The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc.

VOL. I.
ACCROSHAY-NUTS IN MAY
Medium 8vo, xix.—424 pp. With numerous Diagrams and Illustrations. Cloth uncut. 12s. 6d. nett.
Some Press Notices
Notes and Queries. —“A work of supreme importance . . . a scholarly, valuable, and delightful work.” Spectator. —“Interesting and useful to the antiquarian, historian, and philologist, as well as to the student of manners and customs.” Saturday Review. —“Thorough and conscientious.” Critic (New York).—“A mine of riches to the student of folk-lore, anthropology, and comparative religion.” Antiquary. —“The work of collection and comparison has been done with obvious care, and at the same time with a con amore enthusiasm.” Zeitschrift für vergl. Literaturgeschichte. —“In jeder Beziehung erschöpfend und mustergültig.” Zeitschrift für Pädagogie. —“Von hoher wissenschaftlicher Bedeutung.”
WITH TUNES, SINGING-RHYMES, AND METHODS OF PLAYING ACCORDING TO THE VARIANTS EXTANT AND RECORDED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE KINGDOM
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY ALICE BERTHA GOMME
VOL. II. OATS AND BEANS-WOULD YOU KNOW TOGETHER WITH A MEMOIR ON THE STUDY OF CHILDREN’S GAMES
LONDON DAVID NUTT, 270-71 STRAND 1898
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press

The completion of the second volume of my Dictionary has been delayed from several unforeseen circumstances, the most important being the death of my most kind and learned friend the Rev. Dr. Gregor. The loss which folk-lore students as a body sustained by this lamented scholar’s death, was in my own case accentuated, not only by many years of kindly communication, but by the very special help which he generously gave me for this collection.