1867 Lancashire English Folklore Occult Pagan

1867 Lancashire English Folklore Occult Pagan Superstitions Narrative Literature

John Roby (1793–1850) was an English banker, poet, and writer. Roby’s book ‘The Traditions of Lancashire’ was an influential, two-volume study on English folklore. The book was a success with the upper classes, and was reprinted within a year. Nevertheless, readers did not believe that a banker could have written the books, and speculation named several others as the real author. Roby sided with the Romanticists and saw folklore as defective and lowly. He collected folk stories and rewrote them into coherent tales in a more refined style. Roby's works were celebrated in their time, and later folklorists referred to them until the 1870s.

This 1867 edition is bound in two volumes and over 20 full page black and white and numerous in text illustrations!

Item number: #7304

Price: $499

ROBY, John

Traditions of Lancashire

London, George Routledge, 1867.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

2 volumes

Vol. 1: [xviii], 10, 465, [2]

Vol. 2: [7], 441, [2]

Over 20 illustrations

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~11.5in X 9.5in (29.5cm x 24.5cm)

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Condition Report: Excellent.