CARMICHAEL COLLECTS CALEDONIAN CUSTOMS
Carmina gadelica: hymns and incantations with illustrative notes on words, rites, and customs, dying and obsolete: orally collected in the highlands and islands of scotland and translated into english.
Edinburgh.
Printed for the Author by T. and A. Constable, 1900.
First edition.
Quarto.
One of 300 copies. In two volumes. [2], xxxii, 339, [1]; [2], xi, [1], 350pp, [2]. With half-titles and a portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Original publisher's cream paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, printed cream dustwrappers. A trifle rubbed, dustwrappers worn, marked, and discoloured. Internally immaculate.
The first edition, in the rarely seen dustwrappers, of the main work of folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912).
The Carmina Gadelica collects a plethora of hymns, incantations, blessings, folkloric poems, songs, and proverbs preserved in both oral and literary tradition and originating in the Gàidhealtachd regions of Scotland. Initially welcomed, the work soon drew detractors and accusations that Carmichael had over-edited the source material.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 33256
The Carmina Gadelica collects a plethora of hymns, incantations, blessings, folkloric poems, songs, and proverbs preserved in both oral and literary tradition and originating in the Gàidhealtachd regions of Scotland. Initially welcomed, the work soon drew detractors and accusations that Carmichael had over-edited the source material.
