustrations. 12mo, gilt-lettered cloth. Each volume is devoted to a three month period: we lack volume III (July, August, September).
Lilly Library GR930 .C43 1844 v. 1, 2, 4
221. Circle of the Seasons, and Companion to the Calendar and Almanack, 1829. London: Hookham, et al [1828]. Engraved title. 8vo, iv 432pp untrimmed; original boards (worn, cover loose), engraved spine label (chipped). "Second edition, Enlarged". Daily entries giving saints' days, feasts, &c., as well as botanical, astronomical, historical information.
222. [Craik (Mrs), i.e., Dinah M Mulock:] Our Year: A Child's Book, in Prose and Verse. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1860. Frontispiece, 12 plates + numerous text illustrations by Clarence Dobell. 12mo, [vi] 313pp + [6]ads; gilt-pictorial cloth (rubbed). First edition. Poems and stories for children on seasonal happenings. With card laid in bearing Opie note identifying the author.
Lilly Library PZ61 .V68 C8 1860
223. Crippen (T G): Christmas and Christmas Lore. London: Blackie & Son, 1923. Frontispiece + seven plates. 8vo, viii[i] 221pp; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth (rubbed). First edition.
Lilly Library GT4985 .C7
224. Edwards (Gillian): Hogmanay and Tiffany. The Names of Feasts and Fasts. London: Geoffrey Bles [1970]. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. 8vo, [vi] 184pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. First edition. Publisher's {compliments of the author" slip. Also, autograph card signed from the author to Peter Opie, 27 August 1970, thanking him for his praise of this book (with original mailing envelope).
Lilly Library PE1574 .E347 1970
225. Graham (Eleanor), editor: Welcome Christmas! Legends, Carols, Stories, Riddles, Etc. London: Ernest Benn [1931]. Text illustrations by Priscilla M Ellingford. 8vo, 268pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (spine torn). First edition.
Lilly Library GT4985 .C7
226. Hadfield (John), editor: The Christmas Companion. London: J M Dent & Sons [1939]. Plates. 8vo, xvi 560pp + [8]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition. A eclectic collection of Christmas stories, legends, customs, poems, &c.
Lilly Library GT4985 .H3
227. Haggard (H Rider): A Farmer's Year being his Commonplace Book for 1898. London: Longmans, Green, 1906. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, xxiv 489pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). Third printing. With bibliographical note clipped from newspaper pinned to dedication leaf.
Lilly Library S522 .G7 H1 1906
228. Harrowven (Jean): Origins of Festivals and Feasts. London: Kaye & Ward [1980]. Text illustrations. 8vo, [x] 188pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Two publisher's with compliments slips + slip from British Book News requesting review. Substantial Opie pencil notes on endpaper.
Lilly Library GT3930 .H36 1980
229. Hervey (Mrs T K): The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales that were told there. London: Bell & Daldy, 1863. Small 8vo, vi 233pp + 31[1]pp; gilt-lettered pebbled cloth (soiled). Descriptions of the feasts of Whitsuntide and Christmas, together with related Arthurian tales.
Lilly Library PZ8.1 .P994 H57 1863
230. Hole (Christina): Christmas and Its Customs. A Brief Study. London: Richard Bellca1950s. Illustrations by T Every-Clayton. 8vo, 64pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled).
Lilly Library GT4985 .H57
231. Hone (William): The Every-Day Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times ... London: William Hone, by Hunt and Clarke, 1826-1827. Two volumes bound in four, with engraved frontispieces in two volumes plus hundreds of wood-engraved text illustrations. 8vo, (title and dedication in 1st volume torn and crudely repaired), contemporary leather-backed boards (worn), gilt lettering pieces. First edition. A gallimaufry of fascinating bits of information and lore, produced by the satirist Hone to reverse his poor financial state. It is dedicated to Charles Lamb, who helped generously with contributions.
Lilly Library PR4794 .H57 E93 1826 v.1, pt.1; v.1, pt. 2; v.2 pt.1; v.2, pt.2
232. Hone (William): The Every-Day Book and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times ... London: by assignment, for Thomas Tegg, 1830. Three volumes, each with wood-engraved frontispiece + hundreds of text illustrations. 8vo, early polished calf (worn), gilt lettering pieces. Early reprint combining Hone's Every-Day and Table books.
Lilly Library PR4794 .H57 E93 1830 v.1-3
233. Hone (William): The Table Book of Daily Recreation and Information: concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the plan of the Every-Day Book and Year Book. London: William Tegg, ca1830s. Frontispiece + many wood-engraved illustrations. Large 8vo, [iv] 870pp; 19th century morocco-backed boards, spine gilt (edges rubbed). A continuation of the Every-Day book.
Lilly Library DA110 .H66 1850
234. Hone (William): The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the plan of the Every-Day Book and Table Book. London: William Tegg, ca1830s. Frontispiece + many wood-engraved illustrations. Large 8vo, [iv] 824pp; ; 19th century morocco-backed boards, spine gilt (edges rubbed). A continuation of the Every-Day and Table books.
Lilly Library AY754 .H772 1850
235. Howitt (William): The Year-Book or The Country; or, the Field, the Forest, and the Fireside. London: Henry Colburn, 1850. Large title vignette + engraved headpiece illustrations after designs by Birket Foster. 8vo, viii 445pp + 16 ads; gilt cloth (head of spine repaired). First edition. An elaborate country almanac.
Lilly Library QH81 .H87 1850
236. Hutton (Ronald): The Stations of the Sun. A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press [1966]. Plates + maps. Large 8vo, xx 542pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket.
Lilly Library GT4843 .A2 H87 1996
237. Jones-Baker (Doris): Old Hertfordshire Calendar. [London:] Phillimore [1974]. Plates. 8vo, xvii 325pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library DA670 .H5 J69
238. Lewis (B Wyndham), and Heseltine (G C): A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns. London: J M Dent & Sons, 1928. Color frontispiece + text vignettes by A C Harradine. Small 8vo, xix 320[2]pp lacking fly-leaf; gilt-pictorial cloth. Second printing (same year as the first).
Lilly Library PN6071 .C6 C5 1928
239. Lewis (B Wyndham), and Heseltine (G C): A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns. London: J M Dent & Sons [1936]. Color frontispiece + text vignettes by A C Harradine. Small 8vo, xix 315[1]pp; gilt-pictorial cloth (faded). "Popular edition".
Lilly Library PN6071 .C6 C5 1931
240. Linton (Ralph & Adelin): The Lore of Birthdays. London: Rider [1953]. Illustrations by Bunji Tagawa. 8vo, 128pp; lettered cloth (faded). First edition. Folklore, Astrology, Saints's days, &c.
Lilly Library BF1701 .L5 1953
241. Long (George): The Folklore Calendar. [London:] Philip Allan, 1930. Plates. 8vo, [ix] 240pp + [6]ads; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. "A comprehensive guide to all the picturesque customs & quaint survivals which are such a valued part of our [British] historic heritage".
Lilly Library GR141 .L6
242. Middleton (Geraldine): George and Juliet. London: S. P. C. K. [1961]. Tinted illustrations by Peter Green. Square 8vo, 64pp; pictorial boards, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Stories for children, each one highlighting a different religious holiday.
Lilly Library GT3933 .M62 1961
243. Muir (Frank): Christmas Customs and Traditions. London: Sphere Books Ltd [1975]. Plates. 8vo, 111pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library GT4987.43 .M84 1975
244. Murison (David): The Scottish Year. A calendar of noteworthy anniversaries in the story of Scotland. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1982. Text illustration after wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 8vo, 169pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library DA763 M.87 1982
245. Nelson (Robert): A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England: with Collects and Prayers for each Solemnity. London: S Crowder, E Newbery, et al, 1795.Two copper-engraved frontispiece. 8vo, [vi] xv[iii] 560pp + [16] Index; contemporary calf (worn, cover detached), morocco lettering piece. "Twenty-Seventh Edition".
Lilly Library BV30 .N43 1795
246. Newall (Venetia): An Egg at Easter. A Folklore Study. Foreword by Robert Wildhaber. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1971]. Frontispiece + numerous plates (many in color). 8vo, xxii 423pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With ALS from the author to the Opies.
Lilly Library GR735 .N4 1795
247. Olivier (Edith): Country Moods and Tenses. A Non-Grammarian's Chapbook. London: B T Batsford [1942]. Color frontispiece + plates. 8vo, viii 120pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (edges chipped). 2nd printing.
Lilly Library DA667 .O49 C8 c.2
248. Paton (C I): Manx Calendar Customs. London: William Glaisher Ltd for the Folk-Lore Society [1940]. Four plates. 8vo, xii 147[1]pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition. Folk Lore Society stamp on title. Customs on the Isle of man.
Lilly Library GR142 .M3 P3 1939
249. Soane (George): New Curiosities of Literature and Book of the Months. London: E Churton, 1847. Volume II only (of two). 8vo, [ii] 344pp; contemporary 1/4 leather, spine gilt (extremities quite rubbed). June through December.
Lilly Library GT3930 .S55 1847 v.2
250. St David's Day. [London: printed at the Welsh Outlook Press, Cardiff, for the] Welsh Department, Board of Education, 1915. Double-page title with elaborate decorative borders + plates. 8vo, [31]pp; pictorial wrappers. Attractive propaganda piece designed to stimulate the patriotism of Welsh children.
Lilly Library GT4995 .D25 G7 1915
251. Street (A G): Country Calendar. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. 8vo, xiii[ii] 231pp; lettered cloth. Second edition.
Lilly Library S521 .S9
252. Thonger (Richard): A Calendar of German Customs. London: Oswald Wolff [1966]. Text illustrations. 8vo, 125[1]pp; pictorial cloth, plastic dust jacket. First edition. With slip from the British Book News requesting review.
Lilly Library GT4850 .T5
253. Timbs (John): A Garland for the Year, and Something for Everybody; being a Book for House and Home. London: Crosby, Lockwood, ca1870. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, ix 312pp + 32[1]ads; lettered decorative cloth (rubbed). "New Edition, Revised and Corrected", issued in the series "Things not generally Known".
Lilly Library AG105 .T57 1880
254. Time's Telescope for 1820[-1832]; or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack: containing an explanation of Saint's Days and Holidays; with illustrations of British history and antiquities, notices of obsolete rites and customs ... London: Sherwood, et al, 1820-1832. Together, 13 volumes, all but 1821 & 1822 vols with engraved frontispieces; a few additional engraved plates. 12mo, each with over 300pp (scattered browning or staining, 1823 vol lacking title-leaf); contemporary 1/4 calf over marbled boards, spines gilt with lettering pieces (rubbed). Unbroken run of this rare English almanac series, rich in obscure information.
Lilly Library AY754 .T55 1820-1832
255.(0versize) Trent (Christopher): The B[ritish] P[etrolium] Book of Festivals and Events in Britain. London: Phoenix House [J M Dent & Sons, 1966]. Numerous illustrations (including several in color). 4to, 160pp; printed wrappers (edges rubbed). British festivals divided geographically.
Lilly Library GT4843 .T7
256. Weiser (Francis X): The Holyday Book. London: Staples Press, ca1950s. Vignette illustrations Robert Frankenberg. 8vo, 213pp; lettered cloth. Explanations of the various holy days.
Lilly Library GT3930 .W44 1957
257. Whistler (Laurence): The English Festivals. London: Heinemann, 1947. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, [ix] 241pp; lettered decorative cloth, dust jacket (rubbed, spine faded). First edition.
Lilly Library PR6045 .H154 E58 c.2
258. Whistler (Laurence): The Kissing Bough. A Christmas Custom described by ... London: Heinemann, 1953. Frontispiece with two wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. 8vo, 11pp; pictorial wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
Lilly Library PR6045 .H154 K62 1953
259. Wright (A R): British Calendar Customs. England. Vol[s] I *II * III. Edited by T E Lones. London: William Glaisher, for the Folk-Lore Society, 1936 * 1938 * 1940. Complete in three volumes, each with plates. 8vo, xv 212 -[iii-]xi 272 - [iii-]xi 333[1]pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First editions. The first volume treats "Movable Feasts"; the other two volumes comprise "Fixed Festivals. January-May, Inclusive [vol II] June-December, Inclusive [vol III]". Together with an ALS from A R Wright to "Dr Gaster", 23 June 1913, discussing folklore matters (3pp).
Lilly Library GT4843 .W7 v.1-3

DIALECT, LANGUAGE, AND FOLKLORE

260. Aitken (A J): Completing the Record of Scots. Reprinted from Scottish Studies, Vol 8, Part 2, 1964. 8vo, pp129-[140], self-wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to P. Opie "With best wishes to you (& for the Dict. Of Folk-Lore)". Discussion of Scottish dictionaries and dialect studies.
261. Baker (Anne Elizabeth): Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, with Examples of Their Colloquial Use ... to which are added, The Customs of the County. London: John Russell Smith; Northampton: Abel & Sons, and Mark Dorman, 1854. Complete in two volumes. 8vo, xvii[i] 410[1] -[i] 439[1]pp (1st vol lacking fly-leaves, scattered minor worming); original gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, soiled, faded). First edition. With Peter Opie's manuscript note on front paste-down: "John Clare, whose verse is frequently quoted, assisted in the preparation of this book from his asylum ... P. O, Oct 1961".
262. Brockett (John Trotter): A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use; with their Etymology, and Affinity to other Languages; and occasional notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions. Newcastle upon Tyne: Emerson Charnley, 1829. 8vo, Engraved arms on dedication leaf. 8vo, xii 343[1]pp; 1/2 leather (edges rubbed), spine gilt with lettering piece.
263. Brophy (John), and Partridge (Eric): The Long Trail. Soldiers' Songs and Slang 1914-18. London: Sphere Books [1969]. 12mo, 189[3]pp; color pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Part Two details soldiers' slang (pp63-168).
264. [Carr (William)]: Horae Momenta Cravenae, or The Craven Dialect, Exemplified in Two Dialects, between Farmer Giles and his Neighbour Bridget. To which is annexed a copious glossary. London: Hurst, Robinson' Leeds: Robinson & Hernaman, 1824. 8vo, v, [7-]125pp; original plain boards (spine lacking, rubbed). .Housed in plain wrapper captioned by the Opies. First edition. Rare, especially in this condition.
265. Chamberlain (Mrs): A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words. With glossic notes by Thomas Hallam. London: English Dialect Society, by Trübner, 1882. 8vo, xxviii 40pp; printed wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. First edition.
266. Clare (J B), Rev: Wenhaston and Bulcamp, Suffolk. Curious Parish Records ... and A Glossary of Old-Fashioned Words. [Halesworth: William P Gale, 1903]. Folding plate + text illustrations. 8vo, 119pp; printed wrappers. The glossary appears on pp[63-]118.
267. Cooper (William Durrant): A Glossary of the Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. Brighton: printed, for private distribution, by W Fleet, 1836. 8vo, 34pp (stained); original cloth (soiled). First edition, presentation copy inscribed "from the Author". Rare.
268. Cope (William H):, Rev. Sir: A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases. London: published for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner, 1883. 8vo, xiv[i] 104pp; printed wrappers (chipped, soiled). First edition. Housed in booksellers's mailing envelope address to the Opies (further captioned by them).
269. Eckenstein (L): A Spell of Words. Studies in Language Bearing on Custom. London: The Favil Press, 1932. Four tipped-in illustrations. 8vo, xix 289[2]pp; two-toned cloth, spine gilt-lettered, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Fascinating study.
270. (Lilly PE2032 .E52 1888) Elworthy (Frederic Thomas): The West Somerset Word-Book. A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon. London: for the English Dialect Society, Trübner, 1888. 4to, xlviii 876pp untrimmed (hinges cracked); gilt-lettered cloth. First edition, one of 75 large-paper copies (#52) initialed by the author; presentation copy inscribed by the author to W P Graves (the father of the poet Robert Graves), Oct, 1891. A mammoth work.
271. Evans (Arthur B): Leicestershire Words, Phrases and Proverbs. London: William Pickering, 1848. 12mo, [I]ads, xvii 116pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. First edition.
272. Forby (Robert): The Vocabulary of East Anglia ... as it existed in the last twenty years of the Eighteenth Century. London: J B Nichols & Sons, 1830. Two volumes bound as one, with portrait frontispiece (foxed). 8vo, xlvii 156 - 435pp; 1/2 calf, spine gilt-lettered (rubbed). First edition. Appendix deals with popular superstitions, popular sayings and old customs. Slip with Opie's bibliographical note laid in.
273. Harman (H): Buckinghamshire Dialect. With a new Preface by Stewart F Sanderson. [Ardsley:] S R Publishers Ltd, 1970. 8vo, xii 168pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Originally published in 1929.
Lilly Library PE1821 .H3 1970
274. The Journal of the Lancashire Dialect Society, No[s] 19, 22, 23, 25-27. Manchester: for the Society by Morris & Yeaman, January 1970 - January 1978. Six volumes. 8vo, chiefly 32pp; printed wrappers. Six issues of this scholarly journal; the fifth & sixth with presentation inscriptions from "Jabberwock" (who contributed a poem to each issue); also with one ALS and one APCS to the Opies from this same individual (who happens to be A Oswald Baxter). Blank subscription form laid in.
275. Laneham (Robert): Robert Laneham's Letter : Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabath at the Castle of Kenilworth in 1575 : Edited with introduction by F. J. Furnivall. London: Chatto and Windus Duffield and Company: New York: Publishers MCMVII. Frontispiece, 8vo, clxxxii, 87 pp.; gilt-lettered cloth. A valuable work for establishing the history of English pronunciation, as it was printed in a semi-phonetic system.
276. Leigh (Egerton): A Glossary of Words used in the Dialect of Cheshire. Founded on a similar attempt by Roger Wilbraham. London: Hamilton, Adams; Chester: Minshull & Hughes, 1877. Portrait frontispiece + plates. 8vo, xix[i] 236pp; original cloth gilt (spine split). First edition.
277. Lowsley (B), Major: A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases. London: published for the English Dialect Society, by Trübner, 1888. 8vo, [xi] 199[1]pp + blank interleaving; contemporary 1/2 leather, gilt spine with lettering piece. First edition.
278. MacTaggart (John): The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, or, The Original, Antiquated, and Natural Curiosities of the South of Scotland; containing Sketches of Eccentric Characters and Curious Places, with Explanations of Singular Words, Terms, and Phrases. London: printed for the Author, 1824. 8vo, xii 504pp untrimmed; early cloth (faded and soiled), gilt lettering piece (chipped). First edition. Lists of Scottish words alphabetically arranged with definitions, interspersed with poems, tales, anecdotes, &c, "illustrative of the ways of the peasantry". Rare.
279. Moor (Edward): Suffolk Words and Phrases; or, An Attempt to collect the Lingual Localisms of that County. Woodbridge: printed by J Loder, for R Hunter, 1823. 8vo, xix 525pp + [1]ads, untrimmed; early cloth (faded, spine chipped), paper spine label. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "Mrs T Lynn with compliments from the Author" (additional note indicating Mrs Lynn was a friend of the poet Edward Fitzgerald). Two Opie slips laid in (one with bibliographic notes, the other indicating this work had been culled).
280. Morris (Desmond), Collett (Peter), Marsh (Peter), and O'Shaughnessy (Marie): Gestures. Their Origins and Distribution. London: Cape [1979]. Illustrations. Large 8vo, xxii[ii] 296pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Fascinating study of manual communication in Europe.
Lilly Library BR591 .M875 1979
281. Morris (M C F), Rev: Yorkshire Folk-Talk with Characteristics of those who speak it in the North and East Ridings. London: Henry Frowde, 1892. 8vo, xii 408pp; lettered cloth. First edition.
282. Murison (David): The Scots Tongue -the Folk-Speech. [Offprint from Folklore, Volume 75, Spring 1964].8vo, pp37-47; printed wrappers. With ALS from the author to Peter Opie on Scottish National Dictionary stationery (of which Murison was the editor).
283. Murison (David D): Shetland Speech Today. [off-print from the] Frooskaparrit (Annal. Societ. Scient. Faeroensis), 13. Bok. Torshavn, 1964. 8vo, pp[122-]129; printed wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
284. Murison (David): "Scottish Variants of the English language" [pp124-128 in] Books. The Journal of the National Book League. London, July-August 1965. 8vo, pp[113-]152; printed wrappers. Issue devoted to Scottish themes.
285. O Conchubhair (Paadraig): "An Offaly Glossary" [off-print from and unidentified periodical]. Np, ?Spring 1953 [pencil note]. 8vo, [187-]191 misbound; plain wrappers. Irish dialect glossary.
286. Parish (W D), Rev: A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. Lewes: Farncombe & Co, 1875. 8vo, [ii] ii [ii] 148pp + [6]ads; later cloth. First edition.
287. Parish (W D), Rev: A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. Lewes: Farncombe & Co, 1875. 8vo, [ii] ii [ii] 148pp + [6]ads + 20 2nd Report of the English Dialect Society; original cloth gilt (spine ends rubbed). Second edition.
288. Peacock (Robert Backhouse): A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, in the County of Lancaster; together with an Essay on some leading characteristics of the dialects spoken in the six Northern Counties of England. Edited by J C Atkinson. London: Asher & Co, for the Philological Society, 1869. 8vo, viii 95 - 32pp (a bit sprung); gilt-lettered cloth (spine chipped). First edition.
289. Pitts (John Linwood): The Patois Poems of the Channel Islands. The Norman-French Text. Edited with Parallel English Translation, Historical Introduction, and Notes. Guernsey: Guille-Allès Library, and Mackenzie & Le Patourel, 1883. One full-page engraved illustration. 8vo, viii 61[1]pp + [26] ads for various Guernsey products; printed wrappers (chipped). First edition. Rare imprint.
290. [Robinson (C Clough): The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, illustrated by Conversations and Tales of Common Life, Etc. To which are added a copious glossary; notices of the various antiquities, manners, and customs, and general folk-lore of the district. London: John Russell Smith, 1862. 12mo, [iii] xxxiii 454pp + 12 ads; gilt-lettered cloth (spine darkened, head chipped). Originally published the previous year.
291. Rye (Walter): A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia. Founded on that of Forby. With numerous corrections and additions. London: published for the English Dialect Society, by Henry Frowde, 1895. 8vo, xii 252pp; printed wrappers (edges rubbed). First edition. Very rare in this condition.
292. Scollins (Richard), and Titford (John): Ey Up, Mi Duck! Part two. An affectionate look at the speech, history and folklore of Ilkeston and the Erewash Valley. Ilkeston: Scollins & Titford [1977]. 8vo, Illustrations by Richard Scollins. 8vo, 64pp; pictorial wrappers. Second printing. With TLS from Scollins to the Opies, 19 August 1978, sending this book and noting children's material within (Peter Opie has added a manuscript blurb to the bottom of the letter). Also with two order forms laid in.
293. (Oversize) The Scottish National Dictionary. Designed partly on regional lines and partly on historical principles, and containing all the Scottish words known to be in use or to have been in use since c.1700. Volume 1 [of ten]. Edited by William Grant. Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association [?1931]. Folio, [iii] liv 142pp + [4] subscribers; gilt-lettered cloth (spine rubbed). First edition, limited to 2000 copies for subscribers (this copy unnumbered). With 1934 prospectus leaflet + sheet of printed review blurbs laid in.
294. Shaw (Frank): Lern Yerself Scouse. How to Talk Proper Liverpool. [Edited with Notes & Translations by Fritz Spiegl and a Scouse Pome by Stan Kelly]. Liverpool: Scouse Press [1966]. Oblong 16mo, [3-]80pp; printed wrappers (with original mailing envelope). Second printing: presentation copy inscribed by the author to Peter Opie from a "Fella-Scolar". With folded advertising broadside laid in. Also with TLS from Shaw to Mr & Mrs Opie, 14 January 1969 (with original mailing envelope). Housed together in plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
295. Sternberg (Thomas): The Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire. London: John Russell Smith; Northampton: Abel & Sons, G N Wetton; Oundle: R Todd; Brackley: A Green, 1851. 12mo, xvi 200p + errata slip; original cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition. With Opie pencil note on engraved bookplate: "The first book to have the word "folk-lore" in its title". Part II (pp[129-]197) deals with folklore, including chapters on fairy-folk and witchcraft. Rare and important work.
296. Word-Lore. The 'Folk' Magazine. Volume I[-III]. London: Folk Press Ltd, 1926-1928. Three volumes. 8vo, xix[i] 278 - viii 226 - vi 162pp + [8] ad supplement for the "English Dialect Society" laid in; original gilt-lettered cloth. The first three years of this important bi-monthly journal, devoted to the folklore of language.

FOLK DANCE AND THEATRE

297. Brooks (J Barlow): Lancashire Bred. An Autobiography. [Oxford: printed by the Charurch Army Press, 1951]. 8vo, viii 229pp; gilt-lettered cloth (dulled). First edition. Includes a description of the presentation of a mummer's play, with text.
298. Buckman (Peter): Let's Dance. Social, Ballroom & Folk Dancing. London: Paddington Press [1978]. Many illustrations. 4to, 288pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. Popular history.
Lilly Library GV169 .B83
299. Cawte (E C), Helm (Alex), and Peacock (N): English Ritual Drama. A Geographical Index. London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1967. 8vo, 132pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition. With page of manuscript notes by the Opies, perhaps for a review.
300. Dascotte (Robert): La baraque Saint-Antoine. Un théâtre de marionettes ambulant * Pinon (Roger): Quelques notes sur "La Temptation de saint Antoine". [off-prints from] Enquêtes du Musée de la Vie Wallonne, Vol XVI, Nos 181-184. Np, ca1970. Illustrations. 8vo, pp10-105; printed wrappers. Two articles on marionette plays as preformed in Belgium.
301. (Oversize) English Dance & Song. Volume 41, number[s] 2 * 3, 1979. [London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1979]. Two issues of this periodical, both with illustrations. 4to, 28 - 28pp; pictorial wrappers.
302. Franks (A H): Social Dance. A Short History. London: Routledge &Kegan Paul [1963]. Plates. Large 8vo, xii 233pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Opie pencil page citations on fly-leaf.
303. Harbage (Alfred): Annals of English Drama 975-1700. An Analytical Record of all Plays, Extant or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies, &c. Revised by S Schoenbaum. London: Methuen & Co. [1964]. 4to, xvii 321[2]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (faded). First revised edition, originally published in 1940.
304. Helm (Alex): Cheshire Folk Drama. Ibstock: The Guizer Press [1968]. Title vignette + map. 8vo, 58[2]pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Study of the geographical distribution of Souling plays (a type of mummers' play).
305. Hone (William): Ancient Mysteries Described, especially the English Miracle Plays. London: William Hone, 1823. Frontispiece, plates + text illustrations. 8vo, [i] 299pp bookplate; printed cloth (soiled), with latter protective wrapper. First edition. Reprints numerous obscure texts. Issued in one of the earliest dated trade cloth bindings.
306. Kennedy (Douglas): England's Dances. Folk-Dancing To-Day and Yesterday. London: G Bell & Sons, 1949. Plates. 8vo, 158pp; lettered cloth (marked). First edition. With a preface by the composer Vaughan Williams.
307. Macqueen-Pope (W): Nights of Gladness. London: Hutchinson [1956]. Plates. 8vo, 268pp (hinge cracked & crudely repaired with tape); lettered cloth (joints fraying, spotted, lending library sticker on front cover). First edition. Popular history of the musical comedy.
308. Miomandre (Francis de): Danse. [Paris:] Flammarion, ca1935. Profusely illustrated. Small 4to, 64pp; pictorial wrappers. Popular history
309. Nicoll (Allardyce): A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Volume IV [only]. Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge: University Press, 1955. 8vo, x 668pp; two-toned cloth, spine gilt-lettered, dust jacket. Second edition (first published in 1930). The standard history of English drama, with chapters on melodramas, farces, burlettas, &c., as well as details on the provincial theaters.
310. Pinon (Roger): "De gebroken brug. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het beroemdste stuk van het Europese Schimmentheater" [published in:] Neerlands Volksleven, Jaargang 27 - Nummers 3 en 4 [De Haag, 1976]. Illustrations. 8vo, 128pp; pictorial wrappers. Study of European shadow theaters. With Opie note on endpaper "Sent to us by Prof. Pinon 9/78".
311. Planché (J R): The Extravaganzas of ... Edited by T F Dillon Croker and Stephen Tucker. London: Samuel French, 1879. Four volumes (of 5), each with engraved frontispiece and two (or in one case three) plates. 8vo, (preliminaries foxed); gilt-lettered cloth (extremities rubbed, a bit dusty, one joint starting to split). "Testimonial Edition". Fascinating record of these popular London theatrical productions, often based on fairy tales and mythological subjects.
312. Quirey (Belinda):, with Bradshaw (Steve) and Smedley (Ronald): May I have the Pleasure. The Story of Popular Dancing. Edited by Libby Halliday. London: British Broadcasting Corporation [1976]. Illustrated. 4to, 124pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition. Based on a BBC program.
Lilly Library GV1601 .Q57
313. Ripon (Hugh): Discovering English Folk Dance. [Aylesbury:] Shire Publications [1975]. Illustrations. 12mo, 64pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library GV1646 .E6 R55
314. Sachs (Curt); World History of the Dance. Translated [from the German] by Bessie Schönberg. New York: W W Norton & Company, ca1950s. Double-sided plates. 4to, [x] 469[1]pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (rubbed). This comprehensive study was first published in English in 1937. With 10pp + 4 note-cards with extensive holograph notes and citations by Iona Opie.
315. Thompson (C J S): Dancing. London: Collins, ca1940. Eleven color plates + text illustrations. Small 4to, 24pp; printed stiff wrappers, color pictorial dust jacket (spotted). Popular history, with illustrations after paintings & prints.
316. Tiddy (R J E): The Mummers' Play ... With A Memoir. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923. Frontispiece + two plates. 8vo, [i]257[1]pp untrimmed; cloth (lightly rubbed, one edge bumped) with printed spine label (browned, chipped). First edition. Excellent historical study of these Christmas folk plays. Pencil note by Peter Opie on endpaper indicating this was the poet Cecil Day-Lewis's copy: it is signed in ink on flyleaf "Cecil, Christmas 1932". Also with Cheltenham College concert program, December 1932, laid in (it features a mummers' play).
317. Vallance (Rosalind), editor: Plays for Christmas. London: Oxford University Press [1940]. Illustrations by L Domény. Small 8vo, 63pp; decorative boards (rubbed). First edition. Chameleon Books #16. Six Christmas plays including one traditional mummers' play.
Lilly Library call number: PN6120 .C5 V23
318. [Westlake (N H J)]: The Dance. Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. by an Antiquary. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1911. Text illustrations. Tall 8vo, viii 68pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). First edition.
Lilly Library GV1601 .W5 1911

