Dendy (Walter Cooper) Legends of the Lintel and the Ley
£160
London, Bell & Daldy, 1863.
First edition. 8vo. Original tooled brown cloth.
A compilation of imaginative representations of folk- & later tales. Uncommon.
In stock
Occasional marking to pages; cloth rebacked preserving original backstrip, some bumping and rubbing, minor water speckling.
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