The Origin of Language & Myth by Kavanagh
Publication: 1871 Sampson Low Son and Martson
First Edition, Two-Volume Set. This original set features green cloth covers with decorative blind embossing on the front and gilt stamping on the spines. All pages are clean and free of markings. While there is some rubbing on the front boards, the binding remains tight, presenting a bright copy overall. It is hard to imagine a better-condition set of this age, making it overall Very Good+.
This work is an eccentric study of the origin of language by Morgan Kavanagh, an Irish-born poet and author who dedicated much of his life to the exploration of language. He reportedly had some fluency in a dozen or so languages and proposed philological theories that challenged those of Friedrich Max Müller and others.