1862 Popular Tales of the West Highlands : J. F. Campbell (Vol 4) Dragon Fairies

Popular Tales of the West Highlands; Orally Collected

With a translation by J. F. Campbell

Published by Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1862. Volume IV only. Hardback, decorative cloth binding, 8vo, 480 pages included the index.

CONDITION
A good copy of volume 4 of the first edition. The cloth binding is good with light grubbiness. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages good throughout. No writing or names to the book. Overall a very good copy.

Popular Tales of the West Highlands is a four-volume collection of fairy tales, collected and published by John Francis Campbell, and often translated from Gaelic. Alexander Carmichael was one of the main contributors. The collection in four volumes was first published in 1860–62 in Edinburgh. A new edition (with different pagination) appeared under the auspices of the Islay Association in 1890–93. Campbell dedicated the work in 1860 to the son of my Chief, the Marquess of Lorne.

Volume IV, subtitled "Postscript", contained miscellany. The greater part of it was devoted to commentary on the Ossian controversy, the rest filled with descriptions of traditional costume, music, and lore on supernatural beings. More West Highland Tales (1940) was later published, provided with translations by John Gunn McKay.

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