DAY, Lal Behari.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Folk-Tales of Bengal. First edition of this collection inspired by the philological investigations of the brothers Grimm. Lal Behari Day, a reverend linked to the Free Church of Scotland, gathered these tales from Bengal's expansive oral storytelling tradition, speaking to an elderly Christian woman, brahmins, a barber, and a former servant.Day (1824-1894) dedicated the volume to the Indian Army officer Richard Carnac Temple, a member of the Folk-Lore Society and an assiduous chronicler of Indian folk stories. Folk-Tales of Bengal went through several editions, including a 1912 edition illustrated by Warwick Goble.

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