A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Edited by W.B. Yeats
Crown Publishers
Year: 1986
704 pages; black-and-white illustrations
ISBN 051748904X
This is a used hardcover book with dust jacket in Very Good condition. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Pages clean, binding secure. Dust Jacket VG+
From the blurb:
Yeats selected the best tales from the work of many expert writers and from his own research. He has grouped these stories of supernatural beings by category -- trooping fairies, solitary fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, fairy doctors, the Devil, and giants -- and describes their attributes, habits, and customs in wonderful introductory passages to each section. There is poetry, too, in Lady Gregory's simple but powerful retelling of the Cuchulain legend from the ancient stories of the Ulster cycle of myth.
The intriguing illustrations in this volume have been selected from numerous sources. They represent richly varying views of the Cuchulain myth and several artists' visions of the spry, elfin, and demonic creatures of Irish imagination.