FOLK TALES AND FAIRY TALES

319. Addy (Sidney Oldall): Household Tales with other Traditional Remains collected in the Counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham. London: David Nutt; Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1895. 8vo, xxxvi 163pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. With holograph note by Peter Opie citing various references to the author.
320. Aislinge Meic Conglinne. The Vision of MacConglinne. A Middle-Irish Wonder Tale. Edited with a translation ... notes, and a glossary by Kuno Meyer. With an Introduction by Wilhelm Wollner. London: David Nutt, 1892. 8vo, liii 212pp; gilt decorative cloth. First edition. Gaelic text and English translation on facing pages. "Folklore Society London" ink stamp on title.
321. Arabian Nights. The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. London: Little Blue Book Company, ca1910. 12mo, 63pp; decorative wrappers. No 82 in the "Little Blue Book Library".
322. (Arabian Nights). Aladdin and the Lamp. London: New Education Fellowship, 1924. Illustrations by A Pazelt. 12mo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers. No 19 in the "World Library for Children (English Edition)".
323. (Arabian Nights). The Story of Sinbad the Sailor. London: New Education Fellowship, 1924. Illustrations by Alfred Kunz. 12mo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers. No 27 in the "World Library for Children (English Edition)".
324. Barrett (W H): Tales from the Fens. Edited by Enid Porter. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1963]. 8vo, xx 203pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Versions of tales heard by the author in his youth.
Lilly Library GR142 .F4 B29
325. Barrett (W H), and Garrod (R P): East Anglian Folklore and Other Tales. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1976]. Illustrations by R P Garrod. 8vo, xv 143pp; lettered dust jacket. First edition. With slip laid in from the British Book News requesting a review.
326. Bettelheim (Bruno): The Uses of Enchantment. The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Knopf, 1976. Large 8vo, [viii] 328pp + xi[ii] index; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. An important and controversial study of the psychological impact of fairy tales on children. With a cassette recording of a lecture by Bettelheim, "The Meaning of Fairy Tales" (5/5/76), housed in protective envelope labeled by Peter Opie..
327. Bettridge (William Edwin), and Utley (Francis Lee): "New Light on the Origin of the Griselda Story" [extracted from] Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Summer 1971). 8vo, pp153-208, rebacked. Serious analyses of this folktale made famous by Boccaccio and Perrault. Source of article identified by the Opies, who have also supplied protective envelope (which they have captioned).
328. Bialik (Hayyim Nahman): And it Came to Pass. Legends and Stories about King David and King Solomon. Translated [from Hebrew] by Herbert Danby. New York: Hebrew Publishing Company [1938]. Illustrations after woodcuts by Howard Simon. 8vo, 281pp; lettered cloth. The poet Bialik issued these tales separately in Hebrew between 1927 and 1934; they were first published as a collection in 1934.
Lilly Library PZ3 .B46982
329. Briggs (Katharine M): A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language incorporating the F J Norton Collection. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970-1971. Complete in four volumes. Large 8vo, [v]580 -[v]580 - lxvi 623 - [v]774pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jackets (edges a bit worn). First edition. A massive scholarly compilation, divided into two parts each with two volumes: Part A: "Folk Narratives"; Part B: "Folk Legends". With an ALS from the author to Peter Opie, May 12, 1970, chiefly responding to his reactions to Part A. Also with Peter Opie's brief autograph notes (perhaps towards a review) on one small card. Publisher's review slip laid into second volume of Part A.
Lilly Library GR141 .B68 Pt.A-Pt.B
330. Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies. Translated and edited by Moss Roberts with the assistance of C N Tay. New York: Pantheon Books [1979]. Text illustrations. Large 8vo, xx 258[2]pp; gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library PL2658 .E8 C48
331. Clouston (W A): The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and their Follies. London: Elliot Stock, 1888. Small 8vo, xx 228pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (extremities rubbed, a bit soiled). First edition. Folk tales about simpletons taken from ancient Greece, medieval Europe and India.
Lilly Library GR950 .F6 C6
332. Crossley-Holland (Kevin): British Folk Tales. New Versions. London: Orchard Books [1987]. Pictorial chapter headings by Peter Melnyczuk. 8vo, 383pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. Fifty-five tales retold from the original sources. Together with publisher's page proofs of this work (large 8vo, [2-]393ff printed on one side only, unbound), together with a TLS from the publisher sending these proofs and fishing for a blurb. Housed in plain envelope, captioned by Mrs Opie.
333. Cunningham (Allan): Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry. With an Introduction by Henry Morley. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. 8vo, 288pp + endpaper ads, untrimmed; cloth with printed spine label (chipped. First edition. An important collection. Rare.
334. Dégh (Linda): Folktales and Society. Story-telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community. Translated by Emily M Schossberger. Bloomington: Indiana University Press [1969]. Illustrated. 8vo, xi[vii] 430pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition, with publisher's compliments slip laid in.
335. Emerson (P H): Tales from Welsh Wales, founded on Fact and Current Tradition. London: D Nutt, 1894. 8vo, [viii] 304pp + [2]ads untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition. Thirty-seven traditional Welsh tales.
336. Fables, Original and Selected; by the most esteemed European and Oriental Authors: with an Introductory Dissertation on the History of fable, comprising Biographical Notices of the most eminent Fabulists. By G Moir Bussy. London: Willoughby & Co., 1842. Frontispiece, numerous plates, text illustrations and vignettes by J J Grandville. 8vo, xxxiv 353pp (hinges cracked); original gilt-pictorial and -lettered cloth (remnant of old paper label on cover). Early printing of this fine collection of fables (original published in French in 1838 and in English in 1839), handsomely illustrated by Grandville.
337. A Fair Stream of Silver. Love Tales from Celtic Lore Collected and Retold by Ann Moray. [London:] Longmans [1966]. 8vo, xv 206pp; lettered cloth; dust jacket. First British edition (originally published the previous year in Ireland?), with publisher's compliments slip and British Book News review request laid in. Also with card bearing Opie's autograph notes.
338. Fairy Tales Legends and Romances illustrating Shakespeare and other early English Writers to which are prefixed two preliminary dissertations 1. On Pigmies 2. On Fairies by Joseph Ritson. London: Frank & William Kerslake, 1875. 12mo, iv 426pp; contemporary 3/4 morocco, spine gilt (extremities rubbed. First edition thus, an amalgam of Ritson's Fairy Tales (1831) and Halliwell's Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of a Midsummer-Night's Dream (1845) edited by W C Hazlitt with additions and corrections.
339. Folk-Lore and Legends Oriental. London: W W Gibbings, 1889. Small 8vo, viii 192pp; cloth-backed decorative boards, spine gilt-lettered (rubbed). Bookplate of author Arthur Quiller-Couch. First edition. Collection of eastern folk tales.
340. Folk-Lore of Modern Greece: The Tales of the People. Edited by the Rev E M Geldart. London: W Swan Sonnenschein, 1884. Small 8vo, 190pp (scattered foxing, title browned; decorative cloth, gilt cover label (extremities quite rubbed, early manuscript spine label). First edition. Greek fairy tales collected in the 19th century.
341. The Folkstories of Children [edited by] Brian Sutton-Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. 8vo, xiv 311[2]pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Mrs Opie has written this note facing the title: "the tales are very different from the tales we collect; and the worrying thought strikes me that the pieces are as likely to be influenced by the identity or nature of the recorder as by the teller ..". Sutton-Smith and six colleagues here record children's tales. Published as Vol 3 in the Publications of the American Folklore Society, New Series.
342. Folk Tales and Fables. Collected by Phebean Itayemi and P Gurrey. London: Penguin Books [1953]. 12mo,122[1] + [5]ads; wrappers (spine worn and crudely repaired with tape). Housed in protective envelope labeled by the Opies. Collection of West African folk stories. Ms Itayemi was born in Nigeria.
343. Folktales of England. Edited by Katharine M Briggs and Ruth L Tongue. [London:] Routledge & Kegan Paul [1965]. 8vo, xxxiv 174pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Issued as part of the series "Folktales of the World".
344. Folktales of France. Edited by Geneviève Massignon. Translated by Jacqueline Hyland. Foreword by Richard M Dorson. [London:] Routledge & Kegan Paul [1968]. 8vo, xlviii 315pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Issued as part of the series "Folktales of the World" (Dorson was the general editor of the series).
345. Forgotten Folk-Tales of the English Counties. Collected by Ruth L Tongue. With an Introduction by Katharine Briggs. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1970]. 8vo, xvii 212pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
346. Grice (F): Folk Tales of the North Country drawn from Northumberland and Durham. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons [1944]. Map frontispiece + text illustrations. 12mo, vii 150pp; gilt-lettered cloth (lightly stained), pictorial dust jacket (rubbed). First edition.
347. Grimm (Jacob & Wilhelm): Rumpelstiltskin and other Grimm Tales [retold by] Carol Ann Duffy. [London:] Faber & Faber [1999]. Text illustrations by Marketa Prachaticka. 8vo, [v] 190pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition thus.
348. Hartland (Edwin Sidney): The Science of Fairy Tales. An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology. With an Introduction by A A Milne. London: Methuen [1925]. 8vo, xii 372pp + 8 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. Second edition (original published 1890), first with Milne Introduction.
349. Hindu Tales. Translated by P W Jacob. Edited and revised with an Introduction by C A Rylands. London: Stanley Paul, 1928. Frontispiece. 12mo, 188[1]pp; gilt decorative cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. Part of the series "The International Library".
350. Jacobs (Joseph): Welsh Tales. Edited by Muriel M Morrow. London: New Education Fellowship, 1925. Illustrations by Vera Cocker. 12mo, 31pp; pictorial wrappers. No 34 in the "World Library for Children (English Edition)".
351. Jacobs (Joseph): Irish Tales. Edited by Muriel M Morrow. London: New Education Fellowship, 1925. Illustrations by Vera Cocker. 12mo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers. No 35 in the "World Library for Children (English Edition)".
352. Jacobs (Joseph): The Fables of Aesop. Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced. [London: Godfrey Cave, 1979]. Illustrations by Richard Heighway. Small 8vo, xxiv[ii] 222pp; gilt-lettered boards, decorative dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of this interesting 1894 edition of Aesop's fables.
353. Jaffrey (Madhur): Seasons of Splendour. Tales, Myths & Legends of India. [London:] Pavilion [1985]. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. 4to,127[1]pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. Second printing (same year as the first).
354. La Fontaine (Jean de): The Fables. Translated into English Verse by Edward Marsh. London: William Heinemann, 1933. Twelve plates after engravings by Stephen Gooden. 8vo, lxxi 469pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition thus. English versions of these sophisticated verses, based on the traditional fables of Aesop and others.
355. Lang (Mrs): The Book of Saints and Heroes. Edited by Andrew Lang. London: Longmans, Green, 1912. Twelve color plates and numerous text illustrations by H J Ford. 8vo, xii 351[1]pp; gilt-pictorial cloth. First edition. Saint's lives told for children.
356. Le Grand [D'Aussy, P J B]: Fabliaux or Tales, abridged from French manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries, selected and translated into English verse. With preface and notes. London: printed by W Bulmer, sold by R Faulder, 1796-1800. With 22 fine wood-engraved headpiece illustrations + 30 other vignettes, begun by John Bewick and completed after his death by Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit and Luke Clennell. 4to, [iv] xvii[ii] 280 - [iii] 336pp (1st title-page soiled otherwise very clean, new endpapers); original tree calf, rebacked in full leather (spine faded, rubbed). First edition. Important collection of medieval folk tales including such famous pieces as "Aucassin & Nicolette" and "Griselidis".
357. Liammoir (Michael mac): Faery Nights. Oicheanta Si. Stories on Ancient Irish Festivals. [Dublin:] The O'Brien Press [1984]. Illustrations by the author. 8vo, 128pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. Folk tales in Celtic and English versions, originally published 1922.
358. Mohanti (Prafulla): Indian Village Tales. London: Davis-Pynter [1975]. Text illustrations by the author. 8vo, 123[3]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The author heard these tales growing up in the village of Nanpur.
359. Njururi (Ngumbu): Agikuyu Folk Tales. London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo, vii[ii] 109pp; pictorial boards, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A collection of folktales from Kenya.
360. O'Brien (Edna): Tales for the Telling. Irish Folk & Fairy Stories. [London:] Pavilion [1986]. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. 4to,127[1]pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
361. Own (Elias), Rev: Welsh Folk-Lore: A Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales. Oswestry & Wrexham: Woodall, Minshall [1896]. 8vo, xii 359pp; cloth-backed boards with printed spine label (covers discolored). First edition thus, comprising the prize essay of the National Eisteddfod, 1887, revised and enlarged by the author.
362. The Penguin Book of English Folktales. Edited by Neil Philip. [London:] Penguin Books [1992]. 8vo, xxxix 428pp + [12]ads; color pictorial wrappers. First edition.
363. The Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile. Translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce. Now Edited with a Preface, Notes and appendixes by N M Penzer. London: John Lane the Bodley head Ltd, 1932. Two volumes, each with plates. 4to, lxxv 309 - vi[I] 333pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (first volume a bit spotted), printed dust jackets (extremities chipped, spine darkened). First edition thus: a superb scholarly edition of this great early collection of Italian folk tales, originally published 1634/1636 in the Neapolitan dialect and here translated by the important literary critic Benedetto Croce. With holograph note in first volume by Peter Opie citing a long review by Gaster in Folk-Lore, together with an off-print of that review laid in (Folk-Lore, Vol XLII, December 31, 1931, pp495-500).
364. Philip (Neil): The Cinderella Story. [London:] Penguin Books [1989]. Illustrated. 8vo, [x] 177[3]pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition, as issued in the "Penguin Folklore Library". An interesting study of this popular fairy tale, printing numerous variations from around the world.
365. Stapleton (Alfred): All about the Merry Tales of Gotham. Nottingham: R N Pearson, 1900. Plates + full-page designs by Harry Packer. 8vo, [vii] 190pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. A study of these early folk tales.
366. Straparola: The Most Delectable Nights of ... Paris: Charles Carrington, 1906. Two volumes, both with text illustrations. 8vo, xvi 352 - xl 420pp + [4]ads; original printed wrappers. First edition thus, purporting to be the first complete translation of these tales into English, limited to 1000 copies (#s 457 & 581). Originally published in two parts, 1550-1553, it was the earliest European text to include fairy tales (i.e., versions of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Puss in Boots").
367. Strickland (W W): Panslavonic Folk-Lore in Four Books. New York: B Westermann, 1930. Large 8vo, xii 469pp + [3]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition thus. Fairy tales and folk stories translated from Karel Erben's "A Hundred Genuine Popular Slavonic Fairy Stories in the original Dialects".
368. Tales from Times Past. Edited by Bryan Holme. London: Heinemann [1977]. Color illustrations by Doyle, EVB, Doré, Dulac, Rackham, &c. 4to, 175[1]pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A collection of classic fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes, with illustrations by noted artists.
369. Thompson (Stith): The Folktale. New York: Dryden Press, 1951. 8vo, x 510pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (chipped, repaired). Second printing (originally published 1946). Important study by "the world's foremost the authority" (dust jacket blurb) on the folktale.
370. Tongue (R L): The Twisty Stick. Off-print from Folklore, Vol 82, Autumn 1971. 8vo, pp245-246; printed wrappers (creased). Somerset folk tale told by a farmer's wife in her seventies and taken down verbatim.
371. The Tota Kahani; or, Tales of a Parrot, translated from Saiyid Haidar Bakhsh's Hindustani Version of Muhammad Kadiri's Persian Abridgement of Nakhshabi's Tuti Nama, by George Small. London: Wm H Allen, 1875. 8vo, xv 240pp + 8 ads; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded, joints starting). First edition thus. Traditional folk tales originally composed in Sanskrit and now very popular in India.
372. Warner (Marina): The absent mother, or women against women in the 'old wives' tale'. Hilversum,1991. Illustrated. 8vo, 58pp; pictorial wrappers. A lecture delivered at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Presentation copy from the author to Iona Opie "In recognition of her inspiration". Incorporated into the author's classic From the Beast to the Blonde (see below).
373. Warner (Marina): From the Beast to the Blonde. On Fairy Tales and their Tellers. London: Chatto & Windus [1994]. Illustrated. 8vo, xxi 458pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition, presentation copy from the author to Iona Opie "Without you, this work would not exist ...". Also with autograph postcard signed from the author to Iona Opie "You are the spirit that animated my entire enterprise ...". An insightful and award-winning feminist study.
374. Williamson (Duncan): The Broonie Solkies & Fairies. Travelers' Tales. [Edinburgh:] Canongate, 1985. Illustrations by Alan Herriot. 8vo, 157pp + [1]ad; color pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's second collection of Scottish Gypsy folk tales.
375. Williamson (Duncan): Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children. [Edinburgh:] Canongate [1986]. Illustrations by Alan Herriot. 8vo, 159[1]pp; color pictorial wrappers. Scottish Gypsy folk tales, originally published in 1983.
376. Williamson (Duncan & Linda): The Genie and the Fisherman and other Tales from the Travelling People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [1991]. 8vo, 80pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition. More Scottish Gypsy folktales.
377. Yearsley (Macleod): The Folklore of Fairy Tale. London: Watts & Co, 1924. 8vo, xiii 240pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition.
378. Yule-Tide Stories. A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions. From the Swedish, Danish, and German. Edited by Benjamin Thorpe. London: Henry G Bohn, 1853. 8vo, xiv[i]504pp + advert endpapers (hinges cracked); original decorative blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (rubbed, lightly soiled, chipped library label on lower spine). First edition. Scholarly collection of folktales, emphasizing the relations between the tales from these northern European countries. This work was reprinted in 1968.
379. Zipes (Jack): Breaking the Spell. Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. London: Heinemann [1979]. 8vo, xix[iii] 201pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition, with review slip from the publisher addressed to the Opies. The author's first book in a vein which he has worked prodigiously.

BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS

380. Abbott (John): The Story of Francis, Day & Hunter. London: Francis, Day & Hunter [1952]. Plates. 8vo, 83[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spotted). First edition. History of this important music sheet publisher.
381. Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings. With Lives, Portraits, and Autographs of the Writers, and Notes on the Songs. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Thomas & George Allan, 1891. Frontispiece + scattered text illustrations. 8vo, xvi 578pp; leather-backed gilt-pictorial boards (spine badly worn). "Revised edition". Collection of local songs, originally published in the 1860s.
382. Allingham (William), editor: The Ballad Book. A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. London: Macmillan, 1864. Large title vignette. 12mo, xlvii 393[1]pp + [2]ads (front hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, a bit shaken).
383. Ashton (John): Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Numerous facsimile illustrations. 8vo, viii 454[1]pp; gilt-lettered and -pictorial cloth. First edition. Includes many ballads, doggerel, drinking songs, &c.
384. Ashton (John): Modern Street Ballads. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Facsimile illustrations. 8vo, xvi 405pp + [1]ads; gilt-lettered and -pictorial cloth. First edition. Another handsome production by Ashton.
385. Ault (Norman): Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts. Chosen, Edited and Arranged by ... London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1925. 8vo, xv535[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition. Sheet of holograph Opie citations laid in.
386. Ault (Norman), editor: A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938. 8vo, 672pp (title-page creased, inner hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Holograph list of citations by Peter Opie laid in.
387. The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland, Romantic and Historical. With Notes and Introduction on the Ballad Poetry of Scotland. London: Bell & Daldy, 1871. 8vo, [i] xxviii 656pp; leather-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered (spine quite rubbed).
388. Ballads, Songs and Rhymes of East Anglia. Arranged with Notes by A S Harvey. Foreword by D H S Cranage. Norwich: Jarrold & Sons [1936]. 8vo, xv 249[1]pp; lettered cloth (faded). First edition.
389. Ballads of the Scottish Border. Edited by S Henry Fomison. London: New Education Fellowship, 1924. Illustrations by Grace Cruttwell. 12mo, 30pp; pictorial wrappers (soiled). No 21 in the "World Library for Children (English Edition)".
390. Baring-Gould (S), and Sheppard (H Fleetwood): Songs and Ballads of the West. A Collection made from the Mouths of the People. Harmonised and arranged for Voice and Pianoforte by H Fleetwood Sheppard. Part[s] I - IV. London: Methuen [1891-]1900. Complete in four Parts bound in one volume. 4to, xlvii 3, 53 - [v] 61 - [v] 65 - [i] 57pp; contemporary gilt-lettered flexible leather (worn, spine defective). "Fourth edition, revised" of the first Part, possible first editions of Parts II -IV. Opie pencil note on title-page indicating the first edition was 1889.
391. Baring-Gould (Sabine): An Historical Sketch of English National Song. [London: privately printed for Gordon Hitchcock, ca1960s]. 8vo, 36pp; pictorial wrappers. First published in 1895 in "English Minstrelsie". With Mr Hitchcock's typed "with compliments" slip laid in (identifying himself as publisher).
392. Baring-Gould (Sabine): Folk Songs of the West Country. Collected by ... Annotated from the MSS at Plymouth Library and with additional material by Gordon Hitchcock. Newton Abbot: David & Charles [1974]. 4to, 112pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket.
393. (Oversize) Bawdy Ballads. [Compiled and Edited by Ed Cray. London:] Anthony Blond [1970]. A few illustrations. 4to, xxxv[i] 272pp (fore-edges a bit soiled); lettered boards, pictorial dust jacket (faded). With considerable annotations.
394. Bawdy British Folk Songs. Compiled and arranged by Tony McCarthy. London: Wolfe [1974]. 12mo, 127pp; printed wrappers. Includes guitar chords.
395. Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall. Selected, with an Introduction, by George Speaight. Newton Abbot: David & Charles [1975]. Illustrations. Small 4to, 96pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (faded).
396. Bayly (Thomas Haynes): Songs of Affections. Selected and edited with an introduction by W L Hanchant. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1932. Frontispiece portrait + plates + vignettes. 8vo, xxxiv 101pp; gilt-lettered decoratively blind-stamped cloth. First edition. Drawing-room songs by "Butterfly" Bayly.
397. The BBC Hymn Book. London: published for the British Broadcasting Corporation [by] Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1951. 8vo, unnumbered (inner hinge cracked); lettered cloth. ?First edition. Contains 542 English hymns, divided by theme. With inserted card bearing additional holograph verse for the hymn (#84) "My song is love unknown", identified by Iona Opie as "Peter Opie's insertion, when working on the Oxford Book of Children's Verse".
398. Beeching (H C): A Book of Christmas Verse. Selected by ... London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926. 8vo, xi 200pp; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth. Second edition, revised (originally published in 1895). Contains early and traditional carols, as well as hymns and poems about Christmas.
399. Bell (John), editor: Rhymes of Northern Bards: being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed for John Bell, by M Angus & Son, 1812. Armorial vignette on title. 12mo, 328pp; contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt with morocco lettering piece (joints cracked, head of spine worn). First edition. Important collection of provincial ballads, songs, &c.
400. Bell (Robert), editor: Early Ballads Illustrative of History Traditions and Customs. London: John W Parker & Son, 1856. 12mo, 252pp; contemporary morocco-backed cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered (a bit rubbed).
401. Bell (Robert), editor: Ancient Poems Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England. Taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts rare broadsides and scarce publications. London: John W Parker & Son, 1857. 12mo, [iv] 252pp (hinges cracked); cloth (rubbed) with printed spine label (chipped). Issued as part of "The Annotated Edition of the English Poets". Opie pencil note on fly-leaf indicating "anything relevant to O[xford] D[ictionary of] N[ursery] R[hymes] etc ent'd 5/70".
402. Benham (Charles Edwin): Essex Ballads. [Colchester:] Benham Newspapers [1960]. Illustrations by Andrew Dodd. 8vo, 47pp; pictorial wrappers. Second edition.
403. Blom (Eric): Music in England. West Drayton: Penguin Books [1947]. 12mo, 288pp; printed wrappers. A "Pelican" book.
404. (Oversize) Boulton (Harold), editor: Songs of the Four Nations. A Collection of Old Songs of the People of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, for the most part never before published with complete words and accompaniments ... The Music arranged by Arthur Somervell. London: J B Cramer & Co., 1893. Large 4to, viii[vi] 270[2]pp; full morocco gilt with college arms, spine gilt-lettered (extremities quite rubbed). Impressive collection of British folk songs. Title-page signed with editor's initials.
405. Bonner (Carey), editor: The Sunday School Hymnary. London: Sunday School Union, ca1900. Square 12mo, xiv + unpaginated; lettered cloth (rubbed). "Two Hundred and Sixtieth Thousand". A collection for children of 610 popular hymns. With Sunday School Union "Scripture Lessons for Sunday Schools" (1907) leaflet folded and mounted to endpaper.
406. The Book of English Songs. From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library [1851]. Engraved frontispiece, pictorial title + many text illustrations. 8vo, [iv] 312pp + [8]ads (front hinge separated) ; decoratively blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (spine chipped, torn at joints). First edition. Collection of popular and national songs.
407. The Book of French Songs. Translated by John Oxenford. To which is added Miss Costello's Early French Poetry. London: Frederick Warne & Co., ca1870s. Wood-engraved frontispiece, pictorial title + text illustrations. Small 8vo, xxxii 475[5]pp; gilt-lettered pebbled cloth (rubbed). Issued as one of the "Chandos Classics".
408. Bowra (C M): Primitive Song. [New York:] New American Library [1963], Plates. 12mo, 284pp + [4]ads; color pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition (originally issued the previous year). Examination of the songs of surviving "primitive" peoples.
409. (Oversize) Broadwood (Lucy E), and Maitland (J A Fuller): English County Songs. Words and Music. Collected and Edited by ... London: J B Cramer & Co. [?1893]. 4to, viii 185pp; printed wrappers (spine hand-lettered). Tradition English songs, divided by county.
410. Buchan (David): The Ballad and the Folk. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1972]. Map. 8vo, xii 326pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip requesting a review.
411. Buchan (Peter): Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, Hitherto Unpublished. With Explanatory Notes by ... Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875. Two volumes, with engraved portrait frontispiece in first. 8vo, xx 315 - vii 337pp untrimmed (hinges cracked and a bit shaken); cloth, printed spine labels (rubbed & soiled). Large paper issue: "Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1828".
412. Buchan (Peter): Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, Hitherto Unpublished. With Explanatory Notes by ... Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875. Two volumes, with engraved portrait frontispiece in first. 8vo, xx 315 - vii 337pp untrimmed; cloth, printed spine labels (rubbed & slightly dampstained). Regular issue: "Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1828".
413. Bullen (A H), editor: Lyrics from Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Small 8vo, xxxiii[ii] 233pp; richly gilt cloth. ?Fourth edition.
414. Burns (Robert): Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern; with Critical Observations and Biographical Notices. Edited by R H Cromek. London: T Cadell & W Davies, 1810. Two volumes, both with wood-engraved title vignette. 8vo, [ii] xvi 230 - [i]270pp + [2]ads untrimmed (scattered foxing); original boards, later linen rebacking with printed spine labels.
415. Burns (Robert): Remarks on Scottish Songs and Ballads, Ancient and Modern. With anecdotes of their authors. London: John James Chidley, 1841. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, x[vi] 384pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). Apparently reissued from James Cochrane's 1834 "Works" of Burns.
416. Burns (Robert): The Merry Muses, A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs gathered from many Sources. Np: "Privately Printed (not for sale) 1827 [but late 19th century]. 12mo, [i] vi [9-]90pp; 3/4 calf, spine richly gilt (rubbed). Deceptive facsimile edition of this early collection of bawdy ballads.
417. Burns (Robert): Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. [Kilmarnock: D Brown, 1909]. 8vo, 240pp uncut; plain wrappers. Facsimile edition of the original 1786 printing.
418. Burns (Robert): The Poetry. Edited by W E Henley and T F Henderson. Edinburgh: T C and E C Jack [1896-]1897. Complete in four volumes, each with etchings by William Hole, portraits, facsimile, &c. Large 8vo, xviii[ii] 464 - xii[i] 474 - xxii[i] 519 - xviii 348pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth. Superb "Centenary" edition of Burn's verse, much in the folk ballad vein.
419. Burns (Robert): Notes on Scottish Song. Written in an interleaved copy of The Scots Musical Museum with additions by Robert Riddell and others. Edited by James C Dick. London: Henry Frowde, 1908. Small 8vo, liii[ii] 134pp + [3]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition thus, limited to 255 copies (#7).
420. [Burns (Robert):] The Merry Muses of Caledonia. Edited by James Barke and Sydney Goodsir Smith. With a Prefatory Note and some authentic Burns Texts contributed by J DeLancey Ferguson. Edinburgh: M Macdonald, 1959. Facsimile frontispiece + one plate. 8vo, 175pp; cloth with printed spine label, glassine. First edition thus.
421. Cameron (David Kerr): The Ballad and the Plough. A Portrait of the Life of Old Scottish Farmtouns. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1978. Plates. 8vo, 253pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
422. Cancionero Y Romancero de Coplas Y Canciones de Arte Menor ... * Romancero de Romances Caballerescos E Historicos. Parte II. [both parts edited by] D Agustin Duran. Madrid: D Eusebio Aguado, 1829-1832. 8vo, [vii] 272 - 247pp (small tear in both title-pages); gilt-lettered cloth. Collection of Spanish ballads and related literature (including the poem of El Cid). Fly-leaf with presentation inscription to folklorist Dr Gaster (original mailing envelope mounted to endpaper).
423. Carpenter (J E), editor: The Book of Modern Songs. London: G Routledge & Co., 1858. Small 12mo, xii 275[1]pp (scattered soiling, hinge cracked); lettered cloth (soiled, worn). First edition. Inscribed "To Peter & Iona Opie from an Admirer Christmas 1957".
424. The Celtic Song Book. Being Representative Folk Songs of the Six Celtic Nations. Chosen by Alfred Perceval Graves. [London:] Ernest Benn, 1928. 4to, 331[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket (dusty). Irish, Scotch, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton songs.
425. Chambers (Edmund K): English Pastorals. Selected and with an Introduction by ... London: Blackie & Son, 1895. 8vo, xlviii 280pp + 23[1] ads; gilt-lettered decorative cloth (lightly soiled). Issued as part of "The Warwick Library".
426. Chambers (E K), and Sidgwick (F), editors: Early English Lyrics, Amorous, Divine, Moral & Trivial. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. 12mo, x 384pp; linen-backed boards, spine lettered, dust jacket (chipped). Second printing (originally published in 1907). Includes Chamber's essay "Some Aspects of Mediaeval Lyric".
427. Chambers (E K): English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945. 8vo, [v] 247[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. Includes "The Carol and 15th Century Lyric" (pp66-121) and "Popular Narrative Poetry and the Ballad" (pp122-184).
428. (Chapbook) Bonny Mally Stewart. To which are added, The Sailor's Journal. Tak your auld cloak about ye. Stirling: printed by W Macnie, 1823. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp uncut; self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
429. (Chapbook) The Hallow Fair; to which are added, Queen Mary's Lamentation, The Contented Lover, Ungrateful Nanny, Homeward Bound. Stirling: printed by W Macnie, 1826. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp untrimmed, with inner bifolium simply laid in as issued (soiled); self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
430. (Chapbook) He Comes from the Wars. Love's Young Dream, A Soldiers Gratitude. Father Paul. My Fond Shepherds. King David was a Soldier. Glasgow: printed for the Booksellers, ca 1820s. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp uncut; self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
431. (Chapbook) The Highland Piper's Advice. Airdrie: printed by J & J Neil, ca1830s. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp untrimmed, with inner bifolium simply laid in as issued; self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
432. (Chapbook) A New Song Called Auld Scotia Free. Airdrie: printed by J & J Neil, ca1830s. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp untrimmed, with inner bifolium simply laid in as issued; self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
433. (Chapbook) Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch. To which is added, The Highland Plaid. Neil Gow's Fareweel, John Anderson, My Jo, Maria. Glasgow: R Hutchison, 1823. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp uncut; self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
434. (Chapbook) Three Famous New Songs called Effects of Whisky. The Valley Below. Larry O'Gaff. Paisley: printed by & for G Caldwell, Jun, ca1820s. Crude woodcut on title. 12mo, 8pp uncut; self-wrappers. Collection of Scottish ballads.
435. (Chapbook) The Warbler. A New Song Book. Newcastle: J Marshall, ca1820. 12mo, 24pp uncut; self-wrapper. Chapbook containing 18 popular ballads.
436. (a-q) (Chapbooks) Collection of 17 different chapbooks each entitled A Garland of New Songs, published by J Marshall, Newcastle upon Tyne, ca1820. Together, 17 separate volumes each with woodcut title-page illustrations. 12mo, 8pp uncut; self-wrappers. Chapbook collections of popular ballads.
437. (Chapbooks). A Garland of New Songs. Newcastle: J Marshall, ca1820. Woodcut illustration on title-page. 12mo, 8pp uncut; self-wrapper. Together with a 1966 facsimile of the same, printed by Hindson & Andrew Reid in conjunction with The Newcastle Imprint Club, from a copy of the chapbook in the University Library, Newcastle upon Tyne. Illustration on title. 12mo, 8pp uncut, self-wrapper; housed in printed folder (further protected in plain envelope captioned by the Opies). This particular version of this chapbook is not included in the previous group.
438. (Oversize) Chappell (W): The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time: A History of the Ancient Songs, Ballads, and of the Dance Tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads. Also a short account of the minstrels. The whole of the Airs harmonized by G A Macfarren. London: Chappell & Co [1855-1859]. Complete in two volumes, the first with facsimile plates. 4to, xx 384 - [i] [385-]822pp + [1]errata + [1]ads (1st plate + 2nd title repaired, scattered foxing); modern 1/2 calf over boards, spines gilt. Dates given in pencil by the Opies.
439. (Oversize) Chappell (William): Old English Popular Music. A New Edition with a Preface and Notes, and the Earlier Examples Entirely Revised by H Ellis Wooldridge. London: Chappell & Co and Macmillan & Co., 1893. Volume I only 9of two), with facsimile frontispiece. Large 4to, xxiii334pp (top edges gilt others untrimmed); vellum-backed gilt cloth boards (badly rubbed), spine gilt-lettered. First edition thus.
440. Child (Francis James), editor: English and Scottish Ballads. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861. Two volumes (? of eight). Small 8vo, xxxii 331 - v 402pp (1st volume lacking half-title); contemporary 1/4 polished calf, spines gilt with lettering and numbering pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Early version of the author's landmark collection, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, issued in Parts between 1882 and 1898.
441. Child (Francis James), editor: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. New York: The Folklore Press in association with Pageant Book Company, 1957. Complete in five volumes bound here in three, the first with portrait frontispiece. 4to, xxxi 508 - [iv-]ix [i] 515 - [v-]ix 521 - [ii-]ix 525 - [iii-]ix 565pp + [3]errata including endpaper (first hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. An excellent reprinting of this essential collection of folk ballads.
442. The Children's Service Book, with Hymns, Litanies, Carols, and Prayers for Public and Private Use. Edited by M Woodward. With the accompanying music selected, arranged, and edited by C J Ridsdale. London: Skeffington & Son, 1907. 8vo, xviii 360pp + [2]ads (title browned); gilt-lettered pictorial cloth (edges rubbed). "Eleventh edition".
443. Christmas Carols New and Old. The Words Edited by Henry Ramsden Bramley; the Music Edited by John Stainer. London: Novello & Co., ca1880s. 8vo, [i] 184pp + [2]ads; decorative cloth, cover elaborately gilt. Contains 70 carols.
444. Clarke (Mary Cowden): The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello, by his Daughter. London: Novello & Co., ca1860s. Portrait frontispiece (damp-stained) + pictorial tailpiece. 8vo, 66[2]pp; richly gilt cloth. Biography of this Victorian music publisher, well-known for his sheet music (p60: "No man was more successful than Vincent Novello in producing music in forms that placed it within reach of the least wealthy").
445. A Collection of Psalms & Hymns, arranged for the Public Worship of God, in St James' Chapel, Broughton-Place, Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1824. Small 12mo, xvi 164pp; gilt leather (rubbed). Handy edition of 142 hymns.
446. The Common Muse. An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Poetry 15th-20th Century. Edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto & Allan Edwin Rodway with an Introduction and Notes. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1965]. 12mo, 639pp; pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition.
Lilly Library PR1181 .P67 1965
447. The Convivial Songster, being a Select Collection of the Best Songs in the English Language; Humuorous, Satirical, Bachanalian, &c. &c. &c. with the Music prefixed to each Song. London: John Fielding, ca1782. Engraved title with large vignette + engraved frontispiece. 12mo, xii 371[1]pp (scattered soiling); contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). With slip laid in bearing Opie holograph list (ink & pencil) of song citations.
448. Copper (Bob): Songs and Southern Breezes. Country Folk and Country Ways. Foreword by John Arlott. London: Heinemann [1973]. Illustrations by the author. 8vo, xv 297pp; gilt-lettered boards, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip requesting a review. Folk songs of Sussex and Hampshire.
449. Copper (Bob): A Song for Every Season. [St Albans:] Paladin [1975]. Plates. 8vo, xiii 288pp + [2]ads; color pictorial wrappers. Seasonal folk songs.
450. The Cowley Carol Book for Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide. Compiled and arranged by George Ratcliffe Woodward and Charles Wood. London: A R Mowbray & Co. [1952]. 8vo, vii 132pp; printed wrappers over card boards. Combines the First Series (1902) and Second Series (1919) into this Complete Edition (originally issued 1947).
451. The Crack of All Cracks Is the Crack of Good Song. London: Charles Daly, ca1850s. Engraved frontispiece, pictorial title + plates. 24mo, [iii] 250pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Opie holograph note laid in" p9 song about the song 'Pop goes the Weasel'".
452. Cunningham (Allan): The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; with an Introduction and Notes, Historical and Critical, and Characters of the Lyric Poets. London: John Taylor, 1825. Complete in four volumes. 8vo, vii 352 - viii352 - viii 352 - xii 364pp; early 1/2 calf, spines with gilt-morocco lettering and numbering pieces (bindings broken, covers detached). ?First edition.
453. Curwen (John), editor: The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book. A Book for the Congregation and Sabbath School. The Harmonies revised or entirely re-cast by James Turtle. London: Ward & Co, ca1860s. xvi 160pp; blind-stamped lettered cloth (rubbed, damp-stained). Hymns for children.
454. "Daily Express" Community Song Book. Collected and edited by John Goss. Pianoforte Arrangements by Garrard Williams [et al]. London: "Daily Express" National Community Singing Movement [1927]. 4to, 208pp; gilt-lettered cloth.
455. Dean-Smith (Margaret): A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952 with an Index to their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction. Foreword by Gerald Abraham. Liverpool: University Press, in association with The English Folk Dance & Song Society, 1954. 4to, 119[1]pp; cloth-backed decorative boards, spine gilt-lettered, printed dust jacket (rubbed). First edition. With prospectus laid in. With three ALS to Peter Opie from the author, 5 August 1954 - 29 January 1959. Also laid in: "A List of Books for the Study of English Folk Song" comprising English Folk Dance & Song Society Leaflet #7 (4to, [5]ff typed on one side only).
456. Deutsche Volkslieder. Munich: Wilhelm Goldman ca1972. 12mo, 189[5]pp; color pictorial wrappers. 3rd printing. Collection of German folksongs. Opie pencil note describing this as "an 'office' book - no editor".
457. Disher (Maurice Wilson): Victorian Song. From Dive to Drawing Room. London: Phoenix House [1955]. Plates showing music sheet covers. 8vo, 256pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
458. Duncan (Edmonstoune): Lyrics from the Old Song Books. Collected and Edited by ... London: George Routledge & Sons, 1927. 8vo, vii 611pp; gilt-lettered cloth (slightly blistered)Contains 672 lyrics.
459. Dunstan (R), and Bygott (C E): Songs of the Ages. Words and Airs. Revised by F Westcott. Huddersfield: Schofield & Sims [1963]. 8vo, viii 113pp; pictorial cloth (faded). Second printing (first revised in 1962). Songs from the Mediaeval to the Modern period.
460. [D'Urfey (Thomas):] Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy; being a Collection of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Vol. IV [only, of Six]. London: printed by W Pearson , for J Tonson, 1719. Woodcut vignette on title. 12mo, [viii] 352pp; contemporary calf (badly worn & chipped). Early (perhaps first) edition of this important collection of ballads & songs (which was originally published 1719-1720). Opie pencil note on endpaper citing six pages.
461. Ebsworth (J Woodfall), editor: Merry Drollery Compleat being Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, &c., Collected by W N, C B, R S, & J G, Lovers of Wite, both Parts; 1661, 1670, 1691 ... Edited, with a Special Introduction, and Appendix of Notes ... Boston, Lincolnshire: printed by Robert Roberts, 1875. Etched frontispiece. 8vo, [viii]xl 408pp + [8]ads untrimmed; cloth with printed spine label (rubbed). First edition: one of only 400 printed for Subscribers (#334) as per hand-written colophon signed with printer's initials. Facsimile of the 1691 Merry Drollery.
462. Ebsworth (J Woodfall), editor: Westminster Drolleries: both Parts, of 1671, 1672; being a Choice Collection of Songs and Poems, Sung at Court & Theatres ... Edited, with an Introduction on the Literature of the Drolleries; a copious Appendices of Notes ... Boston, Lincolnshire: printed by Robert Roberts, 1875. 8vo, [viii]xliv[iii] 125 - [vi] 132pp + [ii]lxxxiv Appendix + [3]ads untrimmed; cloth with printed spine label (rubbed). First edition: one of only 400 printed for Subscribers (#82) as per hand-written colophon signed with printer's initials. Facsimile reprint, with an important introduction.
463. Ebsworth (J Woodfall), editor: Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets. Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors ... to which are added the extra Songs of Merry Drollery, 1661, and an Antidote Against Melancholy, 1661: Edited, with special Introductions, and Appendices of Notes ... Boston, Lincolnshire: printed by Robert Roberts, 1876. Etched frontispiece. 8vo, xxxviii[vi] 426pp + [10]ads untrimmed; cloth with printed spine label (rubbed). First edition: one of only 400 printed for Subscribers (#330) as per hand-written colophon signed with printer's initials. Chiefly a facsimile reprint of the 1656 Choyce Drollery.
464. Edmonds (W Lambert), editor: The Cremorne Comic Song-Book. London: Thomas Allman & Son, 1854-1855. Two volumes issued as one, the first with engraved portrait frontispiece + pictorial title. 16mo, viii 184 - viii 184pp; gilt-pictorial cloth ((soiled). Contains "First" and "Second" series.
465. Evans (Thomas): Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected, and Reprinted from rare Copies and MSS. With Notes. [London:] T Evans, 1784. Complete in four volumes, each with large copper-engraved title vignette. 8vo, [vi]334 + [2]ads - [vii] 308 - [viii] 328 - [vii] 335[1]pp; contemporary polished calf (worn, joints cracked), gilt-lettered morocco spine labels (three lacking). Engraved bookplates "Bibliotheca Lindesiana". Second edition (originally published the same year): noting that none of these ballads "are inserted in Dr Percy's Collection" (i.e., "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry").
466. Everyman's Book of British Ballads. Edited by Roy Palmer. London: J M Dent & Sons [1980]. Facsimile illustrations. 8vo, 256pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With author's "with compliments" slip laid in.
467. Farmer (John S), editor: Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the Year A D 1800. Volume V [only]. Np: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1897. 4to, xx 269pp untrimmed; parchment-backed boards, printed spine labels (spine badly worn).
468. (Oversize) Farmer (John): Scarlet and Blue or Songs for Soldiers and Sailors. London: Cassell & Co., 1900. 4to, 206pp (?lacking half-title); printed wrappers (worn, covers detached).
469. (Oversize) The First Flotsam & Jetsam Album. London: Lawrence Wright Music Co [1928]. 4to, 32pp; pictorial wrappers designed by Ray. Collection of popular ballads "written, composed and sung by Mr Flotsam and Mr Jetsam", including "Why Not a Real Kentucky Song?".
470. Fitzgibbon (H Macaulay): Early English and Scottish Poetry 1250 - 1600. Selected and Edited, with a Critical Introduction and Notes, by ... London: Walter Scott, 1888. 8vo, lxxxvii[i] 437pp; early 3/4 calf, spine gilt with morocco labels (edges rubbed). First edition. A scholarly edition, with much ballad material.
471. Folk Music. A Catalog of Folk Songs, Ballads, Dances, Instrumental Pieces, and Folk Tales of the United States and Latin America on Phonograph Records. [Washington:] Library of congress, Music Division [1964]. 8vo, iv 107pp + [4] order forms; self-wrappers. Housed in original Library of Congress mailing envelope, addressed to the Opies, and further captioned by them.
472. Folk Music Journal 1998. Volume 7, Number 4. [London: English Folk Dance & Song Society, 1998]. Small 4to, pp397-543; pictorial wrappers. Special issue devoted to the James Madison Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
473. Folk Music of the United States and Latin America. Combined Catalog of Phonograph Records. Washington: The Library of Congress, 1953. 8vo, v 47pp + [4] order blanks; printed self-wrappers. Housed in bookseller's mailing envelope addressed to the Opies, further captioned by them. With 4 additional order forms laid in.
474. Folk Songs and Dances by Escolo de la Mar. Offered to their Passengers by the Orient-Line. [?Marseilles, ca1930s]. Photographic illustration of the folk group "Escolo de la Mar". 8vo, [6]pp; pictorial self-wrappers. Includes programme.
475. Fox (Adam): English Hymns and Hymn Writers. London: Collins, 1947. Color plates + black-and-white text illustrations. Small 4to, 47[1]pp; lettered boards, printed dust jacket. First edition. Issued in the "Britain in Pictures" series.
476. Francis & Day's Community Song Book No 2. London: Francis, Day & Hunter, ca1930s. 4to, 48pp; printed wrappers. Contains 32 complete songs with words and music, including popular tunes, folk songs, ballads, &c.
477. Fuld (James J): The Book of World-Famous Music. Classical, Popular and Folk. Foreword by William Lichtenwanger. New York: Crown[1975]. 8vo, xiii 688pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. "New Revised Edition" (first published thus in 1971). With Opie holograph list of nursery rhyme-related citations laid in. Also with three TLS from the author to the Opies (27 August 1958, 5 March 1963, 3 June 1963), asking them questions and exchanging information.
478. Furnivall (Frederick J), editor: Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Loose and Humorous Songs. "London: for the Editor, 1868". 8vo, viii 127[1]pp; printed wrappers. Facsimile reprint, ?ca1970s.
479. Gales (R L): A Posy of Folk Songs. London: Herbert & Daniel [1912]. 8vo, viii 86[1] + [4]ads; linen-backed boards, printed labels (dusty). First edition, one of 1000 copies.
480. Gerould (Gordon Hall): The Ballad of Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. 8vo, vii 311pp; pictorial wrappers. First "Galaxy Book" edition (originally published in 1932).
Lilly Library PN1376 .G4 1957
481. Giraud (S Louis): Songs That Won the War. "Daily Express" Community Song Book No 3. London: Lane Publications [1930]. Portrait of Prince Edward. 4to, 96pp; lettered cloth (faded). WWI songs, with musical notations.
482. Goodman (Jonathan): Bloody Versicles. The Rhymes of Crime. Newton Abbot: David & Charles [1971]. Facsimile illustrations. 8vo, 224pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Ballads relating to specific crimes. Extensive Opie pencil notations on fly-leaf.
483. Graham (Billy): Greater London Crusade Song Book. Compiled by Cliff Barrows ... assistance given by Frank Colquhoun. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, ca1950s. Full-page portrait of Graham + small portrait of compiler. 8vo, [iv] 95[1]pp; pictorial wrappers. Hymnal for early British Billy Graham crusade.
484. (Oversize) Grammond (Peter): Your Own, Your Very own! A Music Hall Scrapbook. London: Ian Allan [1972]. Profusely illustrated. 4to, 96pp; gilt-lettered cloth (a bit bowed), color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
485. Gray (Alexander): Sir Halewyn. Examples in European Balladry and Folk Song. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd [1949]. Small 8vo, 87pp; cloth-backed decorative boards with printed cover label. First edition. Opie pencil note on fly-leaf: "traditional European ballads translated into Scots".
486. Greene (Richard Leighton): The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Frontispiece. 4to, clxxii[i] 517pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Includes a superb long Introduction.
487. (Oversize) Greig (Gavin): Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs. Collected in Aberdeenshire by ... and Edited, with an Introductory Essay, Collations, and Notes, by Alexander Keith. Aberdeen: Buchan Club, 1925. 4to, xliv 320pp (top edges gilt others untrimmed); gilt-lettered cloth (faded). First edition. A handsome scholarly production.
488. Grigson (Geoffrey), editor: The Faber Book of Popular Verse. With an Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. London: Faber & Faber [1971]. 8vo, 376pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Collection of verse based on folksongs, ballads, carols, &c.
489. The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and other Poetical Pieces, (Many of which are Original), accompanied with Notes, Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical, and a Short Essay on the Poets of Renfrewshire. Paisley. Alex. Gardner, 1872. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, lxxviii 454pp + viii List of Subscribers (untrimmed); cloth (rubbed and dusty, head of spine chipped), printed spine label (chipped). "Originally published in 1819".
490. The Harp of Renfrewshire, Second Series: A Collection of Songs and other Poetical Pieces, (Many of which are Original), accompanied with Notes, Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical. Alex. Gardner, 1873. 8vo, [ii] vii 494pp + xxxiv Notes/Index + viii List of Subscribers (untrimmed); cloth (rubbed and dusty), printed spine label (rubbed).
491. Hatton (J L): The Songs of England. A Collection of 200 English Melodies, including the Most Popular Traditional Ditties, and the Principal Songs and Ballads of the Last Three Centuries. Edited, with New Symphonies and Accompaniments, by ... London: Boosey & Co., ca1870s. Two volumes. 4to, [iv] 240 + 8 ads - [iv] 236pp + 8 ads (hinges cracked); gilt-lettered decorative cloth (extremities rubbed).
492. Hatton (J L): A Collection of New, Standard, and Popular Humorous Songs, Selected and Edited with New Symphonies & Accompaniments. London: Boosey & Co, ca1880s. 4to, [ii]iv 194pp + 8 ads; gilt-lettered pictorial cloth (extremities rubbed). Third edition.
493. Henderson (Hamish), and Collinson (Francis): New Child Ballad Variants from Oral Tradition. Reprinted from Scottish Studies, Volume 9, Part I, [Edinburgh] 1965. 8vo, 33pp; printed wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed "All best wishes for Christmas and Hogmanay, Hamish". Title refers to Professor Francis J Child. With ALS from Hamish to Peter & Iona Opie, noting an article by him in the Chapbook.
494. Henderson (T F): The Ballad in Literature. Cambridge: University Press, 1912. Title with decorative border. 12mo, ix128pp + [4]ads; lettered decorative cloth (faded). First edition. One of the "Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature".
495. Henderson (W), editor: Victorian Street Ballads. A Selection of Popular Ballads sold in the Street in the Nineteenth Century. London: Country Life, 1937. Facsimile illustrations. 8vo, 159[1]pp; cloth-backed boards with paper labels, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
496. [Herd (David):] Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads &c. Edinburgh: Lawrie & Symington, 1791. Two volumes, both with copper-engraved title with vignette. 12mo, 360 - 371pp; contemporary sheep, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels (edges & spine rather worn).
497. Herd (David): Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads &c. Collected by ... Reprinted from the Edition of 1776, with an Appendix, containing the Pieces Substituted in the Edition of 1791 ... [Edinburgh: Kerr & Richardson, 1869]. Two volumes, with engraved title vignettes. 12mo, iv[i], ix 312 - [vii] 283[2], 74pp untrimmed; cloth with printed spine labels (faded, spine ends worn, joints torn on 2nd volume). Handsome facsimile edition of this important early collection.
498. [Herd (David):] Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads &c. [Edinburgh: Kerr & Richardson, 1869]. Two volumes, with engraved title vignettes. 12mo, [iii] ix 312 - [v] 283[2], 74pp untrimmed (lacking title-pages); contemporary 1/2 morocco, spines gilt (lightly rubbed). Facsimile edition with titles removed, perhaps for deceptive purposes. Both volumes signed by Iona Opie on fly-leaves.
499. Herd (David): Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Hans Hecht. Edinburgh: William J Hay, 1904. Engraved title vignette. Large 8vo, xv[i] 348pp untrimmed; linen-backed boards, printed spine label (rubbed, a bit soiled). First edition thus, one of 100 copies on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper (#72) signed with the editor's initials (total printed: 750 copies). This copy inscribed on the fly-leaf "With Annotations by Peter Opie 1947 Alton" (with several ink notations by Peter Opie in the text). Endpaper with further pencil note by Peter Opie about the editor, Hans Hecht. With typed sheet outlining a lecture meeting, 19 February 1964, in which Hamish Henderson lectured on "Scots Nonsense Rhymes and David Herd's Dreg Song" (with additional Opie ink notes below). Also with small sheet of ink notes by Mrs Opie laid in relating to this text.
500. Hodgart (M J C): The Ballads. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1950. 8vo, 184pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Opie's hand-written list of citations on fly-leaf.
501. Hodgart (Matthew): The Faber Book of Ballads. London: Faber & Faber [1965]. 8vo, 267pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, review copy with. publisher's slip laid in. Also British Book News slip requesting a review.
502. Hogg (James): The Jacobite Relics of Scotland; being the Songs, Airs, and Legends of the Adherents to the House of Stuart. * Second Series. Collected and Illustrated by ... Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1874. Two volumes, portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xx 424 - viii 480pp untrimmed; cloth (rubbed), printed spine labels (chipped). Excellent reprint of the 1821 original edition.
503. Hogg (James): The Jacobite Relics of Scotland; being the Songs, Airs, and Legends of the Adherents to the House of Stuart. Second Series. Collected and Illustrated by ... Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1874. Large 8vo, viii 480pp untrimmed; cloth (rubbed and soiled), printed spine labels (chipped). Large paper copy of the "Second Series" volume of this set.
504. Humphreys (Arthur L): The Berkshire Book of Song, Rhyme & Steeple Chime. A gathering together of some pleasant minor antiquities such as Bell Mottoes, Epitaphs both reverend and ridiculous; also Drinking Songs, Toasts; Rhymes to do with games on village greens ... London: Methuen & Co., 1935. 8vo, viii 266[1]pp untrimmed; cloth-backed boards (faded), printed spine label. First edition.
505. Humphries (Charles), and Smith (William C): Music Publishing in the British Isles from the beginning until the middle of the nineteenth century. A Dictionary of engravers, printers, publishers and music sellers, with a historical introduction. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970. Plates. Large 8vo, vii 392pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Superb reference.
506. Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes. Collected and edited by Walter Jekyll. With an Introduction by Alice Werner, and Appendices on Traces of African Melody in Jamaica by C S Myers, and on English Airs and Motifs in Jamaica by Lucy E Broadwood. London: published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1907. 8vo, xxxviii[i] 288p; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition.
507. Journal of the International Folk Music Council. Volume VI - 1954. [Cambridge:] W Heffer & Sons, with the assistance of the International Music Council under the auspices of UNESCO for The International Folk Music Council [1954]. Plates. Large 8vo, iv 96pp; printed wrappers. With the International Folk Music Council's Honorary Secretary's [i.e., Maud Karpeles] "with compliments" card laid in. Includes numerous articles in French and English from the Sixth Conference, as well as reviews, obituaries, &c.
508. Karpeles (Maud), editor: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Collected by Cecil J Sharp. Comprising two hundred and seventy-four Songs and Ballads with nine hundred and sixty-eight Tunes. Including thirty-nine Tunes contributed by Olive Dame Campbell. London: Oxford University Press, Geoffrey Cumberlege [1952]. Complete in two volumes, the first with folding map frontispiece. Large 8vo, xxxvii[ii] 435[1] - xi 410[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jackets (spotted). Second printing (first published in 1932), title-page of first volume signed by Karpeles. With 2 ALS from Karpeles to the Opies: 29 December 1957 (with original mailing envelope) and 26 December 1968 (plus printed Christmas card from 1953).
509. Karpeles (Maud): Folk Songs from Newfoundland. Collected and Edited by ... London: Faber & Faber [1971]. 4to, 340pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
510. Kidson (Frank): Traditional Tunes. A Collection of Ballad Aors, chiefly obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland; together with their appropriate words from broadsides and the oral tradition. Collected and edited with illustrative notes. Oxford: Chas. Taphouse & Son, 1891. 8vo, 174[2]pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth bound by Susan Verner, Dec. 1953 (as per Opie note on rear endpaper). First edition, one of 200 Subscriber's copies (unnumbered). Bound with 4 ALS from Anne Gilchrist to Peter Opie, April-May 1948 (together 10pp) offering this volume (unbound) and discussing related nursery rhyme questions. With Peter Opie's pencil note on fly-leaf identifying Kidson.
511. Knight (William), editor: The Poets of Christmas. London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, 1907. 8vo, 192pp (cocked, spine faded); gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Collection of carols, hymns, poems, etc., devoted to Christmas.
512. Kolb (Sylvia & John): A Treasury of Folk Songs. Edited and Compiled by ... New York: Bantam Book [1948]. 12mo, xv 240pp (one gathering sprung); color pictorial wrappers. First edition. Collection of American folk songs.
513. La Villemarqué (Hersart de): Barzaz-Breiz. Chants Populaires de la Bretagne. Recueillis, traduits et annotées par ... Paris: Perrin, 1903. 8vo, lxxxii[i] 539pp + [II]XLIV musical notations; pictorial wrappers (dusty). Tenth edition.
514. Lang (Iain): Background of the Blues. London: Workers' Music Association, ca late 1930s. 12mo, 55[1]pp; printed wrappers. Third impression.
515. Langbridge (Frederick), editor: The Tablets of the Heart: Poems, Rhymes, and Aphorisms, Domestic, Social, Complimentary, and Amatory. Christmas, New Year, Easter, Birthdays, Friendship, Love, Marriage, Birth, Bereavement. London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1883. With ten mounted color plates. 4to, xii 380pp + [1]ads; lettered gilt-decorative cloth (faded, soiled). First edition.
516. Legman (G): Pills to Purge Melancholy. A Bibliographical Note. [Reprint from Midwest Folklore, Vol IX, No 2, 1959,] 1959. 8vo, pp89102; printed wrappers. A study of this popular early song-book.
517. Lloyd (A L): The Singing Englishman. An Introduction to Folksong. London: Workers' Music Association, ca late 1930s. 12mo, 70pp + [2]ads; printed wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
518. Lloyd (A L): Singing Englishman. A Collection of folksongs specially prepared for a festival of Britain Concert given in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain. [London:] Workers' Music Association [1951]. 4to, 44pp; decorative wrappers (lightly spotted). Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
519. Lloyd (A L): Folk Song in England. [London:] Panther Arts [1969]. 12mo, 445[3]pp; color pictorial wrappers. Published with the Workers' Music Association.
520. Love (Samuel): Poems of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by ... To which is added, "Lover's metrical Tales". London: Ward, Lock & Co., ca1860. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. 8vo, xxvii409[1]pp + 10 ads (front hinge cracked); cloth with printed spine label (worn). Contains many Irish songs.
521. MacQueen-Pope (W): The Melodies Linger On. The Story of the Music Hall. London: W H Allen [1951]. Plates. 8vo, [xiv]459pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
522. Maidment (James), editor: Scotish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Traditionary. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1868. Two volumes, with pictorial titles + occasional vignette decorations. 8vo, xiv[i] 364 - vi 344pp untrimmed (hinges cracked); decorative boards (joints rubbed), printed spine labels (chipped). First edition.
523. Marching Songs. A Hand-Book of national Melodies for our Soldiers in Camp, in Barracks, or on the March. Together with Tommies' Tunes. A Series of original songs adapted to popular airs in marching time. London: Stanley Paul & Co [1914]. Small 12mo, 60pp; pictorial wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. With Opie holograph note laid in commenting on the nature of these early WWI songs.
524. Martinengo-Cesaresco (Evelyn), Countess: Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs. London: George Redway, 1886. 8vo, xl 395pp + 24 ads; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth (soiled, shelf sticker on spine). First edition.
525. Martinengo-Cesaresco (Evelyn), Countess: Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs. London: J M Dent & Sons. Ca1910s. With double-page decorative title. 12mo, ix[i] 295[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth. "Everyman's Library" edition.
526. McGlennon's Chorus Book. Standard Old-Time Popular Modern. 1,001 Choruses for Entertainments Parties Family Gatherings Socials Community Singing Clubs [and] All Who Sing or Listen. London: Felix McGlennon, ca1930s. 8vo, 96pp; wrappers. "Enlarged Edition".
527. Moore (J S), editor: The Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad Poetry of Great Britain, Historical, Traditional, and Romantic: together with a selection of modern imitations, and translations. With introductory notices, glossary, &c. London: Bell & Daldy, 1860. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Large 8vo, [x] 870[2]pp (top edges gilt); leather-backed cloth boards (spine lacking). "New Edition". Signed on the fly-leaf: "Ernest Penrose Arnold. Rugby. Jany 1, 1862".
528. More Than Twice 55 Community Songs. London: Hawkes & Son, ca1926. 8vo, [64]pp; pictorial wrappers (spine chipped, creased). "647th thousand". Contains 107 songs, anthems, hymns, ballads, &c.
529. Morgan (Joseph Brown), editor: The Christian Endeavour Hymnal. Issued under the Auspices of the Council of the Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Musical Editor: Carey Bonner. London: Andrew Melrose, for The Christian Endeavour Council , 1897. 8vo, xxxix[i] 456pp (scattered foxing, last few leaves with marginal tears and repairs); lettered cloth (rubbed). "Second edition, with Supplement". With gift label on fly-leaf from the Commercial Road Sunday School.
530. Morrell (R Conyers): The Romance of Our Old Village Choirs. With Foreword by Sydney H Nicholson. [?London, ca 1930s]. Illustrations. 8vo, 24pp including ads; pictorial wrappers (a bit soiled). Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. Reprinted with additions from The Church Monthly.
531. Nettel (Reginald): Seven Centuries of Popular Song. A Social History of Urban Ditties. London: Phoenix House [1956]. Twelve plates. 8vo, 248pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
532. Nettel (Reginald): A Social History of Traditional Song. [London:] Adam & Dart [1969]. 8vo, 282pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First published in 1954 under the title Sing a Song of England.
533. (Oversize) Nichols (Beverley): A Book of Old Ballads. Selected and with an Introduction by ... London: Hutchinson & Co., 1934. With sixteen color plates + text illustrations by H M Brock 4to, xxxix279[1]pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered suede, glassine wrapper (torn & chipped) with printed flaps. First edition. Elaborate children's gift book.
534. The Oxford Book of Carols. By Percy Dearmer, R Vaughan Williams [and] Martin Shaw. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press [1931]. 8vo, xxix 491[1]pp (fly-leaf removed); gilt-lettered decorative blind-stamped cloth (rubbed, creased). Third impression. Contains the complete words and music. Opie pencil note on fly-leaf.
535. The Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse. Chosen and edited by Frederick Woods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 8vo, xxvi 397pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
536. The Oxford Song Book. Vol II [only]. Collected and arranged by Thomas Wood. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. 12mo, xv 111[1]pp; lettered cloth. First edition. Verses without music.
537. The Oxford Song Book. Melody Edition. Vol II [only]. Collected and arranged by Thomas Wood. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press [1949]. 12mo, viii 170[2]pp; flexible lettered cloth. Ninth impression. Verses with music.
538. Page (Martin), editor: For Gawsake Don't Take Me! The Songs, Ballads, Verses, Monologues, etc. of the Call-Up Years, 1939-1963. London: Panther, Granada Publishing [1977]. Illustrations by Bill Tidy. 12mo, [viii] 195[1]pp + [3]ads; color pictorial wrapper.
539. Palmer (Roy): Room for Company. Folk Songs and Ballads. Selected and edited by ... Piano Edition with arrangements by Katharine Thomson. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. 4to, [iv] 75pp; pictorial wrappers. With TLS from Palmer to the Opies, 7 January 1972, sending this book and asking a nursery rhyme question.
540. (Oversize) Palmer (Roy), and Raven (Jon): The Rigs of the Fair. Popular sports and pastimes in the nineteenth century through songs, ballads and contemporary accounts. Selected and edited by ... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [1976]. Facsimile and photographic illustrations. 4to, 64pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in.
541. Palmer (Roy), editor: The Rambling Soldier. Life in the lower ranks, 1750-1900, through soldiers' songs and writings. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1977]. Numerous illustrations. 8vo, ix 309[1]pp (half-title detached); color pictorial wrappers. Publisher's review slip laid in.
542. (Oversize) Palmer (Roy): Strike the bell. Transport by road, canal, rail and sea in the nineteenth century through songs, ballads and contemporary accounts. Selected and edited by ... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [1978]. Facsimile and photographic illustrations. 4to, 64pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in.
543. Paramount Song Book for Community Singing. Glasgow: Mozart Allan, ca1950s. 16mo, 83[1]pp; printed wrappers. Contains 78 songs.
544. Parry (C Hubert H): The Evolution of the Art of Music. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1897. 8vo, x 342pp; gilt cloth. 2nd edition. Includes discussion of folk music.
545. Pearse (Mark Guy): West Country Songs. London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1902. Frontispiece + 7 plates. 8vo, x 131[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded). "Extra-illustrated" by an early owner, who has mounted several clippings, &c.
546. The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. From the Journal of the Folk Song Society and the Journal of the English Folk dance and Song Society. Selected and edited by R Vaughan Williams & A L Lloyd. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1959]. 8vo, 128pp; pictorial wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. First edition.
547. The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. From the Journal of the Folk Song Society and the Journal of the English Folk dance and Song Society. Selected and edited by R Vaughan Williams & A L Lloyd. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1968]. 8vo, 128pp; color pictorial wrappers. Later edition. With editor's "with compliments" slip laid in.
548. The People's Song Book containing 94 Favourite Scottish Songs, 46 Favourite English Songs, 41 Favourite Irish Songs, 37 Favourite Welsh Songs with Music in Sol-Fa and Staff Notations. Introductory notices of the national Music of Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. London: John Leng & Co., ca 1900. 4to, [ii] 48, 48, 48, 48, 48pp (hinges cracked, poor paper); cloth with mounted decorative titles (spine titles chipped).
549. [Percy (Thomas):] Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, together with some few of later date. London: J Dodsley, 1775. Complete in three volumes, each with engraved vignette on the title and one headpiece and one tailpiece; the first volume also with engraved frontispiece after Wale + engraved arms on dedication. 8vo, lxxviii[iv] 376 + [2] ads/errata - [iii] iii[i] 404 - [iii] xxxix 359[1]pp (scattered foxing, two fly-leaves detached); contemporary tree calf (edges a bit worn, joints cracked, lacking spine labels). Third edition (originally published in 1765). This important work has been described as "epoch-making" (see Dictionary of National Biography). It promoted with lasting effect the revival of interest in early English ballads and songs. Samuel Johnson apparently had some hand in it.
550. Percy (Thomas): Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, together with some few of later date. Edited, with a general Introduction, Additional Prefaces, Notes, Glossary, etc., by Henry B Wheatley. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lebas & Lowery, 1886. Volume III [only, of three]. 8vo, vii 423pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed and soiled).
551. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. London: J M Dent & Sons [1914-1916]. Complete in two volumes, both with double-page decorative titles. 12mo, xii 358 - x 440pp; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth (faded, soiled, rubbed). "Everyman's Library" edition (originally issued in 1906).
552. Pinon (Roger), and Vandereuse (Jules): La chanson de 'Saint Pansard'. Liege: Vaillant-Carmanne, 1968. 8vo, pp257- 312; printed wrappers. Extracted from Enquêtes du Musée de la Vie Wallone (Tome IX, nos105-108, 1962).
553. (Oversize) The Premier Song Book. A Collection of the most Popular Songs, with Accompaniments arranged by C Hutchins Lewis. London: J Curwen & Sons, ca1932. 4to, vii 61pp; wrappers. Includes 4pp of notes discussing the songs.
554. Ramsay (Allan): The Tea-Table Miscellany: or, A Collection of Choice Songs Scots & English. Edinburgh: A Donaldson & Eben. Wilson, 1760. Four volumes in one, with engraved portrait + decorative title. 8vo, xxii 448pp + [8] "Explanation of the Scots Words"; contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt lettering piece. "Twelfth edition" (first published 1724-1732). Another important early collection.
555. Ramsay (Allan): The Tea-Table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs Scots and English. Berwick: William Phorson, 1793. Four volumes bound in two. 12mo, xxiv 225 - [i] 228pp + [7] "Explanation of the Scots Words"; contemporary calf, spines gilt with morocco lettering & numbering pieces (rubbed). "New Edition" .
556. Reeves (James): The Idiom of the People. English Traditional Verse. Edited with an Introduction and Notes from the Manuscripts of Cecil J Sharp. London: Heinemann [1958]. Plates. 8vo, xii 244pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Publisher's order form laid in.
557. Ritson (Joseph), editor: Northern Garlands. The Bishopric Garland; or Durham Minstrel ... The Yorkshire Garland ... The Northumberland Garland; or Newcastle Nightingale ... The North-Country Chorister. London: R Triphook, 1810. 8vo, viii, iv 64 - 31 - [i] 94 - 16pp; contemporary leather-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered (rubbed, endpapers renewed). First collected edition (limited to 500 copies): the individual titles having appeared between 1784 and 1802. Each title is separately paginated with its own title-page (dated 1809). Ritson was an important early collector of ballad literature.
558. Ritson (Joseph), editor: A Select Collection of English Songs, with their original Airs: and a Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song ... London: F C & J Rivington [et al], 1813. Volume II [only], with a few woodcut headpieces & vignettes. 8vo, [iii] 384pp; contemporary 1/4 calf, spine gilt with lettering & numbering pieces (rubbed). Includes Drinking Songs, Miscellaneous Songs, and Ancient Ballads (pp229-384). "The Second Edition, with additional songs and occasional notes" by Thomas Parks.
559. Ritson (Joseph), editor: The Caledonian Muse: A Chronological Selection of Scotish Poetry from the Earliest Times. London: Joseph Johnson, 1821. Engraved headpieces & vignettes by Heather after designs by Stothard. 8vo, [iv] 232pp (foxing); early gilt-lettered cloth (spine ends rubbed). First edition. The body of his work was printed in 1785 but originally published here with a new title-page + note from the publisher.
560. Ritson (Joseph): Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Reign of King henry the Second to the Revolution. Collected by ... London: Payne & Foss, 1829. Two volumes. 8vo, [x] ciii 169[1] - [vii] 326pp + [2]ads untrimmed; later cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine labels. Splendidly annotated collection, originally published in the 1790s.
561. Robbins (Rossell Hope), editor: Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. Small 8vo, lv[iii] 331[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. Second edition (first published in 1952). Publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in.
562. (Oversize) Robbins (Rossell Hope), editor: Early English Christmas Carols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Illustrations by Alexander Dobkin. 4to, [vii] 87pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (edges a bit worn). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor to Peter & Iona Opie.
563. Roberts (John S): The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland. Compiled and Edited by ... London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1887. 8vo, xii 628pp (scattered light foxing); cloth (faded), with printed spine label (chipped). Issued in the "Chandos Classics" series.
564. Roberts (John S): The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland. Compiled and Edited by ... London: Frederick Warne & Co., ca1890s. 8vo, xi 628pp (scattered light foxing); gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). Reprint of the preceding work..
565. Rollins (Hyder E): An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries (1557-1709) in the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London. Foreword by Leslie Shepard. Hatboro: Tradition Press, 1967. Large 8vo, xv[ii] 324pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). Reprint of the 1924 first edition.
566. Ross (Iain), editor: The Gude and Godlie Ballatis. [Edinburgh:] The Saltire Society by Oliver & Boyd [1939]. Small 8vo, 70[1]pp; lettered cloth. 16th Century Scottish religious verse, often based on popular songs.
567. Ross (J), editor: The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern. With Memoirs of the Authors. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1882. Two volumes. 8vo, viii 384 - vii 376pp (hinges cracked); cloth (rubbed), printed spine labels (a bit worn).
568. (Oversize) Russian Songs. Collection of Most Popular Russian Folk Songs, Love Songs and Gypsy Romances Arranged for Voice and Piano. Compiled and Edited by Henry Lefkowitch. New York: Metro Music [1936]. 4to, [5-]90pp; printed wrappers (rubbed, dusty). Music with verse in Russian (with pronunciation guide), plus Explanatory Notes.
(Bound with 611) Sandys (William): Festive Songs, principally of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; with an Introduction by William Sandys. London: Percy Society, 1848. 8vo, lxi[ii] 103pp; early 1/2 calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering piece (considerable rubbing, label a bit chipped). Signed on fly-leaf by binder S C Cockerell, Dec 6, 1898. Rare Percy Society tract. Bound with two other Percy Society publications: Wright's Songs and Carols (1847) and Halliwell's Descriptive Notices of Popular English Histories (1848).
570. Sargent (Helen Child), and Kittredge (George Lyman): English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Edited from the Collection of Francis James Child. London: David Nutt, 1905. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xxxi 729pp + [32] ads (top edges gilt); gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition.
571. [Sargent (Helen Child), and Kittredge (George Lyman)]: English and Scottish Popular Ballads. London: George G Harrap, ca1940s. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xxxi 729[1]pp; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth. "Student's Cambridge Edition". Signed in ink on the fly-leaf "Peter Opie Alton, 1950". Further annotated by him on last contents page, and with inserted typed leaf at pp4/5 ("The False Knight No3") with holograph additions.
572. Schelling (Felix E): A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics. Selected and edited by ... Boston: Ginn [1913]. 8vo, [v] lxix 327pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled, extremities rubbed). Originally published in 1895, here issued in the "Athenaeum Press Series".
573. Scholes (Percy A): God Save the Queen! The History and Romance of the World's First National Anthem. London: Oxford University Press, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1954. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, xviii 328pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (soiled). First edition.
574. Scholes (Percy A): The Oxford Companion to Music. Edited by John Owen Ward. London: Oxford University Press [1975]. Frontispiece + numerous plates. Large 8vo, lx 1189pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. With publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in. Encyclopedic treatment of music including the "Ballad" (pp71-75) and "Folk Song" (pp365-368).
575. Scotland Calling in 50 Scottish Songs. Glasgow: Mozart Allan, ca1950s. 16mo, 62[1]pp; plain wrappers.
576. Scott (Walter): The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. With his Introduction, Additions, and Notes. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1887. Four volumes bound in two, with two engraved frontispiece + two pictorial title-pages (foxed). 8vo, [ii] viii 428 - 360 - [ii] v 348 - 388pp; leather-backed cloth boards, spines gilt-lettered (spines very badly worn). Sir Walter's Scott's classic collection of Scottish ballads, originally published in 1802-1803.
577. Seventy Years of Song. Edited by J B Booth. Foreword by Max Beerbohm. London: Hutchinson, ca1941. Plates. 12mo, [ii]ads, [ii] 80pp + [8]ads; pictorial wrappers (spine a bit worn, dusty). Includes articles on "Vox Populi", "Some Pantomime Songs", "War Songs", "The Ballad in our Day", &c. Apparently done to aid the War Services Fund.
578. Shanties. Collected by George Marston. Tunes set down by Doris Allen. Petersfield: Horace Horsnell & Harry Roberts, 1921. Small 8vo, [ii] 14pp untrimmed; decorative wrappers with printed cover label. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. Sailors' songs, in an attractively printed (and probably limited) edition.
579. Sharp (Cecil J): English Folk-Songs. Some Conclusions. London: Simpkin & Co., Ltd, 1907. 4to, xvi 143pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded, rubbed, spine ends frayed). First edition. Presentation copy of this landmark work inscribed: "W Warner from Cecil J Sharp. Oct-1907".
580. Sharp (Cecil J): English Folk Songs. Some Conclusions. Prepared by Maud Karpeles with an appreciation of Cecil Sharp by Ralph Vaughn Williams. London: Mercury Books [1965]. 8vo, xxv 199pp; pictorial wrappers. Fourth edition (first published in 1907), but first printing edited by Karpeles and with Williams' appreciation.
581. Sharp (Cecil J): A Book of British Song for Home and School. Edited and arranged by ... London: John Murray, 1909. 8vo, viii 141[2]pp; cloth-backed boards (faded, owner's name on cover). Third printing.
582. (Oversize) (Sheet Music) Album of 31 separate volumes of sheet music. London: various publishers, ca1860s. Most pieces with their own decorative title-pages, three with handsome lithographed pictorial titles. Folio, chiefly 6 to 20pp(various tears & repairs, one leaf torn in two pieces but both present); contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards (quite rubbed, lower joint starting). Collection of popular drawing-room ballads including "Fairy Music for Fairy Fingers", "The Cuckoo Quadrille", "Minstrel Melodies", &c. Opie pencil note on fly-leaf: "I[ona] P[eter] O[pie] Bound Sheet Music. Vol II".
583. (Oversize) (Sheet Music) Album of 20 separate volumes of sheet music (plus two defective pieces). London: various publishers, ca1850s-60s. Eleven pieces have handsome lithographed pictorial titles (five in full color); most of the others with their own decorative title-pages,. Folio, chiefly 6 to 20pp(various tears, repairs, soiling); contemporary cloth (quite worn and soiled). Collection of popular drawing-room ballads and related songs including "Chant du Paysan", "Ah! Vous dirai-je maman", "The Celebrated Marseillaise Hymn", &c. Opie pencil note on fly-leaf: "I[ona] P[eter] O[pie] Bound Sheet Music. Vol VI".
584. (Oversize) (Sheet Music) Album of 48 separate volumes of sheet music. London: various publishers, ca1820s. Most pieces with their own decorative title-pages (one with handsome engraved title vignette). Folio, chiefly 6 to 12pp(various tears); contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards, spine gilt (quite rubbed). Collection of popular drawing-room ballads including "God Save the King", "Caller Herring, A Favorite Scotch Air", "O My Love's Like the Red Rose", "Oh! Say Not Woman's Heart Is Bought, A Favorite Ballade", "A Highland Lad My Love Was Born", &c. Endpapers with owner's 1825 inscription and manuscript Index. Opie pencil note on fly-leaf: "I[ona] P[ether] O[pie] Bound Sheet Music. Vol X".
585. (Oversize) (Sheet Music) Album of 27 separate volumes of sheet music. London: various publishers, ca1850s. Each piece with its own decorative title-page, two with handsome lithographed pictorial titles. Folio, chiefly 6 to 20pp(various tears & repairs); contemporary 1/2 leather over decorative boards, spine gilt (quite worn, joint starting), with gilt-lettered label on cover ("Fanny L Brock"). Collection of popular drawing-room ballads including "The Melodies of Many Lands", "The Parting, or Poor Bessy Was a Sailor's Wife", "The Child and the Dew-Drops, Ballad", &c, as well as a number of more classical pieces. Opie pencil note on fly-leaf: "I[ona] P[eter] O[pie] Bound Sheet Music. Vol XII".
586. Simpson (Claude M): The British Broadside Ballad and its Music. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press [1966]. 4to, xxxiii 922pp; lettered two-toned cloth, dust jacket (faded, corners chipped). ?First edition. Comprehensive.
587. Sixteen Songs for Sixpence. Foreword by George Lansbury. [London:] Lansbury's Labour Weekly, ca1930s. 4to, 16pp; pictorial wrappers. Includes "The International", "The Red Flag", "March-Song of the Red Army", &c.
588. Skinner (John): Amusements of Leisure Hours: or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. To which is prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life, with some Remarks of Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh: printed by John Moir, and sold by Stuart Cheyne and Alexander Brown, 1809.144pp (inner hinges cracked); later plain cloth (rubbed). ?First edition.
589. The Songster's Multum in Parvo; or New Two-Penny Touch, for the Lovers of Harmony: Embracing all the Popular New Songs, Singing at the Theatres Royals, Minor Places of Amusement, &c. London: John Fairburn, 11 Feb1809 - 29 April 1809. Volume II only, comprising Numbers 13 to 24, with frontispiece, pictorial general title + engraved plates. 16mo, [ii] 134pp + [12] Indexes; contemporary calf, morocco lettering piece (quite rubbed). Twelve weekly numbers.
590. Spanish Folk Songs. Selected and Translated with an Introduction by S de Madariaga. London: Constable & Co. [1922]. Small 12mo, [v-]xxiii 58[1]pp; decorative boards, decorative dust jacket. First edition.
591. Stevens (Denis), editor: A History of Song. [London:] Radius Book/ Hutchinson [1971]. Large 8vo, 491pp; pictorial wrappers. Originally published in 1960.
592. Stewart (Bob): Where is Saint George? Pagan Imagery in English Folksong. [Bradford-on-Avon:] Moonraker Press [1977]. 8vo, [v] 138pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip requesting a review.
593. Strangeways (A H Fox): Cecil Sharp. In collaboration with Maud Karpeles. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1933. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, xii 233[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition. Biography of this important early folk song collector.
594. Symonds (John Addington): Wine, Women, and Song: Medieval Latin Students' Songs Now First Translated into English Verse with and Essay by ... London: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Frontispiece + 5 plates (included in pagination). 8vo, xi[i] 180pp; gilt-lettered and -pictorial cloth (faded). First issued in 1884.
595. Thornton (Robert D): "Robert Burns and Scottish Folksong" [in] Scots Chronicle 1951. Kilmarnock: Burns Federation [1951]. 8vo, pp62-68; printed wrappers.
596. The Thrush. A Collection of Six Hundred Twenty Six of the most Celebrated English and Scotch Songs. None of which are contained in the other Collections of the same Size call'd the Linnet and Robin. London: C Hitch & L Osborn, 1749. Engraved frontispiece + title-page. 12mo, 432pp but lacking pp17-20, 161-164, 203-204; contemporary calf (worn), rebacked in matching gilt leather. Bookplate. Opie pencil notes on endpapers noting missing pages. With slip laid in bearing Opie holograph list (pencil & ink) of page citations.
597. Tongue (Ruth L): The Chime Child or Somerset Singers. Being an account of some of them and their songs collected over sixty years. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1968]. 8vo, x 102pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in. Also British Book News slip requesting a review.
598. Tradition. Vol 1, 1966. London: University College London Union Folk Song Society, 1966. Illustrations. 4to, [2-]50pp; pictorial wrappers. The first issue of this magazine devoted to folk songs, with articles on "The Revival of the Broadsheet", "The Street Songs of Glasgow", &c.
599. Turner (Michael R): The Parlour Song Book. A Casquet of Vocal Gems. Edited and Introduced by ... The music edited by Antony Miall. [London:] Michael Joseph [1972]. Illustrations. 4to, x 374pp; gilt-lettered cloth (lower spine crudely repaired), color pictorial dust jacket (lower spine repaired). First edition.
600. The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth: forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language: with a copious and classified Index. London: Jones & Co., 1828. Three volumes, with frontispiece in 1st volume and elaborate etched pictorial titles in vols I and III (as well as printed titles), generic wood-engraved title in vol II (but no printed title), all designed by George Cruikshank, as well as additional wood-engraved text illustrations by him. 8vo, [iii-]xiv 448 - [v-]xvi 448 - [iii-]xvi 448pp (scattered foxing, some prelims with marginal tears); early gilt-lettered pebbled cloth. List of penciled citations (?Opie) on fly-leaf in first volume; also Opie pencil note on endpaper "Bound up from the original parts".
601. Vaughan Williams (R): Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. A Cantata for Women's Voices. London: Oxford University Press, ca1950. 4to, [ii] 81pp; printed wrappers. Housed in later mailing envelope to which is mounted a typed description indicating which traditional folk songs are incorporated.
602. The Vocal Magazine; or, British Songster's Miscellany. Containing all the English, Scotch, and Irish Songs, Catches, Cantatas, Airs, Glees, Ballads, &c., deemed any way worthy of being transmitted to posterity. Volume the First. London: printed by J Harrison, for J Bew, 1778. Volume one [only] comprising 9 Numbers, with engraved frontispiece + numerous engraved plates showing famous actors. 8vo, 348pp + [11] Index; contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt-lettered morocco lettering piece (joints starting , head of spine nicked). A handsome collection.
603. Vrabie (Gheorghe): Balada Populara Romana. [Bucharest:] Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 1966. Folding charts + maps. 8vo, 546[2]pp + errata slip; gilt-lettered pictorial cloth. Romanian folk ballads.
604. Ward-Jackson (C H): Airman's Song Book. Being an Anthology of Squadron, Concert Party, Training and Camp Songs and Song-Parodies, written by & for Officers, Airmen and Airwomen mainly of the Royal Air Force, its Auxiliaries & its Predecessors, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Collected, Edited and with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by ... Music by Leighton Lucas. London: Sylvan Press [1945]. Illustrations by Biro. 8vo, xiv 190pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded), pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Opie pencil note on endpaper. Also, sheet with related Opie holograph verse laid in.
605. Wesley (John), Rev: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists. With a New Supplement. Edition with Tunes. London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1877. 8vo, xii 462[6]pp + xxviii Index (shaken); blind-stamped lettered cloth.
606. Why Was He Born So Beautiful and Other Rugby Songs. With a Preface by Michael Green. London: Sphere Books [1969]. 12mo, 187pp + [4]ads; color pictorial wrappers.
607. Williams (Alfred): Folk Songs of the Upper Thames. With an Essay on Folk-Song Activity in the Upper Thames Neighbourhood. Collected and edited by ... London: Duckworth & Co [1923]. 8vo, 306pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
608. Witt (Hugh de): Bawdy Barrack-room Ballads. London: Tandem [[1970]. 12mo, 160pp; color pictorial wrappers. First edition.
609. Words of the Songs in Mr Wilson's Entertainment of the Songs of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by John Greg, ca1840. 12mo, 19pp (foxed) self-wrappers (front with 1846 gift inscription). Combination program and texts of the songs. Bound with five related song collections: Book of Words of Mr Charles Stanton's Entertainment, Songs of Scotland. London: [Marylebone Mercury] ca1870s. Small 8vo, 23pp self-wrappers * Christy's One Hundred Negro and American Songs: Words and Music. London: Musical Bouquet Office, 1857. 8vo, 64pp self-wrappers * Davidson's Musical Miracles. 120 Comic Songs Sung by Sam Cowell, Music and Words, for a Shilling. London: Davidson, ca1870s. 8vo, 80pp self-wrappers * Davidson's Musical Miracles. One Hundred and Fifty Scotch Songs, Music and Words, for a Shilling. London: Davidson, ca1870s. 8vo, 80pp self-wrappers * Davidson's Universal Melodist [London: Davidson, ca1870s]. 8vo, 80pp self-wrappers. Also with a portion of another song collection, pp193-272 only (with not imprint or title). Bound together in one volume, 19th century cloth, spine with gilt lettering piece ("Songs").
610. (Oversize) The World's Favourite Songs. London: George Newnes, ca1930s. 4to, 32pp; decorative wrappers (edges rubbed). Sheet music of 10 popular songs including pieces from Beethoven and Mendelssohn, as well as "The Vicar of Bray", an old English Air arranged by Alfred Moffat..
611. Wright (Thomas), editor: Songs and Carols, Now First Printed, from a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. London: printed for the Percy Society, 1847. 8vo, vii 107pp (scattered light foxing); early 1/2 calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering piece (considerable rubbing, label a bit chipped). Signed on fly-leaf by binder S C Cockerell, Dec 6, 1898. Rare Percy Society tract. Bound with two other Percy Society publications: Sandys's Festive Songs (1848) and Halliwell's Descriptive Notices of Popular English Histories (1848).

