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The Age of Fable; or Beauties of Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-/none
- Seller
-
San Rafael, California, United States
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About This Item
This 157 year-old book collects fables and myths from many places. Engravings throughout. Index in the rear.
Binding is bumped, rubbed and scuffed. Spine cloth has been repaired and dark brown endpapers suggest rebinding. Hinge is cracked but intact. spine ends frayed and corners bumped. Pages show some soiling and foxing with age.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.
Synopsis
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths, and the age of chivalry have been known. The forerunner of such interpreters as Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves, Thomas Bulfinch wanted to make these stories available to the general reader. A series of private notes to himself grew into one of the single most useful and concise guides to literature and mythology. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and The Legends of Charlemagne or The Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town Books of San Anselmo
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 551
- Title
- The Age of Fable; or Beauties of Mythology
- Author
- Thomas Bulfinch
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth with gilt titles and cover design
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.E. Tilton & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1866
- Pages
- 488
- Size
- 5 1/2 x 8
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mythology, fables, gods and goddesses, Greek mythology, Roman Mythology
Terms of Sale
Town Books of San Anselmo
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About the Seller
Town Books of San Anselmo
Biblio member since 2020
San Rafael, California
About Town Books of San Anselmo
Town Books is run by volunteers for the benefit of the San Anselmo Library, San Anselmo, CA. All titles are donated and go through a thorough accession process to ensure that the books are clean and in a good reading state. Selected titles of rare and vintage books are reserved for our online sales with Biblio.com.
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- Cloth
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