SCANDINAVIAN FOLK-LORE BY WILLIAM A. CRAIGIE 1896 FIRST EDITION

[CRAIGIE, WILLIAM A.]. Scandinavian Folk-Lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the Northern Peoples. Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.

FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 13 x 4 cm); pp. xx, [9]-554 [i.e. 454]. Errors in pagination. English text. Bound in publisher's original cloth; half-title; notes and index. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Darkening to spine cloth. Interior well-preserved and without previous ownership markings. Scarce.

Notes: Rare first edition of this important anthology compiled, selected, and translated by the renowned Scottish philologist and lexicographer Sir William A. Craigie. Published by Alexander Gardner in Paisley and London. The work serves as a comprehensive, English-language sourcebook compiling over a thousand years of traditional stories, legends, and supernatural beliefs from across Scandinavia.