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612. Abstracts of Folklore Studies, Volume IV, Number 1 - Volume X, Number 4. [Austin:] University of Texas Press, for the American Folklore Society, Spring, 1966 - Winter, 1972. Together, 27 separate issues (lacking Vol V, Number4) + cumulative index for Volume IX. 8vo, printed wrappers. Abstracts for hundreds of folklore studies from around the world plus reviews of related books and records.
613. Adamas (H C): Oriental Text Book and Language of Flowers. London: Dean & Son, ca1850s. With pictorial title + color-printed floral borders on every page. Square 12mo, [iv] 110pp; decorative cloth (rubbed). A strange dictionary of floral symbolism, all in verse.
614. Animals in Folklore. Edited by J R Porter and W M S Russell. [Ipswich:] D S Bewer, and Rowman & Littlefield, for The Folklore Society, 1978. Mounted color frontispiece + text illustrations. 8vo, [vii] 292pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Interesting collection of essay including "The Role of Animals in Witchcraft & Popular Magic" by Kathryn C Smith, "The Snake Woman in Japanese Myth and Legend" by Carmen Blacker, "The Social Biology of Werewolves" by W M S & Claire Russell, &c.
615. Aubrey (John): Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme. Edited and Annotated by James Britten. London: published for the Folk-Lore Society by W Satchell, Peyton & Co., 1881. 8vo, [iii] vii 273pp (general title detached); gilt-lettered decorative cloth (rubbed). First edition. The first complete printing of this 17th manuscript, and an early production of the Folk-Lore Society.
616. (Auction catalogue) Phillips, Son & Neale: Catalogue of the Library of Books relating to Egyptology, Folk-Lore Magic and Ritual. The property of the late Dr Margaret Murray ... Tuesday, February 11th, 1964. London, 1964. 8vo, 15[1]pp; printed wrappers (lightly spotted).
617. (Auction catalogue) Sotheby & Co: The Library of Thomas Percy 1729-1811, Bishop of Dromore, Editor of The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ... Monday, 23rd June, 1969. London, 1969. 8vo, [vi] 72pp + errata leaf; printed wrappers.
618. Baker (Margaret): Discovering the Folklore of Plants. Tring: Shire Publications, ca1969. Illustrations. 12mo, 72pp (partly disbound); pictorial wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by Mrs Opie.
619. Bartlett (Robert): Trial by Fire and Water. The Medieval Judicial Ordeal. Oxford: Clarendon Press [1988]. Three text maps. 8vo, [x] 182pp; pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition.
620. Baring Gould (S): Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London: Rivington, 1874. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, x 660pp (shaken); gilt-lettered decorative cloth (rubbed, head of spine worn). Relates the legends of the Wandering Jew, William Tell, Pope Joan, St George, the Piper of Hamelin, Melusina, &c.
621. Baring Gould (S): Historic Oddities and Strange Events. London: Methuen & Co., 1891. 8vo, viii 323[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (lightly soiled). Third edition.
622. Baring Gould (S): Strange Survivals. Some Chapters in the History of Man. London: Methuen [1905]. Frontispiece + text illustrations. 8vo, [v] 287pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). Third printing.
623. Baring Gould (S): A Book of Folk-Lore. London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, ca1910. Frontispiece portrait + decorative title. 12mo, 264pp gilt-lettered decorative cloth. General survey by this noted polymath.
624. Bourke (John): Scatalogic Rites of all Nations. A Dissertation upon the Employment of Excrementitious Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Philters, etc., in all Parts of the Globe. Washington, DC: W H Lowdermilk, 1891. Large 8vo, x 496pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (rear cover stained). First edition ("Not for General Perusal"). The author was a Captain in the Third Cavalry.
625. Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities: including the whole of Mr Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to every Chapter of that Work: as also, an Appendix, containing such Articles on the Subject, as have been omitted by that Author. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by T Saint, for J Johnson, London, 1777. Copper-engraved title vignette by R Beilby. 8vo, xix 430pp + [2]errata; contemporary calf (worn, cover detached). Bookplate. First edition. In this great folklore landmark, Brand stressed the importance of the oral tradition in preserving the superstitions and beliefs of the common people. This work is itself a storehouse of such folkloric details: holiday customs, marriage & death customs, games, fairy mythology, witchcraft, omens, &c., &c.. Bourne's work was first published in 1725 (and its original title-page is reproduced here).
626. Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities: including the whole of Mr Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to every Chapter of that Work: as also, an Appendix, containing such Articles on the Subject, as have been omitted by that Author. London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, James Cundee, and W Baynes, 1810. Copper-engraved title vignette. 8vo, xxiv 471[1]pp (tears in plate impression from title vignette); contemporary calf (rebacked, edges & joints worn), morocco lettering piece.
627. (Oversize) Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities: chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Arranged and Revised, with Additions, by Henry Ellis. London: F C & J Rivington, et al, 1813. Two volumes. Large 4to, xxvi 486 - xi 731pp untrimmed; paper-cover boards (rather worn, spine ends chipped, joints cracked), printed paper spine labels. Bookplates. First Ellis edition of Brand's great work, large-paper copy in its original state and complete with half-titles. Pencil notes on front endpapers indicating this set is from the library of the poet Robert Southey.
628. (Oversize) Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities: chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Arranged and Revised, with Additions, by Henry Ellis. London: F C & J Rivington, et al, 1813. Two volumes. Large 4to, [iii-]xxvi 486 - [iii-]xi 731pp lacking half-tiles, error in binding with both titles in first volume; early leather-backed boards (worn, spine badly chipped, covers detached). Bookplates. First Ellis edition of Brand's great work, large-paper copy.
629. Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities: chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Arranged, Revised, greatly Enlarged for this edition, by Henry Ellis. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1841-1842. Three volumes, with plates. 8vo, xx 296 - iv 297[1] - iv 288pp untrimmed (prelims in 1st volume foxed); decoratively blind-stamped cloth, spines richly gilt (spines chipped, that of volume one quite worn with covers detached). First edition thus: "Whatever of importance has occurred to the Editor in augmentation of the Work since the publication of the last edition has been added to the present".
630. Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. Arranged , Revised, and greatly Enlarged, by Henry Ellis. London: Henry G Bohn, 1849. Complete in three volumes, each with engraved frontispiece. 8vo, xviii 539 - v 522 - iv 499pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, spines chipped). "New Edition, with further Additions": 1st printing as part of "Bohn's Antiquarian Library".
631. Brand (John): Observations on Popular Antiquities: chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. With the Additions of Sir Henry Ellis. London: Chatto & Windus, 1900. 8vo, [v-]xvi 807pp + 32 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. Opie pencil note on title-page indicating this edition was first produced in 1877 and was the one used by Northall (English Folk-Rhymes).
632. Brooke (F A): The Science of Social Development: A Study in Anthropology. London: Watts & Co [1936]. Portrait frontispiece, text illustrations, diagrams + folding map. 8vo, xiv 337pp (hinges strengthened, scattered foxing); printed wrappers (rubbed and soiled). First edition.;
633. Burne (Charlotte Sophia): The Handbook of Folklore. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. With an addition by Sona Rosa Burstein. London: Folk-Lore Society, 1914 [but 1957]. 8vo, [ii]x 364pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. Reprint of this 1914 classic handbook.
634. Burstein (Sona Rosa): George Laurence Gomme and the Science of Folklore. Offprint from Folk-Lore, Volume LXVIII, June 1957. One plate. 8vo, pp[321-]338; printed wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed to Peter Opie and signed with the author's initials (also stamped "With the Author's Compliments"). Together with a TLS from the author to Peter Opie, 18 August 1957.
635. Clodd (Edward): The Childhood of the World. A Simple Account of Man's Origin and Early History. New York: Macmillan, 1914. Occasional text illustrations. 8vo, xiii 240[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine end rubbed). "New edition, rewritten and enlarged" (first edition 1872).
636. Cohen (Daniel): The Body Snatchers. London: J M Dent [1977]. Illustrations. 8vo, 159pp; pictorial boards. First British edition (originally published in the US in 1974). Part of the "Weird & Horrible Library". Describes the history of grave robbing, for medical, political, financial and magical motives.
637. Cox (Marian Roalfe): An Introduction to Folk-Lore. London: David Nutt, 1895. 8vo, xv 319[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine soiled). First edition. Includes chapters on Animal Ancestors, Magic, and Myths & Folk-Tales.
638. Crawley (Ernest): Oath, Curse, and Blessing and other Studies in Origins. Edited by Theodore Besterman. London: Watts & Co. [1934]. 12mo, vii 152pp; pictorial cloth. First "Thinker's Library" edition.
639. Davidson (H R Ellis): Katharine Briggs: The Growth of a Folklorist. London: Folklore Society, 1984. 8vo, 20pp; printed wrappers. The Katharine Briggs Lecture No.3 delivered 1 November 1983 to the Folklore Society at University College London.
640. Davidson (H R Ellis): Katharine Briggs: Story-Teller. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press [1986]. Text illustrations. 8vo, [xiii] 209pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Includes a list of this great folklorist's published works (pp200-204).
641. Dexter (T F G): The Pagan Origin of Fairs. Treberran: New Knowledge Press, ca193s. Text illustrations. 8vo, 39[1]pp; printed wrappers.
642. D'Israeli (I): Curiosities of Literature. London: George Routledge & Sons, ca1850s. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, xv[i] 582pp + [10]ads; lettered decorative cloth (spotted). "New Edition, in One Volume". A fascinating collection of obscure anecdotes and facts, such as "Trials in Superstitious Ages", "Relics of Saints", "Feudal Customs", "Alchymy", "Salutations of Various nations", &c., &c.
643. Dorson (Richard M), editor: Peasant Customs and Savage Myths. Selections from the British Folklorists. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1968]. Complete in two volumes. Tall 8vo, x 402 - [v] [403-]751pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jackets. First edition. Review copy with publisher's with compliments slip (also British Book News slip requesting a review). Excerpts from the great British folklorists: Grose, Brand, Keightley, Lang, Gomme, &c.
644. Edmonson (Munro S): Lore. An Introduction to the Science of Folklore and Literature. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston [1971]. 8vo, xv[ii] 456pp; lettered cloth. First edition. With Clarendon Press with compliments slip addressed to Mr & Mrs Opie, dated 27 January 1972.
645. Eichler (Lilian): The Customs of Mankind. London: Heinemann, 1924. Numerous plates (including several in color). 8vo, xvii[iii] 753pp; (shaken); gilt-lettered cloth. First British edition. Comprehensive.
646. Elsworthy (Frederick Thomas): Horns of Honour and other Studies in the By-ways of Archaeology. London: John Murray, 1900. Colored frontispiece + numerous text illustrations. 8vo, xii 315[1]pp; gilt-pictorial cloth (soiled). First edition.
647. Evans (E P): The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. London: William Heinemann, 1906. Frontispiece + title vignette. 8vo, x 384pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded). First edition. A bizarre work, dealing with homicidal bees, witchcraft, the criminal prosecution of rats, werewolves, &c.
648. Evans (George Ewart): Where Beards Wag All. The Relevance of the Oral Tradition. London: Faber & Faber [1970].Photographic plates + text illustrations by David Gentleman. 8vo, 296pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Shows importance of oral history.
649. Evans (George Ewart), and Thomson (David): The Leaping Hare. London: Faber & Faber [1972]. Plates. 8vo, 262pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The lore of the rabbit, ancient and modern.
650. Evans (Joan): English Posies and Posy Rings. A Catalogue with an introduction. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1931. 8vo, xxxi[i] 114[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded). First edition. Superb catalogue of inscriptions found on rings (magical, philosophical, sentimental, &c), by the daughter of the author of the following item.
651. Evans (John): Posy-Rings. A Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution of Great Britain March 25, 1892. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1892. 8vo, 30[1]pp; printed wrappers (lightly soiled, small gash in margin also affecting several inner margins). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "Clara Oakley with the Author's love". Preserved in blank envelope captioned by the Opies.
The Folk-Lore Journal. Vol I, Part[s] II * IV * VI; Vol II, Part[s] I-IV * VI-XII; Vol III, Part I-IV; Vol IV, Part I-IV; Vol V; Vol VII. London: published for the Folk-Lore Society, by Elliot Stock, February 1883 - December 1889. Together, 22 separate parts as issued in printed wrappers plus Vols V + VII bound as yearly issue without wrappers or individual parts titles. 8vo, (Vol II, Part II lacking pp49-64); printed wrappers (various degrees of wear and soiling) and original gilt-lettered cloth (Vol VII with cover detached, spine faded). Superb run of this ground-breaking scholarly periodical, which ran only from 1883 to 1889 before incorporating into the Folk-Lore quarterly (see following). Present are complete Volumes III, IV, V and VII as well as all but one Part of Vol II. Also with a duplicate of Vol VII, Part V in the separate wrappered issue. Very rare, especially in their individual Parts as issued.
Lilly Library GR1 .F45
651a. Folk-Lore Journal. September 1896. OFFPRINT. Fairy Tales from inedited Hebrew MSS. of the Ninth and Twelfth Centuries. By M. Gaster. p. [217]-250.
651b. Folk-Lore Journal. September 1902. OFFPRINT. Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore. By Percy Manning. p. 288-[296].
651c. Folk-Lore Journal. March 1903. OFFPRINT. Collectanea. p. [61]-86.
651d. Folk-Lore Journal. June 1903. OFFPRINT. Collectanea. p. [167]-180.
651e. Folk-Lore Journal. September 1903. OFFPRINT. Greek Votive Offerings. By Arthur Bernard Cook. p. 259-[292].
651f. Folk-Lore Journal. March 1913. OFFPRINT. Reviews. p. 123-152.
Folk-Lore. A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, and Custom. Vol I, No. 1; Vol VI [complete in publisher's cloth]; Vol VII, No. 3; Vol X, No. 1; Vol XIII, No. 3; Vol XIV, No[s] 1 * 2 * 3; Vol XV-XXIII [complete in contemporary cloth]; Vol XXIV, No. 1; Vol XXVI-86, No[s] 1-4 [lacking only Vol XXXI, No.3]; Vol 87-104, I [and] ii; Vol 105-110. London: David Nutt; Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd [Vols XXVI-XXXI]; William Glaisher, Ltd, [Vol XXXII-86], March 1890 - 1999. Together, 304 volumes (chiefly separate numbers as issued). 8vo, original printed wrappers (various wear and soiling but overall quite good) except as noted above; with fifteen publisher's cloth folders present to protect four or eight numbers each. A number of the individual numbers ink-stamped "Folklore Society London". An incredible run of this essential folklore periodical, comprising the official publication of the transactions of the Folk-Lore Society . This periodical began as The Folk-Lore Journal (see preceding item), becoming Folk-Lore in March 1890 when it incorporated The Archaeological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal. Present here is the rare first issue of the new journal complete in its original wrappers, as well as every individual number (except one, noted above) from March 1915 to 1999. The title of this journal changed somewhat over the years: from Vols VI to XLIII "Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society" was incorporated into the sub-title; from Vols XLIV to 68 the sub-title became "Being the Quarterly Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society"; and from Vols 69 to 110 it becomes simply "Folklore" [with no hyphen]. It remained a quarterly until Vol 86 (though Vols LXV and 86 were issued in three numbers); from Vols 87 to 104 it was published as two yearly numbers (though Vol 104 combines the two); from Vols 105 to 110 as a single yearly number. This journal is the mother-load of folkloric material, comprising hundreds of scholarly articles, as well as minutes to Folk-Lore Society meetings, Reports and Addresses to the Society, correspondence, reviews, &c. With Folk-Lore Society 16mo booklet and membership form in their original envelope with explanatory card asking members to use these to enroll new members , together with card listing lectures for 1949-1950 (London, ca1949).
Lilly Library GR1 .F5
652. (Folklore ) Bonser (Wilfrid): A Bibliography of Folklore as Contained in the First Eighty Years of the Publications of the Folklore Society. London: published for the Folk-Lore Society by William Glaisher, 1961. 8vo, xv 126pp; original decorative cloth, spine gilt-lettered (a fine copy). First edition. Signed by the author on title-page (with Opie pencil note on endpaper indicating book was signed on publication, March 1962). An essential reference.
653. The Folk-Lore Record. Vol IV. London: printed for the Folk-Lore Society, by Nichols & Sons, 1881. 8vo, [iii] 239pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. Contains an article on Celtic folklore by Alfred Nutt, as well as articles on Slavonic, Chinese, American, Irish and Indian folklore, together with Queries, Notices, News, &c.
654. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. New York: Funk & Wagnall [1949-1950]. Complete in two volumes. 4to, x[ii] 531 - [vi] [533-]1196pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jackets. First editions. Encyclopedic. With one page of Opie ink citations laid in.
655. Gales (R L): Studies in Arcady and other Essays from a Country Parsonage. Vol1 [of two]. London: Simpkin Marshall [1910]. 8vo, 447[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (cocked, quite rubbed). Interesting group of short essays many of which had first appeared in English periodicals. Subjects include "The Literature of the People", "The Devil in Christian Legend and Tradition", "Christian Dogma and Folk-Lore", "On Nursery Rhymes", "The Destruction of Dialect", &c. Opie pencil notes on title giving the date and indicating they did not own volume two.
656. Goldstein (Kenneth S): A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore. Preface by Hamish Henderson. Hatsboro: Folklore Associates, Inc, for The American Folklore Society, 1964. 8vo, xviii[I] 199[2]pp; wrappers. Practical handbook, being Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, Volume 52.
657. Gomme (George Laurence), editor: The Handbook of Folklore. London: published for The Folklore Society, by David Nutt, 1890. Folding chart. 12mo, vii 193pp + [3]ff forms; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. First edition. Signed on the fly-leaf by Peter Opie and dated August 1953.
658. Haddon (Alfred C): The Study of Man. London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. Plates + text illustration. 8vo, xxxi 512pp; pictorial blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition. Part of "The Progressive Science Series". With ALS from the author to "Bellard" (2 July '92) discussing anthropological matters (with small drawing).
659. Halliday (W R): Folklore Studies. Ancient and Modern. London: Methuen [1924]. 8vo, xix 172pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition. Essays on the gypsies of Turkey, Byzantine and modern Greek Carols, snake-stones, as well as a chapter on childhood in ancient Greece "Singing Games and Seasonal Songs in Ancient Greece" .
660. Hand (Wayland D): Boundaries, Portals, and Other Magical Spots in Folklore. London: Folklore Society, 1983. 8vo, 15pp; printed wrappers. The Katharine Briggs Lecture No.2 delivered 2 November 1982 to the Folklore Society at University College London.
660A. Hand, Wayland D. North American Folklore Societies ... Offprint of the Journal of Amerian Folklore v.82, no.323.
661. [Home (Henry), Lord Kames:] Sketches of the History of Man. Edinburgh: William Creech, A Strahan and T Cadell, London, 1788. Volume II and III only (of four). 8vo, [v] 467 - [v] 432pp; contemporary tree calf (worn), morocco lettering pieces. Second edition (first published 1774) "considerably enlarged by the last additions and corrections". Opie note on endpaper identifying the author.
662. Howey (M Oldfield): The Horse in Magic and Myth. London: William Rider & Son, 1923. With colored frontispiece, plates + text illustrations (many by the author). 4to, xii 238pp; lettered pictorial cloth, dust jacket (chipped). First edition.
663. Jenkins (Geraint), editor: Studies in Folk Life. Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C Peate. [London:] Routledge & Kegan Paul [1969]. Plates + text illustrations. Large 8vo, xvii 344pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Group of 20 scholarly essays. With British Book News slip requesting a review.
664. Jones (William): Finger-Ring Lore. Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal. London: Chatto & Windus, 1877. Text illustrations. 8vo, xvi 545[2]pp + 32 ads; gilt-pictorial cloth (spine faded). First edition.
665. Jones (William): Credulities Past and Present including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. Frontispiece. 8vo, xii560pp + 32 ads; gilt-lettered decorative cloth (quite rubbed). First edition.
Journal of American Folklore. Vol 74, No 291 - Vol 93, No 369. [Montpelier, Vermont, then, Washington, DC: American Folklore Society] January 1961- July 1980. Together, 77 separate issues (lacking only Vol 84, No 334 and Vol 88, No 347). 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Substantial run of this important quarterly of folklore studies, containing articles, notes & queries, obituaries, folklore texts, book reviews, etc. Together with seven Journal of American Folklore Supplement[s] for 1962-1964, 1969 (two), 1974, and 1975.
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666. Journal of American Folklore, An Analytical Index to the ... Vols 1-70 by Tristram P Coffin. Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1958. 8vo, wrappers.
667. Journal of Popular Culture. Volume 1, No 1. [Bowling Green: Modern Language Association of America] Summer, 1967. 8vo, 77pp; decorative wrappers. Contains articles on Nigerian chapbooks, New York graffiti, the Cowboy myth, &c.
668. King (Edmund Fillingham): Ten Thousand Wonderful Things comprising whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious Eccentric and Extraordinary in all Ages and Nations. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1889. Profusely illustrated with wood-engravings. 8vo, xvi 684pp + [4]ads (prelims foxed); gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). An incredible compilation of strange facts and folklore.
669. Krappe (Alexander Haggerty): The Science of Folk-Lore. London: Methuen & Co [1930]. 8vo, xxi[ii] 344pp + 8 ads (occasional foxing); gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Opie's pencil note on endpaper: "Moses Gaster's copy [signed on fly-leaf] ... This copy was the gift of the author and includes a slip to this effect" [no longer present].
670. Lambeth (M): Discovering Corn Dollies. [Aylesbury:] Shire Publications [1974]. Illustrations by R C Lambeth. 12mo, 48pp; pictorial wrappers. Includes a chapter on the related legends and traditions.
671. Lang (Andrew): Custom and Myth. London: Longmans, Green, 1898. 8vo, xxv[ii] 312pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). "New Edition" (originally printed 1884). Perhaps Lang's most important folkloric contribution.
672. The Language of Flowers. London: Ernest Nister, ca1890s. With numerous chromo-lithographed illustrations of children embodying different flowers (printed by Nister at Nuremberg). 12mo, [18]ff; 1/2 leather, gilt-lettered boards (rubbed). The traditional symbolism of flowers, probably inspired by Kate Greenaway's work of the same title (1884).
673. Leach (Edmund): Lévi-Strauss. [London:] Fontana/Collins [1970]. 12mo, 127[1]pp; wrappers. Published in the "Modern Masters" series.
674. Letourneau (Charles), Dr: Sociology based upon Ethnography. Translated by Henry M Trollope. London: Chapman & Hall, 1881. 8vo, 3 xvi 608pp (separated from binding); lettered cloth (rubbed). Part of Chapman & Hall's "Library of Contemporary Science"
675. [Lupton (Thomas)]: A Thousand Notable Things, on Various Subjects; Disclosed from the Secrets of Nature and Art; practicable, profitable, and of great advantage; set down from long and curious study and experience, for the greater part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated authors of the Ancients and Moderns. London: T French & W Millar, 1799. Woodcut vignette on title. 12mo, [iv] 272pp; original leather-backed marbled boards (edges and joints worn), effaced spine label. Pocket edition of this popular text, originally published in 1579.
676. Moore (J Howard): Savage Survivals. The Story of the Race told in Simple Language. London: Watts & Co [1933]. Illustrations. 12mo, 143pp; decorative lettered cloth. First edition. No 36 in "The Thinker's Library (apparently for children). Describes the survival of per-historic human customs, &c.
676a. "Notes and Queries", Choice Notes from ... Folk Lore. London: Bell & Daldy, 1859. 12mo,vi 304pp + 24 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. A selection of folkloric notes from this important journal (begun in 1849).
677. Oldmeadow (Katherine): The Folklore of Herbs. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers , ca1950s. 12mo, [iv] 72pp; lettered cloth (rubbed).
678. Perspectives on Contemporary Legend. Volume[s] III * IV * V. Edited by Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith. [Sheffield: Sheffisld Academic Press [1988-1990]. Three volumes. 8vo, 243[4] -252 -164pp; printed wrappers. Series containing academic folkloric articles (e.g., "The Fast Food Ghost: A Study in the Supernatural's Capacity to Survive Secularization"). The separate volumes are entitled "Monsters with Teeth", "The Questing Beast" and "A Nest of Vipers".
679. Pliny: The Natural History of ... Translated with Copious Notes and Illustrations by John Bostock and H T Riley. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893-1898. Complete in 6 volumes. Small 8vo, gilt-lettered cloth. Issued as part of Bohn's Classical Library (first in the 1850s). Practical edition of this classic text by Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79), filled with much legendary material, hearsay, etc. Signed "Iona & Peter Opie, 27 April 1956" on fly-leaf.
680. Power (Eileen): Medieval People. London: Methuen & Co [1924]. Eight plates. 8vo, xii 216pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. A scholarly attempt to describe the lives and culture of six medieval figures including a Frankish peasant in the time of Charlemagne and a Paris housewife in the 14th century.
681. Pratt (Anne): Flowers and their Associations. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1840. With hand-colored engraved plates. 16mo, xii 409pp + [1]ads (front hinge cracked); gilt cloth (rubbed). A compendium of botany and folklore. With 1840 Prize inscription on fly-leaf (for good conduct).
682. Radclyffe (E J D): Magic and Mind. London: A & C Black, 1932. Illustrations by Pearl Binder. Small 8vo, 96pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. An attempt to explain the thinking of primitive man to young people, issued as part of the "How & Way Series" edited by Gerald Bullett.
683. Rath (Elfiede): "Folklore as an Academic Subject" [off-print from German Life and Letters, Vol V, no 2, Oxford, 1952]. 8vo, ff75-=84; plain wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "In remembrance of our talk on the subject!" (she has also identified the source of this article). Also with an ALS from the author to the Opies, 10 Dec 1951, discussing their nursery rhyme book. Rath's article is based on a paper read before the German Institute, University of London, on 15 February 1951.
684. Robinson (John): Ancient History; exhibiting the Rise, Progress, Revolutions, Decline and Fall, of the States and Nations of Antiquity. For the Use of Schools. London: printed by Richard Phillips, for John Souter, 1817. Folding map frontispiece + engraved plates. 12mo, iv 500pp; contemporary tree calf (worn, covers loose). "A New Edition, with Engravings".
685. Sanderson (Stewart F): The Modern Urban Legend. London: Folklore Society, 1984. 8vo, 15pp; printed wrappers. The Katharine Briggs Lecture No.1 delivered 3 November 1981 to the Folklore Society at University College London.
686. Sandford (Lettice), and Davis (Philla): Corn Dollies and How to Make Them. [Ipswitch:] The Herefordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, 1965. Illustrations. 8vo, 16pp; pictorial wrappers.
687. Scott (Sir Walter): The Letters of ... and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers 1821-45. With original memoranda of Sir Walter Scott. [Edinburgh:] W & R Chambers, 1904. Plates. 4to, 80pp (foxing); cloth with engraved spine label (rubbed). First edition. Letters between these great early folklorists.
688. Siller (Frederick Cameron), and Meyler (Ruth Mary): The Symbolic Pig. An anthology of Pigs in literature and art. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd [1961]. Colored frontispiece + numerous plates, also text illustrations by Oliver Holt. 4to, xx 193pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket.
689. Symbols of Power. Edited by H R Ellis Davidson. [Cambridge:] D S Brewer Ltd for the Folklore Society, 1977. 8vo, [x] 182pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. Seven papers given at a conference at the University of Lancaster in 1973, dealing with symbols in religious and popular tradition. Included are "Symbols in Fairy Tales" by Katharine M Briggs and "Protective Symbols in the Home" by Christina Hole.
690. Talking Folklore. Volume 1, Number 1. [London: British Folk Studies Forum,] Autumn, 1986. Illustrations. 8vo, 44pp; pictorial wrappers. Includes an article by Gillian Bennett "In my School - Games mostly", about children's games and rhymes.
691. Taylor (Emily): Hither and Thither. A Pot-Pourri of Literary Fancy. London: W Heffer & Sons, 1938, Small 8vo, vii 148pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "from the Authoress". Light essays on a variety of topics such as "The Living Past", "Witches", "Fabulous Creatures", &c.
692. Thomas (Northcote W): Bibliography of Anthropology and Folk-Lore 1906. Containing Works Published within the British Empire. London: David Nutt, published for the Joint-Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Folk-Lore Society, 1907. 8vo, lxxv; printed wrappers (edges faded & chipped). First Annual issue.
693. Tylor (Edward B): Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization. London: Macmillan, 1881. 8vo, xv 448pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine darkened, ends frayed).
694. Tylor (Edward B): Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom. London: John Murray, 1891. Complete in two volumes. Large 8vo, xii 502 - viii471pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Third edition, revised (originally published 1871). With Folklore Society bookplates and ink stamps.
695. Western Folklore, Special Issue, Volume XXIX, Number 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, July 1980. 8vo, pp153-]265[2]; printed wrappers. Special issue devoted to "Children's Folklore", with articles by Sylvia Ann Grider on "The Study of Children's Folklore" and "A Select Bibliography of Childlore", Sue Samuelson on "The Cooties Complex", Jeanne Soileau on "Children's Cheers as Folklore", and four others.
696. Wheeler (Maud): Moles or Birth-Marks and their Signification to Man and Woman. London: Roxburghe Press, 1894. Frontispiece. 8vo, 145[5]pp untrimmed (halftitle clipped, hinges cracked); original gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, marked). First edition. A fascinating and curious subject, explaining the meaning of moles in different locations.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE

