The True Legend Of Saint Dunstan And The Devil: Showing How The Horse Shoe Came To Be A Charm Against Witchcraft

by Edward G. Flight, George Cruikshank (Illustrator)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

68 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2006

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Notes: St. Dunstan was mentioned in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." This version of a St. Dunstan legend is illustrated by George Cruickshank, who illustrated some of Dickens work (but not A Christmas Carol).

(I read the 3rd edition available at Project Gutenberg with illustrations.)

[Hal Brodsky · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an easy to read Victorian poem written in AABCCB.
As this is a copy of the 2nd edition, it must have done better than it seems to deserve. I suspect the reason it sold well was because it was illustrated by famed illustrator George Cruikshank (as in Charles Dickens' illustrator), and from the somewhat bizarre action in the poem, I am sure Cruikshank had a filed day with this.
Herein lies the problem...Cruikshank's illustrations are missing from this E-Book edition, making it, too me, almost valueless.
Perhaps someone can comment on why the illustrations are missing.......

[Emily Johnson · Rating 1 out of 5]

totally not what I was expecting