Balder the beautiful : the fire-festivals of Europe and the doctrine of the external soul / by J.G. Frazer, … ; in two volumes.
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100777
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with other vols. of Frazer's "The golden bough" (3rd ed.). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half brown morocco, marbled paper over boards; five raised bands; light brown morocco spine labels (gilt lettered): 'The golden bough / Frazer'; green morocco spine labels (gilt lettered): 'Vol. X[-XI] / Balder the beautiful I[-II]'; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'Bumpus Ltd Oxford St. W.'
Makers and roles
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), author