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Title: The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies

Author: Robert Kirk

Editor: Andrew Lang

Illustrator: W. Lockhart Bogle


Release date: February 27, 2025 [eBook #75485]

Language: English

Original publication: uk: David Nutt, 1893

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

This book was published in 1893 and is a careful reproduction of a book printed in 1815 from a manuscript of 1691 by Rev. Robert Kirk. An Introduction and Notes have been added by Andrew Lang for the 1893 publication.

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the Lang footnotes have been placed at the end of the book in front of the two Catalog pages.

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

Except for a very few changes noted at the end of the book, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been left unchanged.