![]() ![]() The 12th volume contains an extensive bibliography and general index. The third edition was originally issued in London, 1911-14 (a 13th supplemental volume, not present here, was issued in 1936). This work was first published in 1890 (in two volumes) and a second edition appeared in 1900 (in three volumes). Its discussion of fertility rites, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, the scapegoat, etc., and its analysis of the primitive mind, caught the literary imagination, and its influence may perhaps be seen most lastingly in the works of D. ![]() ![]() Third and best edition, later issue, of Frazer’s landmark anthropological study of magic and religion, greatly enlarged and expanded to 12 volumes.īegun by Frazer "merely… to explain the strange rule of the priesthood or sacred kingship of Nemi and with it the legend of the Golden Bough, immortalized by Virgil," The Golden Bough grew over the years into "a vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, offering the thesis that man progresses from magical through religious to scientific thought. Octavo, original dark green cloth, original dust jackets. The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion. FRAZER’S CLASSIC STUDY OF MAGIC AND RELIGION, 12-VOLUME SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH AND SCARCE DUST JACKETSįRAZER, James George. ![]()
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