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Lewis Morris - The Works of Lewis Morris The Physicians Of Myddfai

Title: The Works of Lewis Morris The Physicians Of Myddfai
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1890. Hardcover. Original 1890 Very Good First Edition Hardcover Clean 500 pp. free of annotations. No writing NO book plates. Frontis with portrait of Lewis Morris and tissue, Except for minor shelf wear and a little foxing excellent shape. Tight binding Clean endpapers and text Among the dozens of poems and tales is the ten page Welsh Fairy tale "The Physicians Of Myddfai" A story of a man who wins for a wife one of the Tylwyth Teg, a Fairy Woman of the Lake. She tells him "to never strike her three times". He does and her descendants in Medieval Britain become physicians who leave healing prescriptions in the "real" world!! This retelling here is brilliant. Gilt spine titles See our Scans. Very Good+ .

Keywords: north wales welsh celtic fairies welsh physicians of myddfai lake fairy wales poetry tylwyth teg victorian wales breton poems Celtic Studies Cornish/Brittany/Isle Of Man Megalithic/Goddess/Geomancy

Price: US$ 90.00 Seller: Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
- Book number: 90005721

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