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First Edition. Privately printed for the author by Richard Gill, The Lane, Cross Street, Manchester, 1909. Hardback, cloth backed grey boards, 64pp. stapled, map. Boards very lightly marked else a very good, clean copy inscribed by the author to J.W. Jackson on p.1. One of 70 copies printed for private use only. A detailed and all-absorbing paper on the food stuffs of the area from the earliest times including, bannocks, porridge, the potato, meat, haggis, milk, beer, rowan ale etc. etc. He quotes from various volumes: The English husbandman eate barley and rye brown bread, and prefer it to white bread, as abiding longer in the stomack, and not so soon digested with their labour . The map is a Topographical Range of Bannock, Jannock, Haver-cake. Roeder, Charles [formerly Carl] (1848 1911), folklorist and oral historian, was born in Gera, Thuringia, Germany. Nothing is known of his early life. At twenty-one he emigrated to Manchester to work as a shipping clerk. In 1881 he was living at 92 Lloyd Street, Chorlton-cum-Medlock, with his two sisters, one of whom was a singer, the other a governess. He later became a patent agent and started his own business in continental trade. He was a keen amateur geologist and archaeologist and developed a strong interest in the collection of folklore and oral history. After working on his adopted city's past, especially prehistoric and Roman archaeology, and collecting folklore in Lancashire and Cheshire, Roeder's interest turned to the Isle of Man, which he first visited in 1882. (Light item shipping charges will be reduced.). Seller Inventory # 13055
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