Merlin Press Ltd. MISCELLANEOUS

HOBBY HORSE AND OTHER ANIMAL MASKS

by Violet Alford

Alford's study of the mask as symbol is first class scholarship by a noted folklorist. Extensive illustrations, notes and biography, and an exceptional index enhance the research value of the text. Photos, line drawings, maps.
222x 143mm xxxiv+211pp
0850361605
Hardback

Price: £20.00

LOOM OF LANGUAGE

by Frederick Bodmer

A survey of language development and of the relationship between languages. A richly rewarding treasure-chest of a book, to be read and re-read, dipped into again and again and kept for a lifetime. The ideal book for a desert island. Part one surveys the development of alphabets, accidence, syntax and the classification of languages, part two examines legacies from ancient Germanic and Latin languages, part three considers language problems, and the book concludes with a study of the "language museum", basic vocabularies and Greek influences. 46 illustrations. "profound scholarship, in a manner at once racy and authoritative" The Schoolmaster
214x134mm 670pp
0850363500
1994 Paperback
Price: £14.99

FOLKSONG-PLAINSONG
A Study in Musical origins

by G.B. Chambers

In 1956 this book caused a storm among musicologists, for whom it was heresy to suggest that composed music owed its origin to folk music. The arguments that George Chambers adduces have played their part in the change of attitude that resulted and the greater respect in which folk music is now held. 2nd Edition, 1972. Preface by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
214x134mm 119pp
0850361958
Hardback
Price: £14.95

THEMIS
A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion

by Jane Harrison

Themis marks the culmination of Jane Harrison's revolutionary work on Greek religion. It is essentially an account of how myths arise as part of ritual, then break away from that base until they become mere rationalisations of discarded and obsolete rites.
214x134mm illus 559pp
0850362296
1963 Paperback
Price: £15.95

THEMIS
A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion

by Jane Harrison

214x134mm illus 559pp
0850360579
1963 Hardback
See above for details.
Price: £30.00

ENGLISH POPULAR ART

by Margaret Lambert and Enid Marx

This survey has illustrations of Staffordshire pottery; needlework and embroidery; popular prints and the scenery for toy theatres; carved wood, tombstones, ships' figureheads, shop signs, door-knockers, fire plates, horse brasses, marionettes, weathervanes, corn dollies, clay pipes, toys, gingerbread stamps, snuff-boxes and more - much more - besides. No collector should be without it! With 118 plates and numerous line drawings. Second edition 1989
Contents: Carving; Metal; Painting; Textiles; Pottery; Glass and Miscellaneous; Printing, Index.
253x 175mm lxiv+128pp
9780850365979
First published in paperback 2007
Price: £14.95

TOTEMISM

by Claude Levi-Strauss

An introduction to structuralist thinking in anthropology, reviewing the work of Boas, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. "...sharply provocative analysis..." The New Statesman
214x134mm 128pp
0850363829
1964 Paperback
Rights: USA and Canada: Beacon Press
Price: £9.95

ST CATHERINE'S MONASTERY

by Athanasios Paliouras

A guide to the Greek Orthodox monastery on Mount Sinai. The larger part of this book reproduces black and white drawings and engravings, with many superbly produced colour plates of icons and paintings.
284 x 215mm 234pp
085036356X
1985 Hardback
Price: £30.00