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Apparitions, or, The mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses developed

being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those ridiculous fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions

Also known as Apparitions; Apparitions; or, The mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses developed. Being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact; and selected for the purpose of eradicating those ridiculous fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious, are but too apt to encourage; Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed. Being a collection of entertaining stories, founded on fact

by Joseph Taylor

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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XXX "Being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those fears which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious are but too apt to encourage. Also available in digital form.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, library-of-congress, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, project-gutenberg, and wellcome matched “Apparitions”, “apparitions”, “Ghosts”, and 3 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Apparitions” in the title, “Ghosts” in the title, “haunted” in the title, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Apparitions”· via Internet Archive
    • “ghosts haunted”· via Library of Congress
    • “Apparitions”· via Open Library
    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “haunted”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “apparitions”· via Wellcome Collection

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Editions

Open Library reports 5 editions; 4 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1815-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Lackington, Allen & Co.; London, Lackington, AllenEnglish—Public digitized item

being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those ridiculous fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1814Lackington, Allen, and co.; London, Lackington, Allen, and co.; Printed by Macdonald and Son for Lackington, Allen and Co.English—No ebook

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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2010-02-21Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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