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Author: CROKER, Thomas Crofton.
Title: Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. A new and complete edition edited by Thomas Wright with Illustrations by Maclise and Green.
Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1902.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: 352 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good gilt decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, gift note of a previous 1903 owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the in-text illustrations by Maclise and Green. 

The book: Nice and attractive edition of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland -- Although Fairy Legends purported to be an anthology of tales Croker had collected on his field trips, he had lost his manuscript notes and the work had to be reconstructed with the help of friends.

The author: Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 – 8 August 1854) was an Irish antiquary, best known for his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825–1828), and who also showed considerable interest in Irish song and music.