A Book of the Basques.
Illustrated with photographs by the Author and drawings and a map by Marjorie Gallop.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930 Stock Code: 143205
First edition, first impression, signed by Gallop and dated March 1939 on a loosely inserted piece of paper. A Book of the Basques "seems likely to remain the standard work in English on that small country" (V.A.).
Rodney Gallop (1900-1948), was a noted folklorist and member of H. M. Foreign Service. He travelled the world to gather folk-songs and lore, from Greece and Portugal to Mexico. "But ot the Basque Country, his first love, he remained faithful through life, brought up there as a child, returning between every foreign appointment. His study of the ancient tongue, his collections of folk-songs, culminated in his A Book of the Basques" (V.A.).
Description
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine, map endpapers. With the dust jacket.
Illustrations
Monochrome photographic frontispiece, 15 similar plates, and numerous in-text illustrations.
Condition
Corners a trifle rubbed, the binding otherwise sharp and bright, faint spotting to edges, internally clean and fresh. A near-fine copy in the very good jacket, price-clipped, lightly soiled, a little wear to extremities, unfaded.
Bibliography
V.A., "Obituary", in Journal Folklore, vol. 59, 1948, issue 4, p. 190.
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