Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, Francisco Goya and Arnold Böcklin. A folk story found from Iceland to Armenia: a traveler pays for the burial of a stranger and is repaid by the dead man. Gerould traced every version and this remains the standard study of how one tale crosses a continent. This edition is bound with 59 plates of paintings by artists including Gustave Doré, Odilon Redon and Piero della Francesca, dating from 1470 to 1904.