The Classic Myths in English Literature and Art: Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855), New Edition Revised and Enlarged
by GAYLEY, Charles Mills
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Blaisdell Publishing Company / Ginn and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Stated 26th printing, 1963 of the 1911 revised edition of a work first published in 1893. Charles Gayley has taken the landmark "Age of Fable" and fashioned a guide to ancient mythology, chiefly of Greece and Troy but also with elements of Norse and Germanic mythology as well as Hindu and Buddhist mythological figures. The author explains how and why ancient myths were created and were used as a way to explain the ways of the world. Illustrated throughout in black & white. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with illustration in gilt to cover, gilt-stamped spine titling & decoration. Text presented on gloss, coated leaves. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An excellent copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with minor dulling to cover & spine gilding.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xli, 597 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88016
- Title
- The Classic Myths in English Literature and Art: Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855), New Edition Revised and Enlarged
- Author
- GAYLEY, Charles Mills
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Blaisdell Publishing Company / Ginn and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
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