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Condizione: Very Good. Cover has some light wear and creases from use.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Possible FIRST OR EARY EDITION. A VERY GOOD Volume, VII. Dark brick colored cloth with gilt embossed F.L.S. emblem (Folk Lore Society) on front cover; gilt spine title with 1912 date and F.L.S. on foot of spine cloth. Original black end-papers in place; the front free end-paper has a 2" closed tear at gutter (does not detract). Map frontispiece. A faint price stamp on title page (c.1914!) Map frontispiece is present. Illustrated with 11 pages of archival photographs. Weak (but tight) front hinge; gently bumped corners and spine edges. Awesome collection of source material for scholars of Personal Legends; Ballads and Songs; Traditional Narratives: Customs; Witchcraft; Superstitions; Rhymes and Sayings. and much more. 419 pages that includes a large Appendix from the ms. collection of David Rorie, M.D./ Heavy volume.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Acceptable. First Edition, First Printing. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket has a mylar plastic cover which shows some very light shelf wear. Dust jacket itself shows some fading from age as well as some rubbing, scuffing and small marks. Dust jacket also shows edge wear including creasing, browning, chipping and shelf wear. Book itself shows some sunning, rubbing, scuffing and shelf wear. Pages show some browning from age.

Condizione: Very Good. 194, b/w illus. . PB. Wrappers. Vg. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History Vol. 6 (6). Five papers concerning the Sowerby family, 18th-19th century naturalists. Papers include; The Sowerby Collection in the British Museum (Natural History); Biographical sketch of James Sowerby; Childhood reminiscences of James Sowerby; The Sowerbys, the Mineral conchology, and their fossil collection; A provisional bibliography of natural history works by the Sowerby family.Together with Supplementa Sowerbiana, issued as a Supplement to Bernard Quartitch's Catalogue No. 894, 1969, pp 20.

20pp. (11+2+3+1+2+1), foolscap 8vo, with a further four pages of figures. Stapled, with front cover printed in black, red and blue, carrying stylised design of satellite design. Cover stamped with date 4 June 1968. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copies on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. From the Pat Hawker archive.