697. Ashby (Thomas): Some Italian Scenes and Festivals. London: Methuen [1929]. Eighteen plates. 8vo, xv 179[1] + 8 ads (foxing); gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded, cocked). First edition.
Lilly Library call number: DG429 .A75
698. Blacker (Carlos) Supernatural Abduction in Japanese Folklore. Reprinted from Asian Folklore Studies, Vol XXVI-2 (1967). Small 4to, pp[111-]147; wrappers. Housed in envelope addressed to the Opies. Presentation copy inscribed "To Peter & Iona, with friendship & gratitude, Carmen". With two page citations in pencil by the Opies on the front wrapper next to the inscription.
699. Boletin del Departamento de Investigacion de las Tradiciones Populares 4. [Bahia San Hipolito, Mexico]: Direccion General de Arte Popular [Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1977]. Illustrations. 8vo, 171pp + [1]colophon; pictorial wrappers. Limited to 2000 copies. Articles on Mexican folk traditions.
700. Borrow (George): The Zincali; or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain. With an Original Collection of their Songs and Poetry, and a Copious Dictionary of their Language. London: John Murray, 1841. Two volumes. 8vo, xvi 362 - vi 135pp + [2]ads untrimmed (occasional spotting, hinges cracked); cloth, printed spine labels (rubbed, soiled, one joint splitting, labels chipped). First edition. An important early scholarly study. With "Book Society" ledgers on front endpapers indicating when this set was read in the 19th century.
701. Bose (Basanta Coomar): Hindu Customs in Bengal. Calcutta: The Book Company [published by Girindra Nath Mitra], ca1920s. Small 8vo, [vii] 125pp; cloth-backed lettered boards (soiled). First edition. Hindu customs on pregnancy & birth, hair cutting, marriage, death, &c. Printed by Jyotish Chandra Ghosh at the Cotton Press (Calcutta). Rare.
702. Butt-Thompson (F W): West African Secret Societies. Their Organizations, Officials and Teaching. London: H F & G Witherby, 1929. Thirteen plates + one map. 8vo,320pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
703. (Oversize) Canziani (Estella): Costumes Traditions and Songs of Savoy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1911. Fifty color plates (tipped onto heavier stock, with tissue guards) + text illustrations by the author. Large 4to, xiii 180pp; full vellum, front cover with colored coat of arms, spine gilt-lettered (lacking ties). Deluxe gift book (though no mention of a limitation). Unused bookplate of the author laid in.
704. Catalogue. Exhibition of Books & Other Materials of Folklore and Allied Subjects. Organized by Rabindra Bharati University and Indian Folklore Society. [Calcutta: Jt. Secretaries on behalf of the Folklore Exhibition Committee, May 15, 1966]. 4to, 38pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition, with compliments card of Geoffrey Handley-Taylor paper-clipped in. Rare exhibition catalogue devoted to Indian folklore.
705. Chapman (J A): India Its Character. A Reply to Mother India. Oxford: basil Blackwell, 1928. 8vo, ix 84pp; printed boards. First edition. A defense of Indian culture from attacks by Ms Mayo in her book Mother India (see "Mother India" below).
Lilly Library DS421 .M45
706. Craigie (William A): Scandinavian Folk-Lore. Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the North Peoples. Selected and Translated ... Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1896. 8vo, xx 554pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition.
707. Les Cris des Marchands de Comestibles en Wallonie. Brussels: Ministere de la Culture Française, 1977. Facsimile illustrations. 8vo, 228pp; wrappers. Volume VI in the collection "Contributions au Renouveau du Folklore en Wallonie". A study of local street cries.
708. Dare (M Paul): Indian Underworld. A first-hand account of Hindu saints, sorcerers, and superstitions. London: Rider , ca1938. 8vo, 218pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket.
709. Dubois (J A), Abbé: Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies. Translated from the author's later French Ms and edited with notes, corrections, and biography by Henry K Beauchamp. With a prefatory note by F Max Müller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. Frontispiece portrait. 8vo. xxxiv 741pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Third edition (originally published 1897?).
710. Edib (Halidé): Inside India. London: George Allen & Unwin [1937]. 8vo, 378pp + [6]ads; lettered cloth, dust jacket. Presentation copy from C Rahmat Ali, "founder-president, Pakistan National Movement", also with his compliments slip.
711. Elliot (Robert Henry): The Myth of the Mystic East. Edinburgh: Wm Blackwood & Sons, 1935. 8vo, xi 301[1]pp; gilt-pictorial cloth. Second printing. Debunking the mysteries of the East (i.e., India).
712. Études Tsiganes. Bulletin de l"Association des Etudes Tsiganes. 14e Année, Nos 2 et 3. Paris, October, 1968. Illustrations. 8vo, 78[1]pp; printed wrappers. Studies in gypsy culture.
713. Falassi (Alessandro): Folklore by the Fireside. Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia. Foreword by Roger D Abrahams. London: Scolar Press [1980]. Text illustrations. 8vo, xix 377[2]pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine faded). First British edition. Fascinating study of Tuscan folklore centered around the "veglia" (the evening family gathering around the hearth).
714. Gluckman (Max): Custom and Conflict in Africa. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1955. 8vo, ix 173pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
715. The Gypsy and Folk-Lore Gazette, Vol III, No 1. London: The Gypsy Arts & Curio Co., 1914. Plates. Small 4to, 32pp; color pictorial wrappers (a bit worn). The official organ of the Gypsy & Folk-Lore Club, with an article by William Townley Searle on gypsy superstitions, customs & ceremonies.
716. Hoyland (John): A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies; designed to develop the origin of this singular people, and promote the amelioration of their condition. York: printed for the author, and sold by Wm Alexander; Darton, Harvey & Co [etc], London, 1816. 8vo, 265[1]pp (foxing, mends in blank margin of preliminary text leaves); early 1/4 calf over marbled boards (rubbed, spine ends chipped). First edition. Early work on the gypsies residing in Great Britain, discussing their superstitions, folklore, language, &c.
717. Lane (Edward William): The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians. London: J M Dent [1923]. Double-page decorative title + text illustrations. 12mo, xxv[i] 630pp (lacking front fly-leaf); gilt-lettered cloth. Originally published 1836, here it is issued as part of Dent's "Everyman's Library". Lane is best know for his translation of the Arabian Nights.
Lilly Library DT70 .L27 1923
718. Leland (Charles G): The Gypsies. London: Trubner & Co [1882]. 8vo, 372pp hinges cracked; original gilt-pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, lightly soiled). Bookplate of Oscar Boulton. First British edition, comprising the sheets of the first edition (Boston, 1882) with a canceled titled leaf. Descriptions by this early authority on Gypsies of their lives in England, Wales, and America, plus chapters on magic spells, tales, names, &c.
Lilly Library DX115 .L5 1882
719. (Oversize) Leland (Charles G): Etruscan Roman Remains. London: T Fisher Unwin, 1892. Color frontispiece (loose) + many text illustrations. 4to, viii385pp + [1]colophon; pictorial cloth. First edition. A study of Etruscan folklore, and its impact on later Italian culture. A handsome book.
720. Mallet (M): Northern Antiquities; or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws, Maritime Expeditions and Discoveries, Language and Literature of the Ancient Scandinavians. Translated from the French ...by Bishop Percy. Revised throughout, and considerably enlarged ... by I A Blackwell. London: Henry G Bohn, 1847. Colored engraved frontispiece. 8vo, [vi] 578pp (shaken, 1st gathering loose, frontispiece soiled); gilt-lettered cloth (soiled, rubbed). "New Edition", publisher's with compliments ink stamp on title.
721. Maran (René): Batouala. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou. Introduction by Donald E Herdeck. London: Heinemann [1973]. 12mo, [vii] 149pp; pictorial wrappers. Novel of African life, it won the Prix Goncourt when it was first published in Paris in 1921. Opie pencil note on title: "Chiefly for the circumcision ceremony, chapter 6".
722. Mayo (Katherine): Mother India. London: Jonathan Cape [1927]. 8vo, 391pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. A vigorous assault on traditional Indian culture: "It explains the conspiracy of silence that has surrounded the status of and the treatment of women in India; the appalling child marriages which bring wretched motherhood to immature human beings; ... why India is devitalized by sexual incontinence" (from dust jacket). This controversial work brought immediate response (see Chapman, above, and "Mother India" below).
723. Mayo (Katherine): Slaves of the Gods. London: Jonathan Cape [1929]. 8vo, 249pp + [5]ad; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). First edition. A critical view of traditional Indian culture.
724. "Mother India" by those who know her better than Miss K Mayo. Liverpool: privately printed, [1927]. 8vo, printed wrappers (foxed). First edition, limited to 2000 copies. Defense of Indian culture against attacks made by Ms Mayo in her book Mother India: "A Symposium of Reviews of the book by responsible people of long residence in India". See Chapman (above).
725. Pinon (Roger): Analyse Morphologique des Feux de Carême dans la Wallonie Occidentale. Brussels: Ministere de l'Education Nationale et de la Culture, 1962. 8vo, [i] 103[1]pp; printed wrappers. A study of the custom of Lenten fires, issued under the auspices of the Commission Royale Belge de Folklore. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "With my best wishes for 1963".
726. Rose (H J): Primitive Culture in Greece. London: Methuen [1925]. 8vo, ix 245[1]pp + 8 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Includes chapter on Magic & Mythology.
727. Saxo Grammaticus: The First Nine Books of Danish History of ... Translated by Oliver Elton. With some considerations of Saxo's Sources, Historical Methods, and Folk-Lore, by Frederick York Powell. London: David Nutt, 1894. 8vo, cxxvii[i] 435[1]pp; contemporary cloth-backed boards. "Of this work 750 copies are printed, 360 of which are issued to members of the Folk-lore Society as the extra publication of 1893". This 13th Century Danish text includes the story of Hamlet.
728. Smith (Laura Alexandrine): Through Romany Songland. London: David Stott, 1889. 12mo, xix 226[1]pp + [4]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, faded). First edition. Early study of Gypsy songs, with musical notations, words (translated) and extensive annotations.
Lilly Library ML3593 .S654
729. Viski (Karoly): Hungarian Peasant Customs. Budapest: Dr George Vajna & Co., 1937. With 32 full-page illustrations. 8vo, 187pp + [5]ads; plain wrappers with delicate pictorial jacket (edges chipped). Second edition (5-6 Thousand). Rare

LEGENDARY CREATURES

730. Ashton (John): Curious Creatures of Zoology. London: John C Nimmo, 1890. With 230 text illustrations. Large 8vo, xi 348pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; gilt-pictorial cloth . First edition. Visions of early travelers, &c. Ex-library, with "Railway Clearing House Literary Society" stamps.
Lilly Library QL89 .A7 1890
731. Briggs (K M): The Anatomy of Puck. An Examination of Fairy Beliefs among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1959]. Plates. 8vo, xi 284pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author on the title, where she adds "It was jolly mean of me not to have given you this". Also with two ALS from the author: to Mr Opie, January 14th [1960], and to Mrs Opie, 17 October [1964], with mailing envelope. A classic study by this important folklorist.
Lilly Library PR439 .F2 B8 c.2
732. Briggs (K M): The Personnel of Fairyland. A short account of the fairy people of Great Britain for those who tell stories to children. Oxford: Alden Press, 1953. Illustrations by Jane Moore. 8vo, 228pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (lightly spotted). First edition.
Lilly Library GR550 .B7
733. Briggs (Katharine): A Dictionary of Fairies. Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and other Supernatural Creatures. [London: Allen Lane [1976]. Text illustrations. 8vo, xix[ii] 481[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in.
Lilly Library GR549 .B85 1976 c.2
734. Briggs (Katharine): An Encyclopedia of Fairies. Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and other Supernatural Creatures. New York: Pantheon Books [1976]. Text illustrations. 8vo, xiii[i] 481[1]pp; gilt-pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American edition. With publisher's compliments slip laid in. Opie blurb on rear wrapper.
Lilly Library GR549 .B85 1976 c.2
735.(Oversize) Dickinson (Peter): The Flight of Dragons. London: Book Club Associates [1979]. Illustrations by Wayne Anderson (chiefly in color). 4to, 137pp; gilt cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. The author argues that dragons actually did exist.
Lilly Library GR830 .D7 D52 1979
736. Doyle (Arthur Conan): The Coming of the Fairies. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1922]. Plates. 8vo, 139pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Doyle's infamous defense of the Cottingley fairies (faked photographs of fairies).
Lilly Library PR4622 .C5 c.3
737. Edwards (Gillian): Hobgoblin and Sweet Puck. Fairy Names and Natures. [London:] Geoffrey Bles [1974]. 8vo, [x] 229pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. With British Book News slip requesting a review (Opie holograph notes on verso).
Lilly Library GR550 .E38
738. Fairholt (F W): Gog and Magog. The Giants in Guildhall; their Real and Legendary History. With an Account of other Civic Giants, at Home and Abroad. London: john Camden Hotten, 1859. Plates including colored frontispiece. 12mo, xii 152pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Documents the "universality of belief held by the people of all ages and countries in a gigantic race" (preface).
Lilly Library DA687 .G9 F3
>739. Gardner (Edward L): Fairies. The Cottingley Photographs and their Sequel. London: Theosophical Publishing House [1945]. Plates. Small 4to, 47pp; cloth-backed lettered boards, pictorial dust jacket (worn). First edition. Another noted defense of the Cottingley fairies.
Lilly Library BF1552 .G3 1945
740. Gould (Charles): Mythical Monsters. London: W H Allen, 1886. Colored frontispiece and numerous text illustrations. Large 8vo, [vii] 407[1]pp (hinges cracked); gilt-pictorial cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library QL991 .G6 c.2
741. Hamel (Frank): Human Animals. London: William Rider & Son, 1915. 8vo, xii 301[1]pp + [4]ads; pictorial cloth. First edition. Chapters on werewolves, witches, transformation in folk-lore & fairy tale, &c.
Lilly Library GR825 .H25
742. Hutches (Jane): Discovering Mermaids and Sea Monsters. Gubblecote, Tring: Shire Publications [1968]. Illustrations. 12mo, 40pp; pictorial wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. First edition.
Lilly Library QL89 .H93
743. Keightley (Thomas): The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries. London: H G Bohn, 1860. Engraved frontispiece by Cruikshank. 8vo, xvi 560pp + endpaper ads (hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, joints torn). "New Edition, Revised and Greatly Enlarged": originally published in 1828. Keightley was one of the first folklorists to turn his attention from the ancient literary mythology of the Greeks & Romans to contemporary rustic legends.
Lilly Library GR550 .K4 1860
744. Keightley (Thomas): The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries. London: H G Bohn, 1878. Engraved frontispiece by Cruikshank. 8vo, x 560pp + endpaper ads; gilt-lettered cloth. "New Edition, Revised and Greatly Enlarged" (reprint of the 1860 edition).
Lilly Library GR550 .K4 1878
745. Lee (Henry): Sea Fables Explained. London: William Clowes & Sons, 1884. Illustrations. 8vo, x 139[1]pp; pictorial wrappers (soiled, spine chipped). Second edition (originally published the previous year). Issued in connection with the Great International Fisheries Exhibition (London, 1883). The first chapter deals with "Mermaids" (pp1-51).
Lilly Library GR910 .L51 1884
746. Lum (Peter): Fabulous Beasts. London: Thames & Hudson, ca1970s. Illustrations by Anne Marie Jauss. 8vo, 256pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket.
Lilly Library GR825 .L83 1952
747. Peele (Cecily): The Encyclopaedia of British Bogies. Oxford: The Alley Workshops, ca1930. Pictorial title, index + 24 full-page illustrations by B C P (?the author). 8vo, [51]pp; color pictorial boards (soiled). First edition. Picturebook of imaginary creatures: Banshee, Brownie, Changeling, Elf, Fairy, Giant, Hobgoblin, Jack-a-lantern, Kelpie, Puck, Witch, &c.
Lilly Library NC242 .P4 E5 1939
748. Phillpotts (Beatrice): Mermaids. [London:] Russell Ash/Windward [191980]. Profusely illustrated (chiefly in color). 4to, 96pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library GR910 .P5
749. Sanderson (Stewart): A Prospect of Fairyland. [Offprint from Folklore, Vol 75, Spring 1964]. 8vo, 18pp; printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed by the author; also with TLS from the author to Peter Opie, 16 June 1964. Preserved in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. Study of the Scottish fairy tradition.
Lilly Library BF1552 .S2
750. Spence (Lewis): British Fairy Origins. London: Watts & Co [1946]. 8vo, ix 206pp (portion of dust jacket mounted verso title); lettered cloth. Second impression (same year as the first). The origin of the belief in fairy spirits in Great Britain.
Lilly Library BF1552 .S66
751. Spence (Lewis): The Fairy Tradition in Britain. London: Rider & Co [1948]. Plates. 8vo, 374pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). First edition.
Lilly Library BF1552 .S6 c.2
752. Stokes (H F Scott): Perseus or of Dragons. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1924. Two text illustrations. 12mo, 80pp; boards with printed labels, printed dust jacket. First edition. An account of dragons in legend, and of their symbolic meanings.
Lilly Library GR830 .D7 S3
753. Thompson (C J S): The Mystery and Lore of Monsters. With Accounts of some Giants, Dwarfs and Prodigies. With a Foreword by Sir D'Arcy Power. London: Williams & Norgate, 1930. Numerous plates and text illustrations. 8vo, [iv] 256pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library GR825 .T469 1930
754. Waugh (Arthur), and Benwell (Gwen): Sea Enchantress. The Tale of the Mermaid and her Kin. London: Hutchinson [1961]. Plates. 8vo, 287pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With 2 ALS from Waugh to Peter Opie (24 February and 7 November, 1963), about folkloric matters and about his co-author (with original mailing envelopes).
Lilly Library GR 910 .B4

