Feughside Fairy Tale : Grant : Deeside Folklore, Scotland : Lewis Spence : Poem

A Feughside Fairy Tale

By David Grant

With an Introduction by Lewis Spence

Published Aberdeen, William Smith and Son, Bon-Accord Press, 1935. First Edition. Scarce hardcover edition with original paper wraps bound in.

An interesting Scottish folklore title in verey good condition. The boards and spine are very good. The original wraps are bound in with the book. Pages very clean throughout. Overall a very good clean copy.

David Grant was born in 1823 in the parish of Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire, and was educated at Aberdeen University. He became a teacher in 1852, and for some time kept a school at Elgin, Moray. In 1861, he was appointed French master in Oundle grammar school, Northamptonshire. In 1865, he became assistant master of Eccleshall College, a private school near Sheffield. Subsequently, he purchased a day school in Sheffield, which proved a failure, and in 1880 he had to retire from his charge penniless. From that date till his death in 1886 he acted as a private tutor in Edinburgh. He published Metrical Tales at Sheffield in 1880, and Lays and Legends of the North at Edinburgh in 1884. A Book of Ten Songs, with music, with a preface by Professor Blackie, appeared after his death. His poems evince a sense of humour, and he had considerable narrative power in verse.

James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. He founded the Scottish National Movement.

(Loc: Desk; Lower shelf )