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BRAND, John. Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the whole of Mr. bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also an appendix, Containing such Articles on the Subject, as have been omitted by that Author.

London. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810.
8vo. xxiv, 471pp, [1]. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, brown cloth boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Rubbed, spine dulled. Book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting.
An early nineteenth century edition of a popular work by English antiquarian and clergyman John Brand (1744-1806), incorporating the Popular Antiquities (1725) of Henry Bourne. Later revised further by Sir Henry Ellis, the term 'popular antiquities' would eventually be replaced with the expression 'folklore', making the title a little opaque to a modern audience.

From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 32965