Item #63208 Russian Folk-Tales [ Folk Tales ]. Russian Folk-Tales, W. R. S. RALSTON.
Russian Folk-Tales [ Folk Tales ].

Russian Folk-Tales [ Folk Tales ].

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 382pp. Original red cloth with gilt titling to spine, black borders to boards, index. The first edition of this collection of Russian folk-tales and ghost stories edited by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828-1889), who, while employed at the printed-book department of the British Museum as a copyist, studied Russian language and literature in order to catalogue the Russian books at the museum. Contents: Introduction; Mythological - Principal Incarnation of Evil; Mythological - Miscellaneous Impersonifications; Magic and Witchcraft; Ghost Stories; Legends - Saints; Legends - Demons. Cloth lightly rubbed and darkened with a few faint spots, light bumps and rubbing to edges of boards, spine ends and corners lightly bruised and chafed, spine darkened and has a few tiny tears at top, pages lightly browned, rear endpapers split at gutter (hinge solid). Despite minor wear - a tight, clean VG copy. Item #63208

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