Credulities Past and Present Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck

Jones, William. Credulities Past and Present Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1880. First edition. 8vo. xii, 560pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards with finely gold-tooled spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece illustration depicting the “Trial of a Pig at Lausanne in the 14th Century.” Engaging compendium of superstitions and legends collected and compiled by the Victorian antiquarian, William Jones.

Rear board and rear endpaper as well as free front endpaper detached but present. Front board held in place by brown binders tape along gutter at endpapers. Age wear and staining on binding. Water staining to top area of first few leaves affecting frontispiece. Rippling to leaves. Tiny closed tears on fore-edge of few leaves. Binding in poor, interior in overall fair condition. poor. (33933) $65