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GRANT, I [sabel].F: : HIGHLAND FOLK WAYS

LONDON.RKP,1961.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG++.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Orange+grey, illustrated dw/dj - an 18thC Targe(shield) to upper wrap and silhouetted man using a cas crom (a foot operated type of plough) to spine/ backstrip and publishers advert on grey rear wrap with all letters in black ink.Minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges,minimal light grubbing- considering age; top corner only, lightly rubbed with miniscule loss.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and aged with fore-edge lightly aged;contents very bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean original publisher's orange cloth boards with blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean,plain white endpapers apart from some light offset foxing from dw/dj's front+rear inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, vii-xviipp+1-377pp includes b/w illustrated title page,author introduction,77 b/w illus and 3 b/w maps and an index. Taught from an early age the stories and traditions of the Highlands,Isabel Grant's first serious piece of research was for a book based on the farm accounts of her own great-great grandfather.Work on this and several more books on Scottish history and many journeys the Highlands brought home to her the importance of the material setting of the old way of Highland life and how quickly it was disappearing.So she resolved to preserve all she could of its vanishing relics and, in order to shelter them she bought a small, disused church on the island of Iona and,when the collection had outgrown that,transferred it to Kingussie.To make it as representative as possible she visited most parts of the mainland and many of the Western Isles.It is during a lifetime mainly spent in reading about and collecting in the Highlands that the material for this book had been gathered. This work is a fascinating record set down before it is too late for the traditions to be remembered.The author has two main themes; to trace out the sequences of adjustment that have taken place in the lives of Scottish Highland people in response to great social and economic pressures,and to show the tenacity with which the influence of the ancient and distinctive social organisation of the highlands has persisted.The author,who founded "Am Fasgadh", the Highland Folk Museum at Kingussie,bases her account on surviving local tradition,the changing patterns left on the land by human settlement,and from the equipment and craftwork that made up the material setting for people's lives. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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