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FRAZER, J. G.
The Golden Bough, a study in comparative religion.
In two volumes.
Publisher: London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890
Stock code: 49914
Price: £4,000 Currency Conversion
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on an initial blank, "The Rev. J. S. Black with the Author's kind regards. 13th May, 1890." An excellent association of this anthropological classic: John Sutherland Black (1846-1923) was later to be the biographer of Black's closest friend, the dedicatee and originator of The Golden Bough, William Robertson Smith. Some material relating to Scottish harvest customs communicated via Black had been published by Frazer in The Folk-Lore Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1889), pp. 47-53; and the same material is reused here in vol. 2, p. 10.
2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered gilt, front covers with a design of mistletoe in gilt, green coated endpapers. Custom green morocco-entry slipcase. Frontispiece after Turner. Spines slightly chipped at head, light marginal toning, a good copy.
