Price: £275
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1938
Stock Number: 74148
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 41, crown 8vo, original buff wrappers, these detached but the textblock secure. some light soiling overall and a touch of corner-creasing, good
Publication Details: Keighley: [Printed for the Author at Wadworth & Co., The Rydal Press,] 1938
Notes: Inscribed to the front 'With the author's compliments'.A scarce study of 'the legends and beliefs of my native land' in respect of the 'fairy hordes', who have over centuries been, for young folk, 'companions and their first and best teachers'. Macdonald considers the literary tradition of such entities, with reference in particular to Robert Kirk, Minister of Aberfoyle (his 'Secret Commonwealth' compiled in the seventeenth-century but not published until the nineteenth) and in conclusion reflects that the modern world cannot admit the capacity for clairvoyance that seems to be nurtured by pa...more
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