NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE - Drake, 1st 1884 FOLKTALES FABLES LORE MYTHS ELVES & GNOMES Man and name

Man and name

this issue contains two stories - Phillip Baker's "Her Secret Lover" and Renin's "The Madcap of Paris

Guyot was accused of exploiting and revealing the tricks used at the time by magicians and science popularizers like Nicolas-Philippe Ledru and François Pelletier

spiritual and physical manifestations of disease

Old pencil on first blank page of former owner

NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE - Drake, 1st 1884 FOLKTALES FABLES LORE MYTHS ELVES & GNOMES Man and nameA BOOK OF NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE IN PROSE AND POETRY Book Details + Condition: Roberts Brothers (Boston). First Edition, 1884. Scarce. Hardcover with embossed decorated boards depicting witches on brooms. Gilt title (etc) on front and spine. The work is a collection of folklore in prose and poetry from the beginning of the settlement of New England to the late 19th century. The author, Samuel Adams Drake, believed that storytelling could