BRIGGS DICTIONARY OF FAIRIES (HB)

Over the course of her life, British folklorist Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980) published fourteen books, lectured widely and was president of The Folklore Society. This new edition of one of Briggs' seminal works is a dictionary of folklore creatures and tales, illustrated in rich detail with beautiful black and white line drawings by artist Fee Greening. From brownies to Shetland selkies, Cornish spriggans to Nuckelavee (the most horrid of monsters in all of Britain) Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies is a treasury of stories, songs and creatures passed down from one generation to the next.