Fairy Music : A.E. Waite c. 1888 [ Walter Scott Limited ]
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Scarce A.E. Waite Edited Collection of English Fairy Poems “Fairy Music” Featuring The Later Variant Title “Elfin Music”.
Waite, A.E. ed. (Elfin Music) Fairy Music: An Anthology Of English Fairy Poetry. Walter Scott Limited. c 1888.
Later impression of the Canterbury Poets edition of the scarce collection of English poetry on fairies, “Fairy Music”, selected and introduced by noted occultist and scholar Arthur Edward Waite, including works from Shakespeare, Poe, Spence, Scott, Jonson, Keats and others in addition to Old English ballads.
Originally published as “Songs and Poems of Fairyland”, the Canterbury Poets variant is a reedit, reduced in size and content, and released by the same publisher later the same year. A later impression, this example bears the title “Elfin Music” on the spine label and “Fairy Music” on the cancelled half-title.
Gilbert, B2(c).
273pp + [8] ads. Blue cloth boards with title plate to spine. Minor spotting. Text block toned. Grey pages clean. Very good.
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