A Collection of Highland Rites and Customes. Copied by Edward Lhuyd from the manuscript of Rev James Kirkwood (1650-1709) and annotated by him with the aid of the Rev John Beaton. Edited by J.L Campbell. From MS Carte 269 in the Bodleian Library.

  • Campbell, J.L. (ed.)
  • : Published by D.S. Brewer Ltd and Rowman and Littlefield for the Folklore Society 1975

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Description

8vo, pp. [vi], 117, [1]. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in green and red. Binding and dustjacket a little sunned to spine, top edge of dustjacket rolled.

Notes

First published in the US by Rowman and Littlefield, this is the Folklore Society edition of texts that explore Highland traditions and ceremonies as well as the concept of second sight, edited by historian and folklorist John Lorne Campbell (1906-1996). Scarce in dustjacket.

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