MEDICAL FOLKLORE

755. Bacon (Francis): Sylva Sylarum: or, A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. Published [?edited] after the author's death, by William Rawley. London: John Haviland, for William Lee, 1639. Folio (in 6s), [xvi] 218pp + [22] Table + [iii] 43pp "New Atlantis" (apparently lacking portrait + engraved titled, scattered damp-staining); later cloth, gilt morocco lettering pieces (faded). "Fifth edition". Quasi-scientific study of the medicinal properties of plants & herbs, &c.
Lilly Library QH41 .B2 1639 c.2
756. Chepmell (Edward C): A Domestic Hoeopathy, restricted to its Legitimate Sphere of Practice; together with Rules for Diet and Regimen. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1849. 12mo, xxvi 299[1]pp (shaken); gilt-lettered cloth (quite rubbed). Third edition (originally printed 1847).
Lilly Library RX73 .C51 1849
757. Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Edinburgh: William P Nimmo, ca1870s. Engraved frontispiece + pictorial title. Square 12mo, 160pp + 24 ads (hinges split, shaken, ads browned); gilt-decorative cloth (joints and extremities worn). Hundreds of medical anecdotes.
Lilly Library PN6231 .C5 1849
758. Haggard (Howard W): Devils, Drugs, and Doctors. The Story of the Science of Healing from Medicine-Man to Doctor. London: William Heinemann, 1929.Twelve plates + numerous text illustrations. 8vo, xxii 420pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spotted), pictorial dust jacket. First British edition. Early medical practices (including magical).
Lilly Library R131 .H2 D49 1929
759. Haggard (Howard W): The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind. The Vital Role of Medicine in the History of Civilization. London: William Heinemann, 1932. Four plates + numerous text illustrations. 8vo, xxiv[i] 405pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped). First British edition. Includes much on folk medicine and medical "hokum".
Lilly Library R131 .H2 L22 1932
760. Heath & Heather Ltd: Attack Illness the Herbal Way. St Albans, ca1962. Small 8vo, 25pp + [8] price list laid in; wrappers. Actual herbal catalogue.
Lilly Library RM666 .H33 H43 1962
761. Hecker (J F C): The Epidemics of the Middle Ages. Translated [from the German] by B G Babington. London: [The Sydenham Society] 1844. 8vo, xxviii 418[1]pp; gilt-lettered blind-stamped cloth. First edition thus. Details attacks of the Black Death, the Dancing mania, and the Sweating Sickness.
Lilly Library RA650.3 .H47 1844
762. Jarvis (D C): Folk Medicine. A Doctor's Guide to Good Health. London: Pan Books Ltd [1961]. 12mo, 184[1]pp + [7]ads; wrappers. First paperback edition.
Lilly Library R341 .J3 1961
763. A Leechbook or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century. The Text of Ms. No. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a Transcript into Modern Spelling. Transcribed and Edited with an Introduction, Notes and Appendix by Warren R Dawson. London: Macmillan, published for the Royal Society of Literature, 1934. 8vo, [vii] 344pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library R579 .L35
764. Lumbroso (Matizia Maroni): El mal del moc I rimedi della nonna descritti dai bambini delle varie regioni d'Italia. Rome: Fondazione Ernesta Besso, 1968. Large 8vo, 485pp; pictorial wrappers (a bit spotted), with publisher's advertising band. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed "To Mrs Opie aft Matizia Maroni 6.12.68 Rome".
Lilly Library RJ560 .M3
765. Lumbroso (Matizia Maroni): Appunti e Note Su Rimedi Omeopatici e Famigliari raccolti da ... [Castello:] Tiferno Grafica, 1975. 8vo, 38[2]pp; printed wrappers. First edition. Inscribed [to the Opies] "Why so silent? I am still alive after a big operation - and send you my love - Matizia Maroni". Collection of folk remedies.
766. Marryat (Thomas): Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing. To which are added, A Glossary, to explain all the difficult words; Recipes for several popular medicines now in use ... London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813. 12mo, xviii[i] 220pp (ink notations on title); contemporary leather-backed boards (extremities worn), gilt lettering piece. "Twenty-third edition" (original published 1758 in Latin), now with a "Sketch of the Author's Life".
767. Newman (L F): Some Notes on the History and Folk-Lore of Veterinary Science. [London: W S Paine, 1957]. 8vo, 34pp;printed wrappers. Housed in mailing envelope address to Peter Opie (and captioned by him). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed to Peter Opie. Also with ALS from the author to Peter Opie, seriously discussing folkloric matters.
768. Pettigrew (Thomas Joseph): On Superstitions connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery. London: John Churchill, 1844. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, viii167[1]pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth (spine ends frayed). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author. Opie pencil note on endpaper indicating Pettigrew vaccinated Queen Victoria.
769. Pickard (Madge E), and Buley (R Carlyle): The Midwest Pioneer. His Ills, Cures, & Doctors. New York: Henry Schuman, 1946. Frontispiece. 8vo, [ii] 339pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Early American medicine, including "Home Remedies and Domestic Medicine".
Lilly Library R151 .P5 1946
770. Turner (E S): Call the Doctor. A Social History of Medical Men. London: Quality Book Club [1958]. Text illustrations. 8vo, 320pp; gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket.
771. Walker (Kenneth): The Story of Medicine. London: Arrow Books [1959]. 12mo, 319[1]pp; pictorial wrappers. First published in 1954.
772. Wesley (John), Rev.: Primitive Physic; or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases. London: John Mason, 1830. 12mo, 144pp (sprung); original gilt-lettered calf (rubbed). "Thirty-third edition".

MYTH AND FOLKLORE

773. Asgard & The Norse Heroes. Retold by Katharine F Boult. London: J M Dent & Sons, ca1910s. Decorative double-page title. Small 8vo, x[i] 268pp + pictorial endpapers; original cloth, spine richly gilt (covers a bit spotted). Issued as part of the "Everyman's Library" edited by Ernest Rhys "for Young People".
Lilly Library BL860 .B68 1914
774. Berens (E M): The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome being a Popular Account of Greek and Roman Mythology. London: Blackie & Son, ca1890s. Text illustrations. 12mo, x [7-]332pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Fifth edition.
Lilly Library BL721 .B48
775. Blanchard (R H): Handbook of Egyptian Gods and Mummy Amulets. Cairo [1909]. Fifty-four plates. 4to, 28pp + plates + [2]index (lacking front fly-leaf); gilt-lettered calf (rubbed, spine faded). Early catalogue devoted to objects illustrating Egyptian mythology.
Lilly Library BL2450 .G6 B55
776. Bulfinch (Thomas): The Age of Fable. London: J M Dent & Sons [1948]. 12mo, x 371pp + [16]ads; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. A volume from Everyman's Library for Young People". With holograph inscription by Peter Opie: "This book 'for young people' begins with Prometheus who lighted his torch at the chariot of the sun ... it progresses through the symbolism of human emotion an ends, appropriately and rightly, with Iona. Christmas 1952".
Lilly Library BL310 .B87
777. Bulfinch (Thomas): Legends of Charlemagne. London: J M Dent & Sons, ca1920s. Double-page decorative title. 12mo, ix 240pp; lettered cloth (soiled, rubbed). Everyman's Library edition "for young people" of these Medieval legends.
Lilly Library PN687 .C5 B80
778. Campbell (Joseph): The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology. New York: Viking, 1962. Text illustrations. 8vo, x[i] 561pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (rubbed). First edition. The second (of four) independent volumes comprising a comprehensive study of man's myths by this popular writer.
Lilly Library BL611 .C18 1962
779. Campbell (Joseph): The Masks of God: Creative Mythology. New York: Viking [1968]. Text illustrations. 8vo, xvii[ii] 730pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (rubbed). First edition. The third (of four) independent volumes comprising a comprehensive study of man's myths by this popular writer.
Lilly Library BL311 .C269
780. Campbell (Joseph): The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology. New York: Viking, 1964. Text illustrations. 8vo, x[i] 564pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (rubbed). First edition. The fourth (of four) independent volumes comprising a comprehensive study of man's myths by this popular writer.
Lilly Library GN470 .C32 1964
781. Cox (Sir George W): Tales of Ancient Greece. London: J M Dent & Sons, ca1915. Decorative double-page title. Small 8vo, x 325pp + pictorial endpapers; original cloth, spine richly gilt. Issued as part of the "Everyman's Library" edited by Ernest Rhys "for Young People".
Lilly Library BL781 .C87 1915
782. Daniel (G E), et al: Myth or Legend? London: G Bell & Sons, 1956. Plates and text illustrations. 8vo, 125pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. Third printing. Twelve essays by twelve different scholars, on subjects such as Troy, the Holy Grail, Atlantis, &c. Lilly Librray GR73 .M9
783. Davidson (H R Ellis): Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin [1964]. 12mo, 251 + [4]ads; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library BL860 .P36
784. Elements of Mythology; or, an easy and concise History of the Pagan Deities; intended to enable the young reader to understand the ancient writers of Greece and Rome. London: printed by A J Valpy, sold by Longman, Whittaker, Simpkin, 1832. 12mo, vi 148pp; blind-stamped cloth (stained). Seventh edition.
Lilly Library BL721 .V2 1832
785. Furneaux (Rupert): Legend and Realty. London: Allan Wingate [1959]. Plates. 8vo, 121[2]pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Essays on Vampires, St George & the Dragon, the Pied Piper, the Wandering Jew, the Abominable Snow Man, &c.
Lilly Library D10 .F845
786. Gesta Romanorum. Translated from the Latin by Charles Swan. Revised and corrected by Wynnard Hooper. London: George Bell & Sons, 1899. 8vo, lxxvi 425pp + 32 ads; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). Collection of romances and legendary tales (some of Eastern origin) compiled in the 14th century (and despite the appearance, not based on historically events).
Lilly Library PA8323 .E5 S9 1899
787. Gesta Romanorum. Translated from the Latin by Charles Swan. Revised and corrected by Wynnard Hooper. London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. 12mo, [4]ads, lxxvi 423pp; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth. "York Library" edition.
Lilly Library PA8323 .E5 S9 1905
788. Goldsmith (Oliver): The History of Rome ... abridged by himself, for the Use of Schools. London: Leigh & Sothebys, et al, 1816. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, xii 300pp + 12 ads; contemporary calf (joints and extremities worn). "New Edition, Corrected". Includes discussion of the mythological origin of Rome, with Romulus & Remus.
Lilly Library DG210 .G63 1816
789. Harrison (Jane): Myths of Greece & Rome. London: Ernest Benn [1928]. 12mo, 79pp; wrappers. Third printing. No. 59 in "Benn's Sixpenny Library".
Lilly Library BL721 .H3 1928
790. Hodgart (M J C): "In the Shade of the Golden Bough" [as published in] The Twentieth Century. [London] February 1955. 8vo, pp111-119; pictorial wrappers. An essay on Frazer's great book and related matters.
Lilly Library BL310 .H8 1955
791. (Oversize) Ions (Veronica): The World's Mythology in Color. Introduction by Jacquette Hawkes. [Secaucus:] Chartwell Books [1987]. Many color illustrations. 4to, 350pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American edition.
Lilly Library BL311 .I54 1987
792. Kennett (Basil): Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, The Antiquities of Rome. In Two Parts. London: D Brown, et al, 1726. Portrait frontispiece, three full-page and seven folding plates, all copper-engraved. 8vo, [xvi] xxx 375pp + [26] Index, &c + [2]ads (several folding plates damaged); contemporary calf, morocco lettering piece (worn , front cover loose)."Eighth Edition". Includes substantial material on the Religion of the Romans (pp61-96).
Lilly Library DG79 .K34 1726
793. The Mabinogion. Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest. London: J M Dent [1906]. Double-page decorative title. 12mo, [viii] 432pp; gilt leatherette (edges worn). Everyman's library edition of this classic of Welsh mythology, with an introduction by R Williams. Second printing thus.
Lilly Library PB2363 .M2 G3
794. Macpherson (James): The Poems of Ossian, translated by ... London: William Miller, 1812. Complete in three volumes, with engraved plates by James Fittler after Henry Singleton. 12mo, xvii[ii] 243 - [iii] 335 - [iii] 332p; contemporary polished calf, covers ruled in gilt and ink, spines gilt with morocco lettering and numbering pieces (rubbed but still a very pretty set). An attractive edition of these purported translations from the early Gaelic poet Ossian (which are now thought to be a pastiche of traditional Gaelic tales).
Lilly Library PR3544 .A1 1812 v. 1 - 3
795. Malory (Sir Thomas): Malory's History of King Arthur and the Quest of the Holy Grail (from the Morte d'Arthur). Edited, with General Introduction ... by Ernest Rhys. London: Walter Scott, 1886. 8vo, xl 330pp + [6]ads; cloth with printed spine label (extremities rubbed). First edition. A volume in Rhys's of "The Camelot Classics" series. Armorial bookplate of Edmund Lamb.
Lilly Library PR 2043 .R5 1886
796. Malory (Sir Thomas): La Mort d'Arthure. The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table. Edited from the text of the edition of 1634 with introduction and notes by Thomas Wright. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1893. 8vo, 540pp + [4]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded and soiled). First edition thus, here published as #49 in "Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books" series.
Lilly Library call number: PR2043 .W7 1893
797. [Monsigny (Mary):] Mythology; or, A History of the Fabulous Deities of the Ancients: designed to facilitate the study of History, Poetry, Painting, &c. London: William Richardson, ca1780. 12mo, i, 3, xii[i] 320pp + [2]ads; contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). ?First edition. Dedication is signed by Monsigny. Opie pencil note indicating British Library copy is dated ?1780.
Lilly Library BL720 .M75 1794
798. The Norse Myths. Introduced and retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1982]. Vignette illustrations. 8vo, xli 276pp; color pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition, originally published 1980.
Lilly Library call number: BL860 .C9 1982
799. Phillips (Graham), and Keat (Martin): King Arthur: The True Story. London: Century [1992]. Plates. 8vo, [vii] 196pp; gilt-lettered cloth (cocked), color pictorial dust jacket. Purports to tell the truth behind the legend.
Lilly Library DA152.5 .A7 P485 1992
800. Raglan (Lord): The Hero. A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama. London: Watts & Co., [1949]. 12mo, x 310pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (a bit worn). First printing as part of "The Thinker's Library" (originally published 1936).
Lilly Library BL325 .H46 R3 1949
801. Raglan (Lord): "Myth and Ritual" [off-print from the] Journal of American Folklore, Volume 68, No 270, October, 1955. 8vo, pp454-461; printed wrappers. Off-print from a symposium on myth, presentation copy from the author. Also with TNS from Raglan to "Opie", January 1st, 1955, sending this article, as well as a ALS from his friend Warren Dawson discussing several points relating to children raised in Lord Raglan's text.
Lilly Library BL BL304 .R3 1955
802. Rhoïdis (Emmanuel): Pope Joan (The Female Pope). A Historical Study. Translated from the Greek of ... with Preface by Charles Hastings Collette. London: George Redway, 1886. Full-page portrait. 12mo, 102pp + [2]ads; pictorial cloth (soiled). First edition thus.
Lilly Library BX958 .F2 R57
803. Rouse (W H D): Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece. [New York:] New American Library , ca1960. 12mo, 189[3]pp; pictorial wrappers. Signet Key paperback.
Lilly Library BL781 .R8 1957
804. Spence (Lewis): The Outlines of Mythology. London: Watts [1944]. 12mo, vii 118pp + [2]ads; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library BL310 .S72
805. Sue (Eugene): The Wandering Jew. New Revised Translation from the original French by Henry L Williams. London: Routledge & Sons, ca1890s. Plates 8vo, 184pp; gilt-lettered cloth.
Lilly Library PQ2446 .J913 1887
806. The Symbolic Story of King Arthur. As illustrated and described in King Arthur's Hall, Tintagel, England. Trevena House, Tintagel [printed at the Bowering Press, Plymouth,] ca1910s. Photographic illustrations. Oblong 8vo, viii124pp; pictorial wrappers. The Arthurian legend, as embodied at Tintagel.
Lilly Library DA152.5 .A7 G5 1929
807. Tooke (Andrew): The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods ... for the Use of Schools. London: S Birt, C Hitch, C Bathurst, M Cooper, and J Ward, 1750. Engraved frontispiece + numerous copper-engraved plates. 12mo, [iv] 360pp + [36] Index/Ads; contemporary calf, gilt-ruled (Joints & extremities worn). "Seventeenth Edition, Revised, Corrected, Amended". Actually a translation of Pomey's Pantheum Mythicum. See Osborne catalogue, p12.
Lilly Library BL720 .P31 1750
808. Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with certain Songs from the Elder Edda. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by H Halliday Sparling. Translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris. London: Walter Scott, 1888. 12mo, lii 276pp + [8]ads; lettered cloth (spine dulled, ends worn). Morris's translation first appeared in 1870; here it is part of "The Camelot Series" edited by Ernest Rhys.
Lilly Library PT7287 .V7 E55 1888
809. Warner (Rex): Men and Gods. New York: Looking Glass Library [1959]. Full-page illustrations by Edward Gorey. 8vo, 287pp; pictorial boards. First edition with illustrations by this noted artist. Myths and legends of the ancients Greeks.
Lilly Library PR6045 .A63 M52 1959 c.2
810. Watson (David): A Clear and Compendious History of the Gods and Goddesses, and their Contemporaries ... for the Use of Schools. London: printed for the author, and sold by John Ward, April 7, 1753. 12mo, [vi] x 315pp + [40] Index/List (scattered foxing); contemporary calf-backed boards (worn, cover detached). Second edition. Chiefly deals with Greek and Roman gods.
Lilly Library BL303 .W37 1753

OCCULT FOLKLORE

811. Archdale (F A): Elementary Radiesthesia and the Use of the Pendulum. Southbourne: Mrs M Archdale, 1956. Illustrations. 12mo, 55[1]pp; printed wrappers. Third printing.
Lilly Library BF1628.3 .A6
812. Aubrey (John): Miscellanies upon Various Subjects. To which is added, Hydriotaphia; or, Urn Burial by Sir Thomas Browne. London: Reeves & Turner, 1890. Portrait frontispiece + one plate. 12mo, xvi 301pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Aubrey's work deal with all kinds of occult matters: oracles, second sight, magick, apparitions, omens, &c. Published here in the series "Library of Old Authors".
Lilly Library BF1410 .A8 1890
813. Bennett (E N): Apollonius or The Present and Future of Psychical Research. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, ca1920s. 12mo, 95pp + 19 ads; boards with paper labels (soiled). Presentation copy, warmly inscribed July 1928.
Lilly Library BF1031 .B4
814. Besant (Annie): The Ancient Wisdom. An Outline of Theosophical Teachings. London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1922. Folding frontispiece. 8vo, [vii] 338pp; lettered cloth. This work by the prominent disciple of Madame Blavatsky was first published in 1897.
Lilly Library BP563 .A6 1922
815. Cannon (Alexander): The Invisible Influence. A Story of the Mystic Orient with Great Truths which Can Never Die. London: Rider & Co [1933]. 8vo, 168pp; lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1031 .C24 1933
816. Carrington (Whately): Telepathy. An Outline of its Facts, Theory, and Implications. London: Methuen & Co [1945]. 8vo, xiii 176pp; lettered cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1171 .C2
817. (Oversize) Cavendish (Richard), editor: Encyclopedia of the Unexplained Magic, Occultism and Parapsychology. Special Consultant on Parapsychology, Professor J B Rhine. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1974]. Illustrations. 4to, 304pp; gilt-lettered, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1411 .C38 1974 c.2
818. Cheiro's Language of Hand. A complete practical work on the sciences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, containing the system, rules and experience of Cheiro the Palmist. New York: published by the author, 1894. Portrait frontispiece + numerous text illustration. 4to, 193[2]pp; decorative lettered cloth (spine worn, rubbed). First edition (often reprinted).
Lilly Library BF921 .H22 1894
819. Christopher (Milbourne): Seers, Psychics & ESP. London: Cassell [1971]. Plates. 8vo, x 268pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First British edition. History of the paranormal by this scholar of magic and conjuring.
Lilly Library BF1042 .C5 1917
820. Clodd (Edward): The Questions: "If a man die, shall he live again?" A Brief History and Examination of Modern Spiritualism. With a Postscript by H E Armstrong. London: Grant Richards, 1917. 8vo, 314pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1042 .C5 1917
821. Cohen (Daniel): Curses, Hexes, & Spells. London: J M Dent [1977]. Illustrations. 8vo, 125pp; pictorial boards. First British edition (originally published in the US in 1974). Part of the "Weird & Horrible Library".
Lilly Library GR600 .C6
822. Collins (V H), editor: More Ghosts and Marvels. A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Sir Walter Scott to Michael Arlen. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford , ca1920s. 12mo, 498[1]pp + 8 ads; gilt-lettered cloth. Include stories by Poe, Dickens, Macdonald, James, Machen, Wells, etc.
Lilly Library PZ1 .C724
823. The Complete Book of Fortune. A Comprehensive Survey of the Occult Sciences and other Methods of Divination that have been Employed by Man throughout the Centuries in his Ceaseless Efforts to Reveal the Secrets of the Past, the Present and the Future. Np: Associated Newspapers, ca1935. Text illustrations. 8vo, 640pp; pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped). With 1939 bill of sale from Harrods made out to Peter Opie.
Lilly Library BF1861 .C737
824. Coxhead (J R W): Ghosts in Devon. Brackneil: Town & Country Press, 1972. Illustrations by Roger Morris. 8vo, 84pp; pictorial wrappers (rubbed).
Lilly Library BF1472 .G7 C8
825. The Dangers of Spiritualism being Records of Personal Experiences with Notes and Comments ... by a member of the Society for Psychical Research. London: Sands, 1901. Four photographic + one folding plate. 8vo, [ii]153[1]pp + [6]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled, edges rubbed).
Lilly Library BF1042 .R3
826. De France (Henry), Vicomte: The Modern Dowser. A Guide to the Use of the Divining Road and Pendulum. Translated [from French] by A H Bell. London: G Bell & Sons, 1930. Plates. Small 8vo, xv 135[1]pp (a bit soiled); gilt-lettered cloth. First English edition.
Lilly Library BF1628 .F7
827. De Rola (Stanislas Klossowski): Alchemy. The Secret Art. London: Thames & Hudson [1973]. Profusely illustrated (many in color). 4to, 128pp; color pictorial wrappers.
Lilly Library QD26 .K55
828. Deacon (Richard): The Book of Fate. Its Origins and Uses. London: Frederick Muller [1976]. Plates. 8vo, 238pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1861 .K53 D4 1976
829. Deacon (Richard): Napoleon's Book of Fate. Its Origins and Uses. Secaucus: Citadel Press [1977]. Plates. 8vo, 238pp; pictorial wrappers. First American edition (originally published in the UK the previous year as The Book of Fate).
Lilly Library BF1861 .K53 D4 1977
830. Doyle (Arthur Conan): The Case for Spirit Photography. London: Hutchinson, ca1920s. Plates. 8vo, printed wrappers (spine crudely repaired).
Lilly Library PR4622 .C26 c.2
831. Drury (Nevill), and Tillett (Gregory): The Occult Sourcebook. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1978].Illustrations by Elizabeth Trafford Smith. Large 8vo, x 236pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1411 .D77
832. Evans (Joan): Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance particularly in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922. Four plates. 8vo, [ii] 264pp; gilt-lettered cloth (a bit spotted). First edition.
Lilly Library BF1561 .E8
833. Hudson (Thomson Jay): The Law of Psychic Phenomena. A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study of Hypnotism, Spiritism, Mental Therapeutics, Etc. London: G P Putnam's Sons, 1913. 8vo, 409pp + [4]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). Thirteenth printing (originally published 1893).
Lilly Library BF1031 .H86 1913
834. The Imperial-Royal Dream Book, and the Imperial-Royal Fortune Tellers and Book of Fate. London: published by the booksellers, ca1880s. Frontispiece. 12mo, 176pp; lettered cloth (cocked, soiled, rubbed).
Lilly Library BF1861 .I34
835. King (Francis): Ritual Magic in England,. 1887 to the present day. [London:] New English Library [1972]. 12mo, 176pp; pictorial wrappers.
Lilly Library BF1434 .G7 K5
836. Koestler (Arthur): The Roots of Coincidence. With a Postscript by Renée Hayne. [London:] Picador, published by Pan Books [1978]. Author's portrait on front pastedown. Small 8vo, 158[2]pp; pictorial wrappers. A study of ESP, by the author of Darkness at Noon.
Lilly Library BF1175 .K7
837. Lippman (Deborah), and Colin (Paul): How to Make Amulets, Charms and Talismans. What they mean and how to use them. London: Michael Dempsey [1974]. Text illustrations. 4to, 208pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1561 .L7
838. Minetta: Card-Reading. A Practical Guide. With Introduction by "Sepharial". London: William Rider & Sons, 1918.Four color plates. 12mo, vii 104pp (hinges cracked); lettered cloth (spine strip loose). Third printing. Cartomancy.
Lilly Library BF1878 .M6
839. Michell (John), and Rickard (Robert J M): Phenomena. A Book of Wonders. New York: Pantheon Books [1977]. Profusely illustrated. 4to, 128pp; pictorial wrappers. First American edition. Descriptions of "Images that weep and bleed", "Electric people", "Unreasonable footprints", "Honest codfish", "Teleportation", &c.
Lilly Library AG243 .M46 1977
840. [Moberly (C A E), and Jourdain (E F):] An Adventure. London: Macmillan, 1912 8vo, vi[i] 162pp; gilt-lettered cloth. Originally published the previous year. Misses Moberly and Jourdain's famous account of having seen Marie Antoinette and her court at Versailles in August 1901.
Lilly Library BF1473 .V3 M6 1912
841. Moberly (C A E), and Jourdain (E F): An Adventure. Edited by Joan Evans.. London: Faber & Faber [1945]. Pictorial half-title, plates + 4 folding plans. 8vo, 127pp; gilt-lettered cloth. The original text plus an attempt at explanation.
Lilly Library BF1473 .V3 M6 1955
842. [Moberly (C A E), and Jourdain (E F): ] An Adventure. With a Preface by Edith Olivier and a Note by J W Dunne. London: Faber & Faber [1947]. Four folding plans. Small 8vo, 118pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket.
Lilly Library BF1473 .V3 M6 1947
843. (Moberly & Jourdain) The Ghosts of Versailles. Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain and their Adventure. A Critical Study by Lucille Iremonger. London: Faber & Faber [1957]. Plates. 8vo, 313pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed), pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Several Opie pencil notes on endpapers.
Lilly Library BF1473 .V3 M6 c.2
844. Moll (Albert): Hypnotism. London: Walter Scott, 1890. 8vo, xii 410pp + [10] ads (shaken); gilt-lettered cloth (faded). Second (?British) edition.
Lilly Library RC494 .M7
845. Mullins (John): The Divining Rod. Its History, Truthfulness and Practical Utility. Bath: J & H W Mullins, 1927. Plates. 12mo, 97[3]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (publisher's paper label added to front cover). Includes list of satisfied customers (starting with six Dukes).
Lilly Library BF1628 .M8 1927
846. Napoleon's Book of Fate and Oraculum. Containing Dreams and their Interpretation, Weather Omens, Astrological Miscellany and Important Advise ... London: W Foulsham [1925]. Small 8vo, 191[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). With slip of manuscript notes by the Opies detailing the earliest editions.
Lilly Library BF1091 .N3
847. Omens and Superstitions: Curious Facts and Illustrative Sketches. Edinburgh: W P Nimmo [1868]. Frontispiece + pictorial title. 12mo, 160pp + 24 ads; gilt-decorative cloth (rubbed, dusty). Charms, prophetic dreams, astrology, &c.
Lilly Library BF1775 .O5
848. Owen (A L): The Famous Druids. A Survey of Three Centuries of English Literature on the Druids. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. Plates. 8vo, [xii] 264pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With ALS from the author to Peter Opie, 14 August 1963, with mailing envelope. Opie's pencil notes on endpaper and on inserted card.
Lilly Library BL910 .D9
849. Paracelsus: The Archidoxes of Magic. London: Askin [1975]. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, [vi] [xx] 158[6]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition thus (British issue): originally published in 1656.
Lilly Library BF1598 .P2 A253 1975
850. Payne (Phoebe D): The Psychic Sense. With a Foreword by L A G Strong. London: Faber & Faber [1943]. Small 8vo, 198pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled). First edition.
Lilly Library BF1031 .P39 1943
851. Penry (Jacques): How to Judge Character from the Face. A complete explanation of character as it is shown by the size, proportion, and texture of each feature. London: Hutchinson [1952]. Frontispiece + numerous illustration. 4to, 114pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Second printing (originally published 1939).
Lilly Library BF851 .P4 1952
852. Playfair (Guy Lyon): This House is Haunted. An Investigation of the Enfield Poltergeist. London: Book Club Associates [1980]. Plates. 8vo, 288pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Published the same year as the first edition.
Lilly Library BF1473 .H37 P55 1980
853. Reed (Clarence): Great Prophecies about the War. Collected by ... London: Faber & Faber [1941]. Small 8vo, 64pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Prophecies of Nostradamus and others.
Lilly Library D810 .P75 R3
854. A Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry ... and a key to the Phi Beta Kappa. London: W Reeves, ca1870s. Thirty lithographed plates. 12mo, iv 254pp + 36 ads; green cloth, gilt pictorial spine. Attractive handbook.
Lilly Library HS457 .A4
855. Royal (Margaret), and Girvan (Ian): True Stories of the Ghosts of Bath. Bath, 1974. Illustrations. 8vo, 24pp; color pictorial wrappers.
Lilly Library BF1461 .R69
856. Royal (Margaret), and Girvan (Ian): Bristol Ghosts and their Neighbours. Abson: Abson Books [1977]. Illustrations by Steve V Bransgrove. 8vo, 47[1]pp; wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1472 .G7 R69
857. St Hill (Katharine): The Grammar of Palmistry. London: George Redway, 1889. With 7 plates. 12mo, 100pp + [12]ads (foxing); pictorial cloth (soiled, rubbed).
Lilly Library BF921 .S1
858. Stead (W T): The Blue Island. Experiences of a New Arrival beyond the Veil. With a letter from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. London: Hutchinson, ca1922. Frontispiece. 8vo, 155[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled), dust jacket (soiled & chipped). Seventh edition. Spiritualism.
Lilly Library BF1301 .S79
859. Sturge (M Carta): The Truth and Error of Christian Science. With an Introduction by H S Holland. London: John Murray, 1903. 8vo, xxxii 160pp; gilt-lettered cloth.
Lilly Library BX6955 .S87 1903
860. Tabori (Paul): Harry Price. The Biography of a Ghost-Hunter. London: Sphere Books [1974]. Plates. 12mo,303[1]pp; pictorial wrappers. Volume 7 in Dennis Wheatley's Library of the Occult (here with an introduction by Wheatley).
Lilly Library BF1027 .P67 T1
861. Taylor (F Sherwood): The Alchemists. [St Albans:] Paladin [1976]. Plates. 12mo,191pp; pictorial wrappers. This survey was originally published in 1952.
Lilly Library QD13 .T4
862. Thaumaturgia, or Elucidations of the Marvellous. By an Oxonian. London: Edward Churton, 1835. 12mo, vii 362pp + [2]ads (loose from binding); original cloth, spine gilt (top joint worn). With chapters on demonology, divination, astrology, amulets, theosophy, &c.
Lilly Library BF1411 .O98
863. Thomas (Keith): Religion and the Decline of Magic. Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. Harmondsworth: Penguin [1978]. 8vo, xx[i] 853pp + [4]ads; pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated (6 October 1980) by the author on the title. Also with ALS from the author to Mrs Opie thanking her on her kind remarks about his contribution to Children and their Books, dated 26 Sept 1989 (with original mailing envelope).
Lilly Library BR377 .T48 1978
864. Thompson (C J S): The Lure and Romance of Alchemy. London: George C Harrap [1932]. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, [iv] 248[1]pp (scattered foxing); lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition.
Lilly Library QD13 .T5
865. Welfare (Simon), and Fairley (John): Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World. London: Book Club Associates [1980]. Many illustrations (chiefly in color). 4to, 216[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. With Foreword and Introduction by Clarke. Chapters on the "Missing Ape Man", UPOs, "Monsters of the Deep", &c.
Lilly Library AG243 .W33 1980
866. White (Mrs John): "Shall I tell your fortune, my Pretty Maid?" . London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., ca1890s. Text diagrams. 12mo, 36pp; color pictorial boards (spotted, spine chipped). "Twenty-third Thousand". Palmistry.
Lilly Library BF921 .W58
867. Williams (Griffith John): Iolo Morganwg. [London: BBC, 1963]. 12mo, 37[1]pp; printed wrappers. First edition. With compliments slip & ALS from Iorwerth C Peate (of the Welsh Folk Museum) informing the Opies of Williams's death and giving them this booklet. Also with ALS from Williams himself to Peter Opie, 24 November 1962. The text of this small volume was a lecture on the Welsh scholar/druid of the early 19th century, broadcast in the Welsh Home Service, 17 October 1963. Preserved in a plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
Lilly Library CT119 .W7
868. Zodiastar: Everybody's Book of Luck. A Complete Guide to Fortune-Telling and Gook Luck. London: Success Publishing Company, ca1930s. 8vo,254pp + [2]ads; decorative wrappers (spotted, spine worn). Cheap production.
Lilly Library BF1861 .Z88

