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The golden bough : a study in magic and religion

Frazer, James George, Sir, 1854-1941, Frye, Northrop. Marginalia · 1922 · London : Macmillan · 2 pictures

James George Frazer's one-volume abridgement of The Golden Bough, a comparative study of magic, myth and religion, issued by Macmillan in London in 1922 for general and scholarly readers. The plates are few: a frontispiece halftone after Turner's painting of Lake Nemi with figures among trees and ruins, and an engraved armorial bookplate with helm, stag crest, acanthus mantling and motto scroll — usable as heraldic line art and as a moody landscape vignette.

Mythology · Superstition · Religion · Magic

Internet Archive · PIMS - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931)