Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry
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Overview:
- Title: Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry
- Author: Allan Cunningham
- Year: 1887
- Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
- Price: 1/-
- Pages: 288
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Haunted Ships
- Notes:
The stories in this collection were (with the exception of the first) originally published in the London Magazine over the course of some years (dates unknown by this researcher) prior to being released in a 2 volume edition in 1822. Both volumes of material are combined here in a single publication.
The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive. The full text and images of this edition are available at Google Books. Both digital copies, from different print copies, include front and back covers and free endpapers (that is, 8 pages). In the copy at Google Books, from original at the Bodleian Library, those pages are legible in full.
"Morley's Universal Library" is named on the front cover and half-title page. It is listed on the front free endpaper and t.p. verso, 56 volumes numbered 1 to "56. Traditional Tales. Allan Cunningham." "Routledge's Excelsior Series of Standard Authors" is listed on the back free endpaper and back inside cover.
Price is from the inside front cover, also on Morley's: "Fifteen Volumes in an Oak Bookcase", price one guinea (21/-); "In Monthly Volumes, One Shilling Each."
Month of publication is not stated, unless on the spine. The Introduction, p[5]-8, closes "H. M." and "November 1887".