Bulfinch's Mythology [ILLUSTRATED EDITION] 1979 • Avenel Books

Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bullfinch [The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne]

ILLUSTRATED EDITION [1979] AVENEL BOOKS

Heavyweight hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is excellent; one sealed tear to rear corner; otherwise excellent.

Pages have tanning, but otherwise book is pristine. 

Includes the complete texts of The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne.

Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death in 1867. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. Carl J. Richard comments that it was "one of the most popular books ever published in the United States and the standard work on classical mythology for nearly a century," until the release of classicist Edith Hamilton's 1942 Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch originally published his work as three volumes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, published in 1855; The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur, published in 1858; and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages, published in 1863. The original three volumes were later combined into a single volume titled Bulfinch's Mythology, published in 1881.