• Publication: Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish PeasantryPublication Record # 270973
• Author: Allan Cunningham
• Date: 1887-00-00
• Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
• Pub. Series: Morley's Universal Library
• Pub. Series #: 56
• Price:
  1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 288
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: The stories in this collection were (with the exception of the first) originally published in the London Magazine over the course of some years (dates unknown by this researcher) prior to being released in a 2 volume edition in 1822. Both volumes of material are combined here in a single publication. The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive. The full text and images of this edition are available at Google Books. Both digital copies, from different print copies, include front and back covers and free endpapers (that is, 8 pages). In the copy at Google Books, from original at the Bodleian Library, those pages are legible in full. "Morley's Universal Library" is named on the front cover and half-title page. It is listed on the front free endpaper and t.p. verso, 56 volumes numbered 1 to "56. Traditional Tales. Allan Cunningham." "Routledge's Excelsior Series of Standard Authors" is listed on the back free endpaper and back inside cover. Price is from the inside front cover, also on Morley's: "Fifteen Volumes in an Oak Bookcase", price one guinea (21/-); "In Monthly Volumes, One Shilling Each." Month of publication is not stated, unless on the spine. The Introduction, p[5]-8, closes "H. M." and "November 1887".

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Introduction (Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry) • essay by Henry Morley
• 9 • Ezra Peden • (1822) • novelette by Allan Cunningham
• 33 • The Selbys of Cumberland • (1822) • novelette by Allan Cunningham
• 74 • Placing a Scottish Minister • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 93 • The King of the Peak • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 110 • The Mother's Dream • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 127 • Allan-a-Maut • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 143 • Miles Colvine, the Cumberland Mariner • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 161 • Honest Man John Ochiltree • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 180 • Elphin Irving, the Fairies' Cupbearer • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 194 • Richard Faulder, Mariner • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 206 • The Last Lord of Helvellyn • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 220 • Judith Macrone, the Prophetess • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 235 • The Ghost with the Golden Casket • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 249 • The Haunted Ships • (1821) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 264 • Death of the Laird of Warlsworm • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 281 • The Seven Foresters of Chatsworth: An Ancient Derbyshire Ballad • (1822) • poem by Allan Cunningham