While on a pile, this was a library book I picked up and whizzed through enthused in a couple of days. Myths and legends of Britain re-told, plus lino cut art - just my jam at this moment.
The book pieces together a sequence of tales from antiquity for "A New Mythology of Britain". It takes special care to note the political expediency embedded in mythic traditions.
Jeffs was particularly adept at representing the ways in which each story, complete in itself, was interpolated and adapted by people (rulers) into succeeding myths, self-forming into a coherent sequence creating their own truths. The journey of the artist-author, explored in part in the intro etc, was also of great interest.
One of those volumes where I immediately start scouring abebooks for the hardback version...
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