Studies in Folk Life: Essays in honour of Iorwerth C. Peate.
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii + 344 pp. Green cloth with gilt titling to red label on spine; frontis; b&w illustrations; bibliography; index. A festschrift in honour of the great folklorist Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, etc. "In the present book all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history, are covered, reflecting the wide interests of Dr. Peate and his valuable contribution to the development of the study of traditional life in Britain." Essays comprise: Fenland Peat; Sea Sand and Shells as Manure; Sheep in North Ronaldsay, Orkney; The Welsh Plough Team to 1600; The 'Rope-wood' and its European Distribution; The Tweed Salmon Coble; The 'great wheel' in the Scandinavian Countries; Investigation of an Industry and its Products; The Supernatural in Welsh Place-names; and Prefixed Pronominal Forms in a Welsh Dialect. Bibliography of Books and Papers by Iorwerth C. Peate. A little canted, otherwise, a tight and bright VG + copy in VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket lightly rubbed with small tears along edges.). Item #9765
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