23168. Drake, Samuel Adams. A BOOK OF NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE. Boston. 1906.
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23168. Drake, Samuel Adams. A BOOK OF NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE. Boston. 1906.
- Drake, Samuel Adams. A BOOK OF NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE. Boston. 1906. 2nd. 477 p. Beautiful gilt embossed title and vignette on wraps. Illustrated with numerous wonderful, detailed woodcut illustrations. Samuel Adams Drake was one of America’s most enduring 19th-century New England historians and folklorists. Almost every inch of New England’s coastline has its own story or legend. Here in scintillating prose and pertinent poetry are the legends of Boston, Cambridge, Lynn and Nahant, Salem (check out the witch motif on the cover!), Marblehead, Cape Ann, Ipswich and Newbury, Hampton and Portsmouth, York, Isles of Shoals and Boon Island, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Nantucket, not to mention the White Mountains. In this, his most famous book, renowned New England antiquarian Samuel Adams Drake draws heavily upon the homely prose legends which molded opinions, swayed consciences, and sometimes unbalanced the judgments of men and women who had both human and divine law for their support and guidance. Also included is legendary poetry, founded on fact, plus dozens upon dozens of pen and ink drawings. Here you’ll find Pilgrims and patriots … witches and wizards … pirates and ghost ships … eccentrics and zealots … the famous and the infamous … unforgettable stories from Connecticut to Maine. For anyone who loves New England, folklore, history, or all of the above, this book offers a wealth of memorable reading. Complementing the text are hundreds of detailed woodcut illustrations showing scenes and historic personages from the locales the author writes about, adding rich visual texture to his narrative. As expected, life on the ocean is a prominent theme here, including lighthouse life, shipwrecks and much more. Contents clean, binding worn at hinges, tape reinforced, covers fairly bright with light wear and bumping. Superb New England reading. (VG-). $88 net.