Title: Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore
Author: M. A. Courtney (Margaret Ann Courtney)
Edition: First book edition, 1890
Format: Hardcover (brown cloth, gilt spine lettering)
Publisher: Beare and Son (Penzance)
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: —
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1890
Genre: Folklore, Cornish Local History, Customs
Condition: Good
Description:
Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore is a Victorian study of the customs and traditions of West Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, who also wrote a glossary of West Cornwall dialect words. It was revised and reprinted from her papers in the Folk-Lore Society’s journals of 1886–87, and it was published in Penzance by Beare and Son in 1890. The book records the parish feasts and saints’ days of Penwith and the “feasten” customs that went with them, together with seasonal traditions and local folk-lore, including Hallowe’en customs and Cornish “Ringing Night”. It is bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. The spine head is worn and the cloth rubbed. It is an early record of Cornish folk life for collectors of Cornish books, folklore and local history.
Title: Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore
Author: M. A. Courtney (Margaret Ann Courtney)
Edition: First book edition, 1890
Format: Hardcover (brown cloth, gilt spine lettering)
Publisher: Beare and Son (Penzance)
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: —
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1890
Genre: Folklore, Cornish Local History, Customs
Condition: Good
Description:
Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore is a Victorian study of the customs and traditions of West Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, who also wrote a glossary of West Cornwall dialect words. It was revised and reprinted from her papers in the Folk-Lore Society’s journals of 1886–87, and it was published in Penzance by Beare and Son in 1890. The book records the parish feasts and saints’ days of Penwith and the “feasten” customs that went with them, together with seasonal traditions and local folk-lore, including Hallowe’en customs and Cornish “Ringing Night”. It is bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. The spine head is worn and the cloth rubbed. It is an early record of Cornish folk life for collectors of Cornish books, folklore and local history.