POPULAR ERRORS

869. [Ash (Russell)]: Fact or Fiction? A Dossier on Old Beliefs that Die Hard. London: The Reader's Digest Association Ltd [1973]. Illustrations. 12mo, 60[4]pp; pictorial wrappers (worn). Partly taken from Bergen Evans's book (below).
Lilly Library AZ999 .A83
870. Bonaparte (Marie): Myths of War. Translated [from the French] by John Rodker. London: Imago [1947]. 8vo, 161pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First English edition. A discussion of myths arising from the second world war (e.g., "The Myth of the devil-Jew") by this noted French psycho-analyst.
Lilly Library BF173 .B638
871. Browne (Thomas): The Works Edited by Simon Wilkins. London: Bohn, 1852. Complete in three volumes. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo, lxxxii 463pp - iv 563pp - vii 542pp + ads on endpapers; gilt-lettered cloth (spines worn). Well-edited edition of Browne's works, including his "Vulgar Errors" (here comprising Vols 1 & 2) originally published as "Pseudodoxia Epidemica" in 1646. Here Browne analyses and details mistaken popular beliefs. With Opie pencil notes on fly-leaf and laid in slip.
Lilly Library PR3327 .A18 1852 v.1, v.2, v.3
872. Dale (Rodney): The Tumour in the Whale. A Collection of Modern Myths. Foreword by George Melly. [London:] A Universal Book, W H Allen [1978]. Illustrations by Bill Tidy. 12mo, 169pp + [5] ads; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library GR79 .D35
873 Evans (Bergen): The Natural History of Nonsense. London: Michael Joseph [1948]. 8vo, 269pp; lettered pictorial cloth, pictorial dust jacket (chipped). Third printing (originally published the previous year). A study in the "paleontology of delusion" and an "assault upon some of the more preposterous errors and legends that mankind insists on believing. Signed and dated (1953) by Peter Opie on the fly-leaf , where he has added this holograph note: "Should be required reading for all folklorists, three times over, particularly the first and last chapters".
Lilly Library AZ999 .E8 1948
874. Evans (Bergen): The Natural History of Nonsense. London: Michael Joseph [1953]. Small 8vo, 206pp; pictorial flexible boards. First "Mermaid Books" edition (originally printed 1947). With Opie bibliographical note on endpaper.
Lilly Library AZ999 .E8 1953
875. Gardner (Martin): Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. New York: Dover [1957]. 8vo, x 363pp + [24]ads; wrappers. Second revised edition, originally titled In the Name of Science. Discusses the theories of modern pseudo-scientists and the cults that surround them.
Lilly Library Q173 .G35 1957
876. Gould (Rupert T): A Book of Marvels. London: Methuen [1937]. Illustrations by the author. Small 8vo, ix 180[2]pp; lettered cloth (soiled). First edition, issued as part of "The Fountain library". Chapters include "The Devil's Hoof-Marks" and "there were Giants in those days".
Lilly Library AG243 .G69 1937
877. Le Bon (Gustave): The Crowd. A Study of the Popular Mind. London: T Fisher Unwin [1920]. 8vo, 239[1] + 35[1]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (faded). 12th printing.
Lilly Library HM281 .L53 1920
878. Mackay (Charles): Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: G Routledge, 1856. Two volumes bound as issued in one volume, both with frontispiece, pictorial title and many text Illustrations. 8vo, viii 303[1] - vi 322pp; gilt-decorative cloth. Third edition (first published 1841). An important text perhaps best-remembered for its descriptions of financial manias, but also dealing with modern prophecies, fortune-telling, witches, etc.
Lilly Library AZ999 .M2 1856
879. Moore (Doris Langley): The Vulgar Heart. An Enquiry into the Sentimental Tendencies of Public Opinion. London: Cassell [1945]. 8vo, 296pp; gilt-lettered cloth (soiled, bumped). First edition.
Lilly Library DA566.4 .M58 1945
880. Ponsonby (Arthur): Falsehood in War-Time. Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated throughout the Nations during the Great War. London: George Allen & Unwin [1928]. 8vo, 192pp; printed wrappers. Third printing (same year as the first).
Lilly Library D639 .P6 P6
881. Ripley (Robert L): Believe it or not! A Modern Book of Wonders, Miracles, Freaks, Monstrosities and almost-Impossibilities. London: Stanley Paul, 1928. Illustrated. 8vo, 189pp; lettered cloth (soiled). Ninth Impression.
Lilly Library AG243 .R4 1928
882. Sitwell (Osbert), and Barton (Margaret): Sober Truth. A Collection of Nineteenth-Century Episodes Fantastic, Grotesque and Mysterious. With a preface by Osbert Sitwell. London: Macdonald & Co [1944]. Plates. 8vo, xxvii 235pp; lettered cloth (spine faded). Second edition. A most curious melange: "The Mermaids seen off the coast of Caithness", "The Sea Serpent seen by HMS Daedalus", &c.
Lilly Library D358.5 .B3 1944
883. Sketches of Popular Tumults; Illustrative of the Evils of Social Ignorance. London: C Cox, 1847. 12mo, v [5-]236pp; contemporary 1/4 leather (spine chipped and worn). Bookplate.
Lilly Library HM283 .C92
884. Timbs (John): Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated. London: David Bogue, 1856. Engraved frontispiece (foxed). 12mo, viii 376pp + 32 ads; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). "New Edition" (originally published 1841). Fascinating description of no fewer than seven hundred popular errors or misconceptions, including a chapter on "Erroneous Laws and Customs".
Lilly Library AZ999 .T5 c.2
885. Timbs (John): Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated. A Book for Old and Young. London: Kent & Co (late Bogue), 1857. Wood-engraved frontispiece. 12mo, viii 247pp + 32 ads; gilt-lettered cloth (spine ends chipped). "An entirely New Edition" (originally published 1841), now sub-titled "Things not generally Known". Timbs indicates that the present edition "has been in great part rewritten, so as to be in the main a new work".
Lilly Library AZ999 .T5 1857
886. Timbs (John): Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained. A Book for Old and Young. London: Kent & Co (late Bogue), 1857. Wood-engraved frontispiece. 12mo, [vi] 247pp + [17] pictorial ads; gilt-lettered cloth. "New Edition - Fourteenth Thousand". Opie note laid in: "Page numbers are the same as in 1st edn, 1856" (? This does not seem to be the case).
Lilly Library AG105 .T5 1857
887. Timbs (John): Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated. A Book for Old and Young. London: Lockwood, 1862. Wood-engraved frontispiece. 12mo, viii 247pp; contemporary 1/4 leather (rubbed), gilt lettering piece. "Third Edition - Seventh Thousand", sub-titled "Things not generally Known". Opie pencil note on fly-leaf "Differs considerably from 1856 ed ..." (also with typed biographical note laid in). Lilly Librray AZ999 .T5 1862
888. Trotter (W): Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War. London: T Fisher Unwin [1921]. 8vo, 264pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). 6th printing (originally published during WWI).
Lilly Library HM281 .T6 1919

PROVERBS

889. Cheales (Alan B): Proverbial Folk-Lore. Dorking: R J Clark [1875]. 8vo, [iv] 173pp; lettered cloth. "Second edition. Revised and Enlarged".
890. Cheviot (Andrew): Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Collected and arranged with introduction, notes and parallel phrases. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1896. 8vo, xii434pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
891. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. Edited by J A Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. 8vo, xiii[i] 256pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. With slip of notes by Iona Opie laid in.
892. Crossing (William): Folk Rhymes of Devon. Notices of the Metrical Sayings Found in the Lore of the People. Exeter: James G Commin, 1911. 8vo, [vii] 156pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Elaborate explanations of the meanings of various folk rhymes and sayings.
893. Denham (M A): A Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings relating to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural Pursuits; Gathered chiefly from oral Tradition. London: Percy Society, 1846. 8vo, [iii] iv 73pp; contemporary 1/4 leather, rebacked using most of the original gilt-lettered spine. First edition.
894. Fielding (Thomas): Select Proverbs of all Nations: illustrated with Notes and Comments. To which is added, a summary of ancient pastimes, holidays, and customs. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. 12mo, xxiv 215[1]pp; contemporary 1/2 calf, spine gilt-lettered. Apparently the first edition (earliest printing in the British library). Fielding was a pseudonym for John Wade.
895. Fielding (Thomas): Select Proverbs of all Nations: illustrated with Notes and Comments. To which is added, a summary of ancient pastimes, holidays, and customs. London: G Berger, ca1830s. 12mo, xviii 216pp; original cloth, spine gilt-lettered. This edition not in the British library (see previous entry for first edition). Fielding was a pseudonym for John Wade.
896. Fuller (Thomas): Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British. London: B Barker, and A Bettesworth & C Hitch, 1732. 8vo, x 297[5]pp; contemporary calf (joints and extremities worn). First edition.
897. Grose (Francis): A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions. London: S Hooper, 1787. 8vo, viii [292]pp, 75pp + [4]ads; contemporary tree-calf, spine richly gilt and with lettering piece (spine chipped). First edition. The proverbs fill 132pp; the superstitions (e.g., ghosts, witches, fairies) 75pp.
898. Macintosh (Donald): A Collection of Gaelic Proverbs, and Familiar Phrases; accompanied with an English translation, intended to facilitate the study of language. Edinburgh: for the Author, and sold by Messrs Donaldson [et al], 1785. 12mo, x[i] 71 + 71pp, [73-]83pp (soiled, tear in blank margin of title); early leather-backed boards (spine worn). First edition, 1st issue with Gaelic title.
899. The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs. Compiled by William George Smith. With Introduction and Index by Janet E Heseltine. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. 8vo, xxviii 644pp (inner hinges re-enforced); gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. A classic reference, with dozens of manuscript annotations by Peter Opie.
900. The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs. Compiled by William George Smith. With Introduction and Index by Janet E Heseltine. Revised by Sir Paul Harvey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. 8vo, xxxi[i] 740pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (chipped). Second edition, revised throughout. Publisher's with compliments slip laid in. Signed by Iona & Peter Opie. dated 1952. Also with several manuscript annotations by Peter Opie.
901. Proverbs; or, The Manual of Wisdom: being an alphabetical arrangement of the best English, Spanish, French, Italian, and other Proverbs. Oxford: printed by Slatter & Munday, for R S Kirby, London, 1803. 12mo, [iii] vi 146pp (soiled); contemporary 1/2 calf (rubbed). Obscure collection, not in the BL database.
902. Surgeon (C H): The Salt-Cellars. Being a Collection of Proverbs together with Homely Notes Thereon. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1893. Two volumes. 8vo, viii 334pp + 8 ads - [ii] 367pp + 8 ads; decorative cloth. "Twelfth Thousand" (originally published 1889). "These three things go to the making of a proverb: Shortness, Sense, and Salt".
903. Taylor (Archer), and Whiting (Bartlett Jere): A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases 1820-1880. Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1958. Large 8vo, xxii[i] 418pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. A classic reference.
904. Toynbee (Arnold): An Historian's Approach to Religion. Based on Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the years 1952 and 1953. London: Geoffrey Cumberledge, Oxford University Press, 1956. 8vo, ix 316pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (dusty). First edition.
905. Wheeler (J M): Bible Studies. Essays on Phallic Worship and other Curious Rites and Customs. London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1892. Occasional text illustrations. Small 8vo, v[ii] 136pp; lettered cloth.

RELIGION AND FOLKLORE

906. The Apocryphal New Testament, being all The Gospels, epistles, and other Pieces now extant, attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ ... and not included in the New Testament, by its compilers. London: William Hone, 1821. 8vo, xix[i] 251[1]pp untrimmed; contemporary paper-backed boards (spine chipped, edges worn). Third edition. Ink note on fly-leaf: "This is: One of the genuine copies issued by Hone himself".
907. The Apocryphal New Testament, being all The Gospels, epistles, and other Pieces now extant, attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ ... and not included in the New Testament, by its compilers. London: William Hone, 1821. 8vo, xix[i] 251[1]pp untrimmed(hinges cracked) ; contemporary paper-backed boards with printed spine label (spine chipped, edges worn). Fourth edition.
908. Aradi (Zsolt): The Book of Miracles. London: Longmans Green [1957]. Plates. 8vo, xx 316pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First British edition.
909. Arnold-Forster (Frances): Studies in Church Dedications or England's Patron Saints. London: Skeffington & Son, 1899. Volume III only (of three). Large 8vo, [vii] 457pp + 4 List of Subscribers (front hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (spine rubbed & faded). Chiefly an Index of English parishes noting saints to which they are dedicated.
910. Attwater (Donald): The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1965]. 12mo, 362pp + [6]ads; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
911. Beal (William): An Analysis of Palmer's Origines Liturgicae; or Antiquities of the English Ritual; and of his Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies. Cambridge: John Deighton, 1850. 12mo, [iii] 128pp; cloth with printed cover label. First edition.
912. Bede: The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ... Edited by J A Giles. London: George Bell & Sons, 1884. Folding map frontispiece. 8vo, xliv 515[1]pp + endpaper ads (stain on title); decoratively blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine. "Fifth edition".
913. The Bible. Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. London: William Heinemann, ca1930s. 4to, xxxi 1237[1]pp (hinges cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (faded). Third edition.
914. Bloch (Marc): The Royal Touch. Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France. Translated [from French] by J E Anderson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1973]. Plates. Large 8vo, xi 441pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First English edition.
915. Bonner (Hypatia Bradlaugh): The Christian Hell from the First to the Twentieth Century. London: Watts & Co., 1913. Frontispiece (loose) + text illustrations. 12mo, x 148pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Issued for the Rationalist Press Association.
916. The Book of Mormon. An account of the Hand of Mormon upon Plates taken from the Plates of Hephi. "Translated" by Joseph Smith. London: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1965. Frontispiece + 2 plates. 8vo, [viii] 560pp; color pictorial wrapper.
917. Bouquet (A C): Comparative Religion. A Short Outline. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books [1945]. 12mo, 240pp; wrappers. One of the "Pelican Books".
918. Brandon (S G F), editor: The Saviour God. Comparative Studies in the Concept of Salvation Presented to Edwin Oliver James by Colleagues and Friends. [Manchester:] Manchester University Press [1963]. Portrait frontispiece 8vo, xxii 242pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. With prospectus + with compliments slip laid in. With ALS from E O James to Peter Opie (19 September 1963), discussing folkloric matters (with original mailing envelope). Slip of paper laid in with brief ink notes by Peter Opie, in preparation of sending a note of condolence to Mrs James.
919. Bready (J Wesley): England: Before and After Wesley. The Evangelical Revival and Social Reform. London: Hodder & Stoughton, ca1939. Frontispiece + plates. 8vo, 463pp; lettered cloth.
920. [Callaway (Henry): The Religious System of the Amazulu. London: Folk-Lore Society, 1884]. 8vo, 448pp lacking title-page and preliminary leaves (scattered foxing); gilt-lettered decorative cloth. Texts are given in the native South African dialect and an English translation, and include "The Tradition of Creation", "Ancestor Worship", "Heaven-Doctors", &.
921. Canton (William): A Child's Book of Saints. London: J M Dent [1907]. Double-page pictorial title + 14 full-page illustrations. 12mo, x[i] 253[1]pp; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth. Third printing in the "Everyman's Library for Young People".
922. Carpenter (J Estlin): Comparative Religion. London: Williams & Norgate, ca1910s. 12mo, 256pp + [8]ads (hinges cracked); gilt-lettered cloth. Issued in the "Home University Library of Modern Knowledge" series.
923. The Crimes of the Clergy, for the Pillars of Priest-Craft Shaken; with an Appendix, entitled the Scourge of Ireland. London: Benbow, 1823. Frontispiece. 8vo, [i] viii 240pp - xvi 60pp; later 3/4 morocco (dusty). An attack on the established church (with a lengthy 'mea culpa' from an early owner hand-written on title).
924. Cruden (Alexander): Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments. With Notes and Biblical proper names under one Alphabetical Arrangement. London: Lutterworth Press [1946]. 8vo, vii 783pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (chipped). This version was first published in 1930.
925. Dayal (Har): Twelve Religions and Modern Life. Edgware: Modern Culture Institute [1938]. 12mo, 250pp; wrappers (faded). First edition. Discusses Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Sufism and Positivism.
926. Dexter (T F G): The Sacred Stone. Treberran: New Knowledge Press, ca1930s. Text illustrations. 8vo, 39[1]pp; printed wrappers. Discusses Stonehenge and related monuments.
927. (Oversize) Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by James Hastings, with the co-operation of John A Selbbie. London: T & T Clark for The Waverley Book Company, 1910. Frontispiece portrait + plates + maps. 4to, xvi[ii] 992pp (hinges strengthened); gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, joints split). "Special Illustrated Edition". Signed on the front fly-leaf "C. A. Opie. Nov: 1914." (Peter Opie's uncle, Colin Opie, a minister).
928. Dummelow (J R), editor: A Commentary of the Holy Bible by Various Writers. London: Macmillan, 1913. 8vo, clii[iii] 1091[1]pp + maps (hinges cracked); gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed & soiled). First printed in 1909.
929. Ellison (Henry J): The Temperance Reformation Movement in the Church of England. London: Offices of the Church Temperance Society, 1878. Small 8vo, [ii] 218pp; gilt-lettered decorative cloth. "New Edition, with Additions and corrections".
930. The English Version of the Polyglot Bible containing the Old and New Testaments: with a copious and original selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages. London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, ca1890. Maps + charts. 8vo, vi[ii 214pp + 36 Index; flexible leatherette with yap edges (rather worn). Signed by Alfred Browning Stanley Tennyson (the poet's grandson), Christmas Day 1891.
931. Every (George): Christian Mythology. [London:] Hamlyn [1970]. Numerous illustrations (many in color). 4to, 141pp; lettered boards, pictorial dust jacket.
932. The First and Second Prayer-Books of King Henry the Sixth. London: J M Dent [1932]. Double-page decorative title. 12mo, xvi 463[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth. This "Everyman's Library" edition was first issued in 1910.
933. The First Prayer-Book of King Edward VI 1549. Reprinted from a copy in the British Museum. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh [1891]. 8vo, viii 295[1]pp; 3/4 morocco gilt. Issued in "The Westminster Library" series. With Gey Coat Hospital bookplate indicating this was a Catechism Prize in 1892.
934. Fletcher (Henry M), and Balme (E B Wheatley): Is the Use of Vestments under the Ornaments Rubric part of the Discipline which this Church has received? Letters between ... London: Rivingtons, 1883. Frontispiece (loose). Square 8vo, xv 179pp ((foxing); gilt-lettered cloth (spine worn). First edition. With Balme's printed "with compliments" slip tipped in.
935. Foxe's Book of Martyrs. London: Protestant Truth Society [1960]. Illustrations. Small 8vo, 96pp; color pictorial wrapper. Inexpensive modern edition of this anti-Catholic classic, written by John Foxe in the 16th Century.
936. (a-h) Fraser (J G): The Golden Bough. A Study of Magic and Religion. London: Macmillan, 1913-1915. Complete in 12 volumes (as below), with frontispiece in the first volume. 8vo, gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth (some wear, especially spine of 1st volume). Third edition, revised and enlarged. This landmark, monumental study comprises: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (2 vols), Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, The Dying God, Adonis Attis Osiris (2 vols), Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild (2 vols). The Scapegoat, Balder the Beautiful. The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul (2 vols) and Bibliography & General Index. With several slips of Opie notes laid in
937. Fraser (J G): The Golden Bough. A Study of Magic and Religion. London: Macmillan, 1950. Large 8vo, xiv 756pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Abridged edition in one volume. With Petersfield Bookshop's receipt made out to Mr Opie.
938. Fraser (J G): Aftermath. A Supplement to The Golden Bough.. London: Macmillan, 1936. 8vo, xx 494pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered and -decorative cloth matching the above set (but badly damp-stained). First edition.
939. Fraser (James George): Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. Studies in Comparative Religion Legend and Law. London: Macmillan, 1918. Complete in three volumes. Large 8vo, xxv 569pp + [1]ad - xxi[ii] 571pp - xviii[i] 566pp + [2]ads (partly unopened); gilt-lettered cloth (spotting and wear, especially in third volume). First edition. A study of the Hebrew Bible by the great folklorist.
940. The Gospel according to Saint Luke. In the Revised Version. With Introduction and Commentary by H Balmforth. Oxford: Clarendon Press [1933]. Illustrations. 8vo, viii 311[3]pp; gilt-lettered cloth (faded), with "Opie" gilt-stamped to cover. Second printing, as part of "The Clarendon Bible".
941. Great Religions of the World. By Herbert A Giles [et al]. London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. 8vo, [i] iii 300[1]pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Eleven essays by different scholars, each on a different religion.
942. Hannay (James Ballantyne): The Rise, Decline & Fall of the Roman Religion. London: privately printed for The Religious Evolution Research Society, 1925. Plates + text illustrations. 8vo, xiv 257pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
943. Harrison (Jane Ellen): Ancient Art and Ritual. London: Thornton Butterworth [1935]. 12mo, 256pp + [4]ads; lettered cloth (soiled). Fifth printing. Substantial Opie pencil notes on endpaper.
944. Heath (Sidney): The Romance of Symbolism and its Relation to Church Ornament and Architecture. London: Francis Griffiths, 1909. Frontispiece + 15 plates + text illustrations. 4to, xiv[i] 238pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition.
945. Helps to the Study of the Bible. With a General Index, a Dictionary of Proper Names, a Concordance, and a Series of Maps. Oxford: printed at the University Press, ca1900. Colored maps. 8vo, vii 578pp; gilt-lettered flexible leatherette (rubbed). Originally published as the Oxford Bible for Teachers.
946. The High History of the Holy Graal. Translated from the Old French by Sebastian Evans. London: J M Dent & Sons [1913]. Decorative double-page title. 12mo, xxii 379[1]pp; cloth, spine richly gilt (lightly soiled and rubbed). "Everyman's Library" edition of this important medieval text.
947. Hole (Christina): Saints in Folklore. London: G Bell & Sons [1966]. Text illustrations by T Every-Clayton. 8vo, xiv[i] 159pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First British edition.
948. James (E O): The Beginnings of Religion. An Introductory and Scientific Study. [London:] Arrow Books [1958]. 12mo, 159pp; wrappers. First published in 1948.
949. James (John), Rev: The Mother's Help toward Instructing her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services Appointed by the Church of England. London: J G F & Rivington, 1842. 12mo, xi[i] 534pp + [2]ads; polished calf, spine richly gilt (rubbed & chipped).
950. The Koran: commonly called the Alkoran of Mohammed. Translated into English from the Original Arabic. With explanatory notes taken from the most approved commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse. By George Sale. London: Frederick Warne, 1887. 8vo, xv 470pp + [6]ads (hinges cracked); cloth (spotted) with printed spine label. Issued in the "Chandos Classics" series.
951. The Koran (Qur'an). Translated by E H Palmer. With an Introduction by AR A Nicholson. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford [1936]. 12mo, xix 551pp + 16 ads; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First published in this "World's Classics" series in 1928.
952. Laver (James): Wesley. [Edinburgh:] Peter Davies, 1932. Frontispiece. 8vo, 167pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition. Biography of John Wesley.
953. Murray (Margaret Alice): The Genesis of Religion. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1963]. 8vo, v 88pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author. With added notation in ink: "Sent by Dr Murray on the book's publication in the author's hundredth year ... Peter Opie" (also with envelope addressed to the Opies (apparently from Dr Murray), which bears pencil notes for a reply).
954. (Oversize) Natalibus (Petrus de): Catalogus Sanctorum, Vitas, Passiones, & Miracula commondissime annectens ... Lyons: Egidium [Gilles] & Iacobum [Jacques] Huguetan, frates, 1542. Title with elaborate pictorial woodcut border (with text printed in red & black), full-page woodcut showing the Adoration of the shepherds + numerous smaller woodcut text illustrations (apparently 1st used in an edition published by Sacon in Lyons 1514). Folio, [iii] CLXXIXff (title with early annotations, scattered soiling, final leaf with marginal damage and mounted); early full calf, covers gilt-stamped with medallion decoration (spine chipped, upper joint cracked, general scuffing). An handsomely illustrated collection of lives of the saints, arranged according to the liturgical calendar. It was originally published in 1493. See Mortimer, French 16th Century Books 383-384. OCLC locates only two copies of our edition (University of Rochester + Loyola).
955. The Order for the Visitation and Communion of the Sick. Arranged as said. Intended chiefly for the use of the sick person and those who assist in the chamber. London: Thomas Pratt & Sons, 1875. Lithographed frontispiece. Square 8vo, 80pp + [8] ads for church supplies (hinges cracked); blind-stamped cloth (soiled). Second edition.
956. Piggott (Stuart): The Druids. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin [1974]. Plates. 12mo, viii[i] 193pp + [4]ads; pictorial wrappers.
957. Potter (John): Archaeologia Graeca: or, The Antiquities of Greece. London: H Knaplock, et al, 1740. Volume II only (of two), with several copper-engraved plates. 8vo, [iv] 420pp + [34]Indexes; contemporary calf (worn). "Sixth edition". The 2nd half of this volume is devoted to "Some of their Miscellany Customs" (pp160-420) which deals in large part with funeral and marriage customs (but also the role of woman and children in Greek society, &c).
958. Puckle (Bertram S): Funeral Customs. Their Origin and Development. London: T Werner Laurie, 1926. Wood-block vignette by John F Hunter on title (repeated on dust jacket) + plates. 8vo, 283pp + [4]ads; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine faded). First edition. An elegant trade publication.
959. Romanoff (H C): Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church. London: Rivingtons, 1868. 8vo, xiv[i] 429[1]pp + 15[1]ads; lettered decorative cloth (soiled, cocked). First edition.
960. Rowton (K L M): The Builders of the Church and Prayer-Book. London: National Society's Depository, 1912. Sixteen full-page illustrations. 8vo, ix[ii]324pp + [8]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (edges rubbed).
961. Shipley (Orby), editor: The Ritual of the Altar: containing the Office of Holy Communion, with Rubrical Directions, Private Prayers, and Ritual Music, according to the Use of the Church of England. London: Longmans, Green, 1870. 8vo, lviii 218pp + [2]ads; gilt-lettered decorative cloth (rubbed). First edition.
962. Staley (Vernon): The Catholic Religion. A Manual of Instruction for Members of the Anglican Communion. London: A R Mowgray & Co. [1952]. 12mo, vii[i] 418pp; gilt-lettered-cloth (faded). Twenty-seventh edition (first issued in 1893).
963. Strack (Hermann L): The Jew and Human Sacrifice. Human Blood and Jewish Ritual. An Historical and Sociological Inquiry. Translated from the 8th Edition with corrections, new Preface and additions by the Author. London: Cope & Fenwick [1909]. Large 8vo, 289pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spotted). First British edition. Scholarly attack on this old ant-Semitic accusation.
964. The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus Christ, and other Portions of the Ancient Holy Scriptures, now Extant, Attributed to His Apostles, and their Disciples ... and omitted from the Catholic and Protestant Editions of the New Testament. Translated from the original Tongues ... by Archbishop Wake, and other Learned Divines. London: E Hancock & Co., 1863. 8vo, iv 235[1]pp (loose in binding); gilt-lettered cloth (soiled, spine torn).
965. Tawney (R H): Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. A Historical Study. With a Prefatory Note by Dr Charles Gore. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books [1940]. 12mo, 294pp; wrappers. The 1922 Holland memorial Lecture.
966. Wakeman (Henry Offley): An Introduction to the History of the Church of England from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. London: Rivington, Percival, 1897. 8vo, xx 505pp + [1]ads; gilt-lettered cloth (extremities rubbed, top joint starting to fray). Fourth edition.
967. Wheeler (Post): The Sacred Scriptures of the Japanese. New York: Henry Schuman [1952]. Large 8vo, xlvi 562pp; lettered two-toned cloth, dust jacket (edges frayed). Study of the myths of Shintoism.
968. Wilkins (Eithne): The Rose-Garden Game. The Symbolic Background of the European Prayer-Beads. London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. Plates. 8vo, 239pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed to Iona Opie from the Opie, 16.VI.1974; with TNS to Iona from the author mentioning Maurice Sendak's Juniper Tree, &c (same date as inscription). Also with publisher's compliments slip requesting a review.

