The Courtship of Ferb. A Romance of the Cuchulainn Cycle. An Old Irish Romance transcribed in the Twelfth Century into the Book of Leinster. Illustrated by Caroline Watts. London: Nutt, 1902. First Edition.  Pp,101. Publisher’s blue cloth pictorial boards. Ex library copy, with ink stamps & with occasional label residue to endpapers.

Attractively printed with titles printed in green and fine pen drawings by Caroline Watts.

This tale from ‘The Tain’ recounts the story of Mani, son of Queen Mave, and his desired to wed Ferb, the daughter of Gerg, who was the chief of Glenn Geirg, in the kingdom of Ulster.