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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry:

Edited and Selected by W.B. Yeats. [The Camelot Series].

Stock Code 110122

London, Walter Scott, 1888

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The first edition, later state of Yeats' first published work as editor, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, issued as no. 32 of The Camelot Series. The majority of the tales presented were collected in the nineteenth century by folklorists such as William Allingham, T. Crofton Croker, Douglas Hyde, and Lady Wilde, mother of the playwright Oscar Wilde.

First edition, later state; small 8vo (17 x 12.5 cm); 6pp. publisher's ads. to rear; publisher's red cloth, upper cover with design stamped in black, gilt title-piece to spine, spine faded, minor wear to extremities; xviii, [2], 326, [6]pp.

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry:

YEATS, W.B.

Stock code: 110122

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