SEXUAL FOLKLORE

969. Baker (Margaret): Discovering the Folklore and Customs of Love and Marriage. [Aylesbury:] Shire [1974]. Illustrated. 12mo, 64pp; color pictorial wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. First edition.
Lilly Library GT2665 .B33
970. Beadnell (C M): The Origin of the Kiss and other Scientific Diversions. London: Watts [1942]. 12mo, x 117[1]pp; lettered cloth (a bit soiled). First edition. Amusing essays such as the title piece, "The Origin of Dancing", "Superstitions, Past and Present", &c. No 89 in "The Thinker's Library".
Lilly Library Q171 .B36
971. Bloch (Ivan): Sex Life in England Past and Present. Translated by William H Forstern. London: Francis Aldor [1938]. Color frontispiece + numerous plates. 8vo, xx 664pp; gilt-lettered cloth (a bit rubbed). First edition. Apparently limited to 1000 copies (this one unnumbered). Includes chapters on Flagellomania, Homosexuality, Sadism & Masochism, &c.
Lilly Library HQ18 .G7 B613 1938
972. Braude (Morris): Life Begins: Childbirth in Lore & Literature. Chicago: Argus Books, 1935. Plates. 8vo, [iv] 162[2]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Rare.
Lilly Library GT2460 .B7
973. Carter (Fred. Lee): "Gretna Green and the Arts" [in] The Print Collector's Quarterly, Vol 19, No 3. London: J M Dent & Sons, July, 1932. Plates. Small 8vo, pp[234]-252; printed wrappers. Iconography of the custom of clandestine marriages performed Gretna Green, Scotland in early 19th century.
Lilly Library DA890 .G8 C3
974. Cawadias (A P): Hermaphroditos. The Human Intersex. London: William Heinemann Medical Books, 1943. Plates. 8vo, ix 78pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library QP267 .C38
975. Crawley (Ernest): The Mystic Rose. A Study of Primitive Marriage. London: Macmillan, 1902. Large 8vo, xviii 492pp; gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. A serious early study, with two chapters on sexual taboo.
Lilly Library GN480 .C8 1920
976. Davenport (John): Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae; or, Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated. In Six Essays, viz: 1. Generation. 2 Chastity and Modesty. 3 Marriage. 4 Circumcision. 5 Eunuchism. 6. Hermaphrodism .... London: privately printed, 1875. Eight plates. 4to, xxviii[I] 216pp top edges gilt (endpapers stained); original leather-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered (worn). First edition. Punch cartoon mounted facing title.
Lilly Library HQ25 .D28
977. Davenport (John): Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction; with some account of the judicial "congress" as practiced in France during the Seventeenth Century. London: privately printed, 1869. Eight plates. 4to, xii 154pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; original leather-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered (edges a bit worn). First edition.
Lilly Library HQ12 .D3
978. Dawson (Warren R): The Custom of Couvade. [Manchester:] Manchester University Press, 1929. Frontispiece. 8vo, ix 118pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition. This wide-spread custom "requires that the father of a child, at or before birth ... should take to bed ... and behave generally as though he, and not his wife, were undergoing the rigours of confinement". With Opie manuscript not on endpaper.
Lilly Library GT2460 .D3
979. Delacourt (Marie): Hermaphrodite. Myths and Rites of the Bisexual Figure in Classical Antiquity. Translated from the French by Jennifer Nicholson. London: Studio Books [1961]. Plates. 8vo, xiii 109[1]pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First published in 1956.
Lilly Library GR489 .D413
980. Devereux (George): A Study of Abortion in Primitive Societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 pre-industrial societies. London: Thomas Yoseloff [1960]. 8vo, x[ii] 394pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (spotted). First British edition.
Lilly Library GN482.4 .D49
981. Dingwall (Eric John): The Girdle of Chastity. A Medico-Historical Study. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1931. Ten plates. 8vo, x 171pp; gilt-lettered cloth (spotted); dust jacket. First edition. The history of the chastity belt, with illustrations of surviving examples.
Lilly Library GT2810 .D5
982. Dingwall (Eric John): The American Woman. A Historical Study. London: Gerald Duckworth [1956]. Plates. 8vo, 286pp; lettered cloth (spotted), dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library HQ1410 .D5
983. Duffy (Maureen): The Erotic World of Faery. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1972]. Plates. Large 8vo, 352pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The sexual side of Faery folklore.
Lilly Library PR6054 .M4 E71 c.2
984. Eisler (Robert): Man into Wolf. An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy. With an Introduction By David K Henderson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1951]. 8vo, 286pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (soiled). First edition. A fascinating lecture delivered to the Royal Society of Medicine.
Lilly Library BF515 .E35 1951
985. Elliott (Robert): The Gretna Green Memoirs. With an Introduction and Appendix by the Rev . Caleb Brown. London: published by the Gretna Green Parson, 1842. Three lithographed plates including portrait frontispiece. Small 8vo, [vi-]xix 82pp; original gilt-lettered cloth. First edition. Accounts of the custom of clandestine marriages performed Gretna Green, Scotland in early 19th century.
Lilly Library DA890 .G8 E46 c.2
986. Engelmann (Geo. J): Labor among Primitive Peoples. Showing the development of the obstetric science of to-day from the natural and instinctive customs of all races, civilized and savage, past and present. St Louis: J H Chambers, 1884. Frontispiece + text illustrations. 8vo, xix 227pp; gilt-pictorial cloth. Third edition - revised, enlarged and re-arranged. Unusual.
Lilly Library GN482.1 E57
987. Fryer (Peter): Mrs Grundy. Studies in English Prudery. [London:] Corgi Books [1965]. Plates. 12mo, 414[2]pp; color pictorial wrapper. First paperback edition (originally published 1963.
Lilly Library DA115 .F7 1965
988. Goldberg (B Z): The Sacred Fire. The Story of Sex in Religion. London: Jarrolds, 1931. Text illustrations. Large 8vo, 287pp; lettered cloth (spotted), pictorial dust jacket (lightly soiled). Purports to be the first comprehensive study of the sex motif in all religions.
Lilly Library BL65 .S4 G6 1931
989. Graham (Harvey): Eternal Eve. [London:] William Heinemann Medical Books, 1950. Plates + text illustrations. Large 8vo, xx 699pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Women in myth, magic and medicine.
Lilly Library RG51 .F55 1950
990. Gray (Cecil and Margery): The Bed or the Clinophile's Vade Mecum. London: Nicholson & Watson [1946]. Decorative title. 8vo, 280pp; cloth-backed boards (faded). An anthology with an unusual perspective, from antiquity to modern times.
Lilly Library PN6071 .B38 G7 c.2
991. Henriques (Fernando): Prostitution and Society. A Survey. Volume I. Primitive, Classical and Oriental. London: McGibbon & Kee, 1962. Plates + chapter headpieces by Rosamund Seymour. 8vo, 438pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library HQ111 .H45 v.1
992. Hunt (Morton M): The Natural History of Love. London: Hutchinson [1960]. 8vo, [viii] 383pp; decorative cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (with add plain brown wrapper). First edition.
Lilly Library HQ12 .H75 1960
993. Jeaffreson (John Cordy): Brides and Bridals. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1872. Complete in two volumes. 8vo, vii362[1]pp - vii364pp; original gilt-lettered cloth (spine ends rubbed). First edition. A comprehensive study of the customs and folklore of marriage.
Lilly Library HQ613 .J4 v.1, v.2
994. Knight (Richard Payne): A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus and its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients ... (A New Edition). To which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers during the Middle Ages of Western Europe. London: privately printed, 1865 (reprinted 1894). Forty plates. 4to, xvi 254pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; original morocco-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered (edges rubbed). Limited to 500 copies (#462).
Lilly Library BL65 .S5 K74
995. Knight (M M), and Peters (Iva Lowther), and Blanchard (Phyllis): Taboo and Genetics. A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1921.8vo, xv 255pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library HQ21 .K6 1921
996. Langdon-Davies (John): A Short History of Women. London: Watts [1938]. 12mo, vii 244pp + [4]ads; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition as revised and enlarged for "The Thinker's Library" (No 72). Neat autograph inscription by Peter Opie by endpaper indicating the book was given to him by the Women's Home Defense in 1943 (the year he and Iona were married).
Lilly Library HQ1121 .L3 1938
997. Legman (G): The Horn Book. Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography. London: cape [1970]. 565[2]pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First British edition, with publisher's paste-over apology/correction on copyright page.
Lilly Library HQ458 .L4
998. Lewishsohn (Richard): A History of Sexual Customs. Translated by Alexander Mayce. London: Longmans [1958]. Plates. 8vo, xiv 424pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First English edition.
Lilly Library HQ12 .L42 1958
999. Malinowski (Bronislaw): The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. With a preface by Havelock Ellis. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. Numerous photographic plates. Large 8vo, xxiv 505[1]pp; cloth-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered, pictorial dust jacket, card slipcase. First edition. A detailed study.
Lilly Library HQ504 .M36
1001. [Marchant (W T): Betrothals & Bridals. With a Chat on Wedding Cakes & Wedding Favours. London: W Hill & Sons, 1879]. One color plate. Small 8vo, 175[1]pp + 23[1]ads lacking title-page; rear color pictorial wrapper (lacking front wrapper, spine worn). Housed in plain envelop captioned by the Opies. Apparent first edition, with chapters on all manner of marriage customs: "The Ring Finger", "Love-Tokens", "Wedding-Cakes", "The Honey-Moon", &c.
Lilly Library GT2665 .M3
1002. Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed: wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and people in the world ... London: privately printed, 1880. 8vo, 103[1]pp partly unopened; lettered boards. Rare. Lilly Library GT2660 .G213 1880 c.2
1003. Penzer (N M): Poison-Damsels and other Essays in Folklore and Anthropology. London: privately printed for Chas. J Sawyer, 1952. 4to,[v]319pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Four essays inspired by research on the Indian text, "The Ocean of Story", including one on "Sacred Prostitution".
Lilly Library GR265 .P4 1952
1004. Rossi (William A): The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1977]. Illustrated. 8vo, [v] 265pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First British edition. A survey of foot fetishism in different cultures.
Lilly Library HQ64 .R68 1977
1005. Scott (George Ryley): Phallic Worship. A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of all Races from Antiquity to the Present Day. London: privately printed for subscribers only by T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1941. Text illustrations + 24 plates. 8vo, xx 299pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; cloth with printed spine label, dust jacket with printed spine label (corners mended). First edition. Limited to 775 copies (#616) signed by the author.
Lilly Library BL460 .C35
1006. Sex Mythology including an Account of the Masculine Cross. London: privately printed, 1898. 8vo, [ii]64pp; vellum-backed boards. First edition, limited to 200 copies. The preface is signed Sha Rocco and dated 1874. Explains the meanings of ancient sexual myths and folklore.
Lilly Library BL460 .H8 1898
1007. Simons (G L): Sex and Superstition. London: Abelard-Schuman [1973]. 8vo, [vii] 200pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Describes sexual superstitions in both primitive and modern cultures.
Lilly Library HQ64 .S44
1008. Stiles (Henry Reed): Bundling. Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America. New York: Book Collectors Association , ca1920s. 8vo, 146pp + [6]ads for books of a sexual nature; lettered cloth (lightly rubbed and soiled). First published 1871 and often reprinted. A study of the early American custom of unmarried men and women sleeping together (fully clothed!).
Lilly Library GT2651 .S7 1934
1009. (Suttee). Human Sacrifices in India. Substance of the Speech of John Poynder, Esq. At the Courts of Proprietors of East India Stock held on the 21st and 28th Days of March, 1827. London: J Hatchard & Son, 1827. 8vo,vii 261pp + [2]ads; original 3/4 calf over marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered (rubbed). First edition. Impassioned attack on the custom of suttee or widow-burning. Together with a tipped-in ALS from the author to William Heseltine, May 1846 (12mo, 3pp) + a manuscript "Sonnet / Addressed to J Poynder Esq" (tipped onto rear endpapers). Provenance: William Heseltine, with his bookplate.
Lilly Library DS422 .S2 P7
1010. Taylor (G Rattray): Sex in History. London: Thames & Hudson [1953]. 8vo, [viii] 336; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Serious study, largely focusing on the effect of religious beliefs.
Lilly Library HQ12 .T3 1953
1011. Tennenbaum (Joseph): The Riddle of Sex. The Medical and Social Aspects of Sex, Love, and Marriage. With an Introduction by Vera Brittain. London: Routledge & Sons, 1930. 8vo, xiv 362pp; lettered cloth. First British edition, and first with Britain's introduction.
Lilly Library HQ21 .T4 1930
1012. Thompson (Edward): Suttee. A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Hindu Rite of Widow-Burning. London: George Allen & Unwin [1928]. Four plates. 8vo, 165pp + [2]ads; cloth with printed spine label. First edition.
Lilly Library DS422 .S8 T5
1013. Turner (E S): A History of Courting. London: Michael Joseph [1954]. Color frontispiece + text illustrations. 8vo, 290pp; lettered cloth (faded). First edition.
Lilly Library GT2650 .T85
1014. Wall (O A): Sex and Sex Worship (Phallic Worship). A Scientific Treatise on Sex, its Nature and Function, and its Influence on Art, Science, Architecture, and Religion - with Special Reference to Sex Worship and Symbolism. London: Henry Kimpton, 1919. Profusely illustrated. 4to, xv 607pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed, spine creased). First British edition.
Lilly Library BL460 .W2

SUPERSTITIONS

1014. Bergen (Fanny D), editor: Current Superstitions. Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk. With Notes, and an Introduction by William Wells Newell. Boston: The American Folk-Lore Society, by Houghton, Mifflin, 1896. 8vo, x 161pp + 6 (Folk-Lore Society matters) ; gilt-lettered cloth (spine faded). First edition, limited to 450 copies (#221).
1015. Donner (Cécile):, and Caradeau (Jean-Luc): Dictionary of Superstitions. Translated [from the French] by Richard LeFanu. London: Granada [1985]. Text illustrations. 4to, x 163pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First English edition.
1016. Harrison (Alec): Superstitions. [Havant: Kenneth Mason, 1972]. 16mo, 32pp; pictorial wrappers. In plain envelope captioned by the Opies. A "handbag book".
1017. Jahoda (Gustav): The Psychology of Superstition. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1970]. 12mo, [vii] 157[1]pp + [8]ads; pictorial wrappers.
1018. Knowlson (T Sharper): The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs. London: T Werner Laurie [1940]. 8vo, x 242pp + [17]ads; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. "New Edition" (54th thousand: first printed 1910). Signed in ink by Peter Opie on the fly-leaf, where he has also given the date (October 1941) and his address (fly-leaf unevenly browned).
1019. Opie (Iona), and Tatem (Moira), editors: A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Large 8vo, xiii[ii] 494pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Comprehensive.
1020. Platt (Charles): Popular Superstitions. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. 8vo, 244pp + [10]ads; pictorial boards (spine worn). First edition. "The nature and origins of every-day superstitions attractively explained".
1021. Radford (E & M A): Encyclopaedia of Superstitions. With a Foreword by Sir John Hammerton. London: Rider & Co [1948]. 8vo, 269pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (worn). ?First edition . Standard reference.
1022. Radford (E & M A): Encyclopaedia of Superstitions. Edited and revised by Christina Hole. London: Hutchinson [1961]. Large 8vo, 384pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket. First edition thus. Presentation copy inscribed by Ms Hole to Peter Opie.
1023. Vickery (Roy): Unlucky Plants. [London: The Folklore Society, 1985]. 8vo, [iii] 92pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition. Folklore Surveys #1. The results of a survey conducted by the Folklore Society.
1024. Waring (Philippa): A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions. London: Book Club Associates [1979]. 8vo,264pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket.

WEATHER AND FOLKLORE

1025. Claridge (John): The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years Experience. To which is added A Rational Account of the Causes of Such Alterations ... Edinburgh: printed for James Reid, bookseller in Leith, 1755. 12mo, viii 40pp disbound; laid into modern lettered wrappers. Housed in plain envelope captioned by the Opies. An early edition of this classic, first published in 1670.
Lilly Library QC995 .C53 1755
1026. Claridge (John): The Country Calendar or The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather ... Newly annotated by G H T Kimble. London: Sylvan Press [1946]. Wood-engraved illustrations by Margaret Webb. 12mo, 127pp; gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition thus, based on the 1827 edition of this classic (originally published in 1670).
Lilly Library QC995 .C53 1946
1027. Inwards (Richard), editor: Weather Lore. A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings and Rules Concerning the Weather. London: Elliot Stock, 1898. Folding frontispiece. 8vo, xii 233pp untrimmed; lettered cloth. "Third edition, Revised and Augmented". A fascinating compilation.
Lilly Library QC998 .I64
1028. Pointer (John): A Rational Account of the Weather. Shewing the Signs of its several changes and alterations ... collected, not only from common observations, but chiefly from some of the most approved authors, most celebrated philosophers, and the most judicious naturalists of this and former ages. London: Aaron Ward, 1738. 8vo, [ii] xxvi[ii], [25-]224pp (hinges cracked); contemporary calf (rather worn), gilt-lettered morocco spine label. "Second edition, corrected and much enlarg'd" (first printed 1723). With Opie pencil note on endpaper citing a reference in the Gentleman's Magazine identifying this work as a source for The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules (presumably in its later manifestations). Also with slip laid in bearing Opie bibliographical notes on this volume.
Lilly Library QC859 .P75 1738
1029. Taylor (Joseph): The Complete Weather Guide; A Collection of Practical Observations for Prognosticating the Weather; drawn from Plants, Animals, Inanimate Bodies ... including The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules ... London: Gale, Curtis & Fenner, 1813. Folding engraved frontispiece ("Flora's Dial"). 12mo, viii 160pp disbound. Housed in later plain envelope captioned by the Opies.
Lilly Library QC995 .T35 1813
1030. The Weather-Book. Three Hundred Plain Rules for Telling the Weather; by the Barometer, Thermometer, Hygrometer, Clouds, Winds, Animals, Plants, &c. London: Tilt & Bogue, 1851. 16mo, 64pp + 13[3]ads (front hinge cracked); gilt-lettered cloth. Owner's ink-stamp on fly-leaf ("The Grange, Alresford").
Lilly Library QC995 .W36 1841
1031. Wright (M E S): A Medley of Weather Lore. Collected by ... Bournemouth: Horace G Commin, 1913. Square 8vo, 144pp untrimmed; gilt-lettered cloth (discolored). First edition. Fascinating compendium of folk belief (e.g., "As many days of fog in March, so many days of frost in May, on corresponding days"), divided by the months of the year and identifying where possible the source.
Lilly Library QC998 .M49

WITCHCRAFT

1032. Bradley (Lionel): "A Mirror of Witches" [in] Ballet, Vol 12, No 5. London: Ballet Publications, May 1952. Photographic illustrations. 8vo, pp4-11; pictorial wrappers. Article on the Andrée Howard ballet based on the 1928 novel by Esther Forbes. With Opie slip folded over the cover identifying this article.
Lilly Library GV1790 .M6 B8
1033. Briggs (K M): Pale Hecate's Team. An Examination of the Beliefs on Witchcraft and Magic among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and his Immediate Successors. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1962]. Plates. 8vo, viii 291pp; lettered boards, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by the author (and noted folklorist) . With card laid in bearing Opie manuscript notes.
Lilly Library BF1581 .B8 c.2
1034. Cody (C S): The Witching Night. London: Transworld Publishers [1963]. 12mo, 253[1]pp; color pictorial wrappers. "A frightening novel of the supernatural".
Lilly Library PS3545 .A6 C671
1035. Compendium Maleficarum. Collected in 3 Books from many Sources by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo. Edited with Notes by the Rev Montague Summers. Translated by E A Ashwin. [London: Frederick Muller, 1970]. Illustrated. 4to, xxi 206pp; leather-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered, printed dust jacket (with mended tears). Facsimile reprint of the 1929 Rodker edition of this classic text, "showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race".
Lilly Library BF1520 .G813
1036. Demos (John Putnam): Entertaining Satan. Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. Oxford: Oxford University Press [1983]. 8vo, xiv 543pp; pictorial wrappers. First paperback printing.
Lilly Library BF1576 .D3
1037. European Witchcraft. [Edited by] E William Monter. New York: John Wiley & Sons [ca1969]. 8vo, 177pp; color pictorial wrappers. An anthology of writings about witches, both contemporary texts and academic studies. With slip laid in bearing Peter Opie's manuscript notes.
Lilly Library BF1581 .E83 1933
1038. Ewen (C L'Estrange): Witchcraft and Demonianism. A Concise Account Derived from Sworn Depositions and Confessions Obtained in the Courts of England and Wales. [London: Frederick Muller, 1970]. Eight plates. 8vo, 495pp; gilt-lettered leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the original 1933 edition, containing a wealth of documentation on witch trails.
Lilly Library BF1581 .E83 1933
1039. Fairfax (Edward): Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft as it was ... in the year 1621; along with the only two Eclogues of the same author ... with a Biographical Introduction, by William Grainge. Harrogate: R Ackrill, 1882. 8vo, 189[2]pp; original gilt-lettered cloth (dulled, extremities rubbed). First edition. Fairfax was a noted Elizabethan poet.
Lilly Library BF1581 .F1
1040. F[orsyth] (J S): Demonologia; or, Natural Knowledge Revealed; being an Exposé of Ancient and Modern Superstitions ... London: John Bumpus, 1827. 12mo, xvi 438pp partly disbound and loose in leather-backed boards (rubbed). A description of all manner of superstitious beliefs: amulets, astrology, ghosts, predictions, spells, &c, including witches and witchcraft (pp204-271). Substantial notes on endpapers.
Lilly Library BF1411 .F6 1827
1041. Garçon (Maurice), and Vinchon (Jean): Le Diable. Étude historique, critique et médicale. Paris: Gallimard, 1926. Small 8vo, 251[4]pp; printed wrappers (faded). Sixième édition" (same year as the first).
Lilly Library BF980 .G3
1042. Garden (Nancy): Witches. London: J M Dent & Sons [1977]. Illustrated. 8vo, 160pp; color pictorial boards. First British edition, issued as part of "The Weird & Horrible Library" series.
Lilly Library BF1566 .G2
1043. Gifford (George): A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcraftes. With an Introduction by Beatrice White. [Oxford:] published for The Shakespeare Association by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 8vo, x + unpaginated facsimile + [1]pp; lettered boards, glassine wrapper. First edition thus, a facsimile of the original 1593 edition. The first in a series of facsimiles of texts illustrating life and thought in Shakespeare's England.
Lilly Library BF1565 .G5 1931
1044. Hole (Christina): Witchcraft in England. London: B T Batsford [1945]. Illustrations by Mervyn Peake (including plates). 8vo, 167[1]pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket (mended) designed by Peake. First edition. Opie autograph note laid in, indicating they knew both Hole and Peake.
Lilly Library BF1581 .H6 c.2
1045. Hole (Christina): A Mirror of Witchcraft. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. Four plates. 8vo, 260pp; lettered cloth, color pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Focuses on witchcraft in 16th and 17th Britain.
Lilly Library BF1581 .H59 c.2
1046. Hole (Christina): A Mirror of Witchcraft. London: Pedigree Books, ca1960. 12mo, 254pp; color pictorial wrappers (creased). First paperback edition ("complete and unabridged") of the previous item, the serious nature of the text masked by a wonderfully lurid cover.
Lilly Library BF1581 .H59 M67
1047. Hyslop (Theo. B): The Great Abnormals. London: Philip Allan, 1925. Frontispiece. 8vo, xxvii 289[[3]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket (spine chipped, dusty). First edition. Contains "Witch Mania and Superstition" (pp83-102), as well as chapters on "Tyrants & Despots", "The Alchemists", "Visionaries", &c.
Lilly Library BF423 .H8 1925
1048. Leek (Sybil): The Complete Art of Witchcraft. London: Leslie Frewin [1975]. 8vo, 205[2]pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1506 .L44 1975
1049. Leland (Charles G): Aradia or the Gospels of the Witches. London: David Nutt, 1899. Pictorial title. 8vo, xv133[3]pp top edges gilt others untrimmed; lettered cloth (spotted). First edition. An account of the old nature religion of Italy, and of the role of "strege" (of fortune-tellers or witches).
Lilly Library BF1584 .I8 L5 c.2
1050. Kittredge (George Lyman): Witchcraft in Old and New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. Large 8vo, [ix] 641pp; gilt-lettered cloth (rubbed). First edition. The classic history of witchcraft in Colonial America.
Lilly Library BF1581 .K58 c.2
1051. Macfarlane (Alan): Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England. A Regional and Comparative Study. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1970]. Illustrated with facsimile plates, maps and diagrams. 8vo, xxi 334pp; lettered cloth (spotted), pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Lilly Library BF1581 .M26 1970
1052. Marshburn (Jospeh H): Murder & Witchcraft in England, 1550-1640. As Recounted in Pamphlets, Ballads, Broadsides, & Plays. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1971]. Plates. 8vo, xxvii 287pp + [1]colophon; letter cloth (lightly spotted). First edition.
Lilly Library HV6535 .E5 M37
1053. Merritt (Abe): Burn, Witch, Burn! London: Transworld [1963]. 12mo, 126pp + [2]ads; color pictorial wrappers. Horror novel, first published 1955.
Lilly Library PS3525 .E7 B9 1963
1054. Murray (Margaret Alice): The God of the Witches. London: Sampson, Low, Marston [1931]. Plates. 8vo, ix 214pp; lettered cloth, dust jacket (chipped). First edition. The first study of European witchcraft from the viewpoint of an anthropologist.
Lilly Library BF1566 .M8 c.2
1055. Murray (Margaret Alice): The God of the Witches. [Castle Hedingham:] Background Books [1962]. 8vo, vii 168pp; color pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition of the preceding text.
Lilly Library BF1566 .M8 1962
1056. Murray (Margaret Alice): The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. A Study in Anthropology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 8vo, 303[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First edition .
Lilly Library BF1566 .M9 c.2
1057. Murray (Margaret Alice): The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press [1962]. 8vo, 303[1]pp; wrappers. First Oxford paperback edition (see preceding item), and first with the Foreword by Sir Steven Runciman.
Lilly Library BF1581 .M8 1962
1058. Parrinder (Geoffrey): Witchcraft. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin Books [1958]. 12mo, 208pp; printed wrappers. First edition. "A critical study of the belief in witchcraft from the records of witch hunting in Europe yesterday and Africa today" (cover sub-title). With note card laid in bearing Peter Opie's manuscript catalogue description of this book.
Lilly Library BF1566 .P2
1059. Remy (Nicolas): Demonolatry ... in 3 Books. Translated by E A Ashwin. Edited with Introduction and Notes by the Rev Montague Summers. [London: Frederick Muller, 1970]. 4to, xliii188pp; leather-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered, printed dust jacket (dusty). Facsimile reprint of the 1930 Rodker edition of this classic text, detailing witchcraft trails in Lorraine in the 16th century.
Lilly Library BF1520 .R45 1970
1060. Robbins (Rossell Hope): The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. London: Peter Nevill [1960]. Many text illustrations. 4to, [iv] 571pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine gilt-lettered, color pictorial dust jacket. Presentation copy inscribed by the author and his wife. Together with a TLS to Peter & Iona Opie from the author, 14 October 1963, discussing personal and folkloric matters (8vo, 2pp).
Lilly Library BF1502 .R6 1959
1061. Robbins (Rossell Hope): "The Synthetic Sabbat" = typescript of a paper given to the Folk-Lore Society, 19 February 1964, 4to, 20pp, together with a TNS ("Ross") to Peter and Iona [Opie], 6 April 1964, sending this typescript. Housed in original mailing envelope (with following items). Also with TLS ("Ross") to the Opies, Easter, 1964, discussing personal matters (12mo, 2pp) + ANS from Robbins's wife inviting the Opies to a party, together in their original mailing envelope
1062. (Oversize) Scot (Reginald): The Discoverie of Witchcraft. With an Introduction by the Rev Montague Summers. Np: John Rodker, 1930. Folio, xxxvii 282[1]pp top edges gilt others untrimmed (hinges cracked); original leather-backed cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered (extremities rubbed, some fading). First edition thus, limited to 1275 copies (#158) printed on Dutch paper and edited by this eccentric scholar. With publisher's prospectus and advertising card laid in. Originally published 1584, it was written to expose the credulity of those who believed in sorcery and prevent the persecution of individuals as witches. It was also the first book in English to contain practical feats of conjuring. Together with three pages of manuscript notes by Peter Opie, citing specific pages (4to, 3ff).
Lilly Library BF1565 .S4 1930
1063. Scott (Sir Walter): Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J G Lockhart. London: John Murray, 1930. Small 8vo, [iii]ix 402pp lacking frontispiece; early full polished, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First edition. Published in the Family Library series (#16).
Lilly Library PR5313 .L4 c.3
1064. Starkey (Marion L): The Devil in Massachusetts. A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials. [London:] Trust Books [1963]. 12mo, 207[1]pp; pictorial wrappers.
Lilly Library BF1576 .S8 1963
1065. Summers (Montague): The History of Witchcraft and Demonology. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926. Eight plates. Large 8vo, xv 353pp + 16 ads; gilt-lettered cloth (a bit spotted), printed dust jacket. First edition. A detailed history, issued as part of "The History of Civilization" series edited by C K Ogden.
Lilly Library BF1566 .S82 1926
1066. Summers (Montague): Witchcraft and Black Magic. London: Rider & Co [ca1945]. Sixteen plates. 8vo, 228pp; lettered cloth (soiled, rubbed). Provenance: St John & Red Cross Hospital Library, with bookplate and spine number.
Lilly Library BF1566 .S86 c.2
1067. Szasz (Thomas S): The Manufacture of Madness. A comparative study of the inquisition and the mental health movement. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1971]. 8vo, xxvii 383[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, printed dust jacket. First British edition. A controversial work, with much attention to the persecution of witches.
Lilly Library RC438 .S92 1971
1068. Tatem (Moira): The Witches of Warboys. [Cambridgeshire: Cambridgeshire Libraries Publications, 1993. Illustrated. 8vo, viii 80pp; pictorial wrappers. First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author. Description of a notorious case of purported witchcraft in the late 16th century.
Lilly Library BF1581 .T2
1069. Thomas (Jack): Witches - Stay Away from My Door. London: Wolfe [1967]. Illustrated. 12mo 92[4]pp; color pictorial wrappers. Popular work on witch-craft: historical background, spells, cures, &c, and how to become a witch.
Lilly Library BF1566 .T46
1070. Thompson (R Lowe): The History of the Devil. The Horned God of the West. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1929. Plates. 8vo, xiv 171[1]pp; gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket (spotted). First edition. A wide-ranging history of the devil in Western though, with chapters on witchcraft and magic.
Lilly Library BT980 .T5
1071. Trevor-Roper (H R): "Witches and Witchcraft. An Historical Essay (II)" [in] Encounter, Vol XXVIII, No 6. [London] June 1967. 4to, pp13-34; pictorial wrappers. First printing of this essay by this important British historian.
Lilly Library BF1566 .T8
1072. Trevor-Roper (H R): The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries. [Harmondsworth:] Penguin [1969]. 12mo, 144pp; pictorial wrappers. First separate printing of this study (slightly revised), which had previously appeared in the author's Religion, the Reformation and Social Change (1967).
Lilly Library BF1571 .T7
1073. The Witch Figure. Folklore Essays by a Group of Scholars in England Honouring the 75th Birthday of Katharine M Briggs. Edited by Venetia Newall. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul[1973]. Frontispiece portrait + text illustrations. 8vo, xiii 239pp; lettered cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A collection of 11 essays centering on witches, preceded by an Appreciation of Ms Briggs by Ruth Michaelis-Jena.
Lilly Library BF1566 .W737
1074. Witch Hunting and Witch Trails. The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizes held for the Home Circuit AD 1559-1736. Collected and Edited by C L'Estrange Ewen with an Introduction. [London: Frederick Muller, 1970]. Seven plates. 8vo, xiii 345pp; gilt-lettered leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the original 1929 edition, containing a wealth of documentation on witch trails.
Lilly Library BF1581 .E8 1971
1075. Witch Stories. Collected by E Lynn Linton. [London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1974]. 8vo, [ii] iv 428pp + [13]index; gilt-lettered boards, pictorial dust jacket, Facsimile reprint of the original 1861 Chapman & Hall edition of this important study, with a newly added index.
Lilly Library BF1581 .L7
1076. Wright (Harry B): Witness to Witchcraft. London: Transworld Publishers [1958]. Plates. 12mo, 221[3]pp; color pictorial wrappers. Popular and rather sensationalistic treatment of the subject.
Lilly Library GN475 .W7 1958