Robert Hunt. Popular Romances of the West of England : The Drolls, Traditions & Superstitions of Old Cornwall. First Series. London: John Camden Hotten, 1865.
(20 x 13.5 cm) pp. xxiv, 319. Bound in dark green publisher's cloth with gilt sea bishop figure. Title etc and standing stone illustration in gilt on spine. Frontispeice of Cornish giant by George Cruikshank. Ticket adhered to back pastedown: Bound by Bone & Son, 76 Fleet Street, London. Splitting between gathering G and H, but still firmly bound. Endbands roughed up and bottom corner bumped to fraying. Else a FAIR to GOOD copy.
Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, rocks, lost cities, fire worship, demons and spectres,





