"MYTH AND LEGEND" SERIES - A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF (1846-1927). Classic Myth and Legend, London, [?1912], large 8vo, plates, original green cloth decorated in art nouveau style. [?]FIRST EDITION. With 6 other books from the same series. (7)

"MYTH AND LEGEND" SERIES - A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF (1846-1927).  Classic Myth and Legend ... With Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome from famous Paintings and Statuary. London: The Gresham Publishing Company, [?1912]. Large 8vo (212 x 138mm). Half title, plates, some coloured. Original green pictorial cloth gilt decorated in art nouveau style, top edges gilt (corners bumped). [?]FIRST EDITION. With 6 other books from the same series, namely Charles Squires' Celtic Myth and Legend. Poetry and Romance (London, [n.d.]), Donald A. Mackenzie's Teutonic Myth and Legend (London, [n.d.]), A. R. Hope Moncrieff's Romance and Legend of Chivalry (London, [n.d.]), Donald A. Mackenzie's Egyptian Myth and Legend (London [n.d.]), the same author's Indian Myth and Legend (London [n.d.]) and the same author's Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (London, [n.d.]), all in near-uniform green pictorial cloth gilt decorated in art nouveau style. Provenance: from the Collection of the late Professor Bernard Nevill (1930-2019). An advertisement at the front of each book lists only these 7 titles, suggesting they were the first in the series, although additional titles were added later. A FINE BRIGHT SET. (7)