Item #002510 The Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland. William Grant Stewart.
The Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland
The Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland

The Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland

London: Aylott and Jones. Hardcover. 12mo. Very Good. Item #002510

[1851] New Edition, revised. Publishers brown cloth, re-backed in burgundy leather, gilt lettering, new endpapers. xiv, 203 pp., frontispiece, with faint ink inscription on recto, small ownership signature to head of title page, bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown, corners rounded with wear, some light sunning to boards, otherwise a bright and tight copy. The author discusses Highland ghosts, fairies, brownies, kelpies, witchcraft and its origins, as well as Highland festivities from Halloween, Christmas, and Beltane.

Price: $275.00