Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Overview:

  • Title: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
  • Author: W. B. Yeats
  • Year: 1888
  • Publisher: Walter Scott
  • Pages: xviii+326
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Soul Cages
  • Notes:
    • First edition.
    • Title page states "Edited and selected by W. B. Yeats."
    • The text is followed by 6 unnumbered pages of advertisements.
    • In this first edition, all names beginning with "Mc" are printed with a superscript c that has often been mistaken for an apostrophe and appears as such in numerous reprintings and secondary sources.
    • Data from Archive.org scan.