The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
FRAZER, James George
Abridged Edition.
ABRIDGED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Macmillan, 1954
Stock code: 47219
Price: £54.00
8vo., free endpapers mildly browned; original green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Frazer's masterwork first appeared in two volumes in 1890, with a second edition in three volumes in 1900. The abridged edition first appeared in 1922. 'While the bulk of the book has been greatly reduced, I have endeavoured to retain its leading principles, together with an amount of evidence sufficient to illustrate them clearly' (Author's Preface). Bright, crisp copy of the abridged edition. Besterman CLXXXI (recording the first edition thus of 1922).