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Originally Posted by GOLLUM  OK, you can get a nice fascimilie edition of this book. I'm not sure if it's significant enough for me to purchase though? I guess if the old gent drew upon it then it probably is, JD what do you think? |
Well, if you'll look a couple of places, you can also get the original printing for about the same price, or even less (although I don't know about the S&H on such). And it isn't a single book... it's a set of ten volumes; takes up most of a shelf, actually.
As for whether I think it's "significant" enough... For the money, I'd say definitely yes. It's actually rather inexpensive, and has something of a reputation, gathers together not only a great deal of famous material but a fair amount of more obscure material as well, and on the associational level it obviously played an important role in one of the most highly-regarded studies of the supernatural tale written to date.
However, my reason for bringing up the set wasn't to promote buying it (though I think it's a good investment) but to make people aware of it in the first place, and of its current availability either through purchase or through libraries or online, if they wish to look up some classics in any of these fields; classics such as those by Erckmann-Chatrian, which aren't that easy to come by here, for one example. This set brings together an enormous amount of material (it is something on the order of 4000+ pp. in length) that is quite likely to be of interest to afficionadoes of any of these fields....