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The Works Of Lewis Morris: The Physicians Of Myddfai
by Lewis Morris
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Original 1890 Very Good First Edition Hardcover Clean 500 pp. free of annotations. No writing. NO book plates. Frontis with portrait of Lewis Morris and tissue, Except for minor shelf wear and a little foxing excellent shape. Tight binding Clean endpapers and text Among the dozens of poems and tales is the ten page Welsh Fairy tale "The Physicians Of Myddfai" A story of a man who wins for a wife one of the Tylwyth Teg, a Fairy Woman of the Lake. She tells him "to never strike her three times". He does and her descendants in Medieval Britain become physicians who leave healing prescriptions in the "real" world!! This retelling here is brilliant. Gilt spine titles See our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90005721
- Title
- The Works Of Lewis Morris
- Author
- Lewis Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- physicians of myddfai fairy woman morris gwynedd north wales welsh celtic fairies welsh the physicians of myddfai lake fairy wales poetry tylwyth teg victorian wales breton poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- Welsh; Celtic Studies; Cornish/Brittany/Isle Of Man; Megalithic/Goddess/Geomancy;
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