Anatole Le Braz. Dealings with the Dead: Narratives from "La Legende de La Mort En Basse Bretagne". London: George Redway, 1898.
(19 x 13) pp. 220 + 4 p. of publishers adverts. Bound in blue publisher's cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Light scuffing to covers. Some agetoning to prelims. Interior text block crisp and clean. Printed on heavy paper. Ex-library with blue rubber stamps to front and rear pastedowns and flyleaves with library card on rear flyleaf. Overall VERY GOOD condition.
Focusing on Breton and Brythonic beliefs about death, the afterlife, and the supernatural, featuring tales of the Ankou (a death-figure), ghosts, and omens, compiled from oral traditions in regions like Goëlo, Cornouaille, and Trégor.
The Toronto library from which this book came was the Britten Memorial Spiritualist Library, named after Emma Britten Hardinge, who was an important (if not founding) figure in British Spiritualism.