NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE - Drake, 1st 1884 FOLKTALES FABLES LORE MYTHS ELVES & GNOMES Guyot was accused of exploiting

Guyot was accused of exploiting and revealing the tricks used at the time by magicians and science popularizers like Nicolas-Philippe Ledru and François Pelletier

Old pencil on first blank page of former owner

All are first editions

this issue contains two stories - Phillip Baker's "Her Secret Lover" and Renin's "The Madcap of Paris

NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE - Drake, 1st 1884 FOLKTALES FABLES LORE MYTHS ELVES & GNOMES Guyot was accused of exploitingA BOOK OF NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE IN PROSE AND POETRY Book Details + Condition: Roberts Brothers (Boston). First Edition, 1884. Scarce. Hardcover with embossed decorated boards depicting witches on brooms. Gilt title (etc) on front and spine. The work is a collection of folklore in prose and poetry from the beginning of the settlement of New England to the late 19th century. The author, Samuel Adams Drake, believed that storytelling could