Custom and Myth

Andrew Lang

Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, NY, 1910

About this Item

Longmans, Green, and Co., New York. 1910. Hardcover. Reprint Edition of the 1904 new edition of the 1884 original. Stated New Impression. The Silver Library. Retired library copy from Library of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific July 1933 addition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for small library bookplate on the front pastedown and scattered marginal notes in pencil. Book Condition: Good; library number on spine in white; bumped head, tail and upper front tip; light wear to lower tips and board bottoms; slight sunfading to spine. Brown cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Clean interior and sound hinges with not splits or cracks. Floral endpapers. 312 pp 8vo.This book of fifteen sketches, ranging in subject from the Method of Folk-lore and Star Myths to the Art of Savages, illustrates the author?s conception of the inadequacy of the generally accepted methods of comparative mythology.Each of the myths presented here is made to serve a controversial purpose in so far as it supports the essayist?s theory that explanations of comparative mythology do not explain. He believes that folk-lore contains the survivals of primitive ideas common to many peoples, as similar physical and social conditions tend to breed the same ideas. A clean presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 006185

Bibliographic Details

Title: Custom and Myth

Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, NY

Publication Date: 1910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: Reprint Edition