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Bluebeard's picture book

containing Bluebeard, the sleeping beauty and Baby's own alphabet

by Walter Crane, Edmund Evans & Elizabeth d'Hauteville Kean

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: JuvenilePrimary source
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Description

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statement of responsibility: by Walter Crane ; engraved & printed by Edmund Evans Preface dated: Streatley on Thames, Aug. 1899 Main t.p. printed in red and black Each story has its own special t.p. and separate pagination; at head of each special t.p.: Walter Crane's picture books re-issue Series from p. [4] of cover citation/reference: BM, v. 21, col. 1158 action: conserved, repaired; 2015; Georgia Southworth Conservation; pda DSI SWC grant BM conserved, repaired; CHMRB copy 39088007530520 has accession no.: 1370 CHMRB copy has bookplate: From the library of Miss Elizabeth Kean; ms. note: Presented by Miss Lucy H. Kean, April, 1925 CHMRB copy had conservation treatment supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee in 2015 CHMRB copy has the publisher's black-stamped blue cloth binding; illustrated endpapers; binding designed by Crane

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales” and “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject
    • “Tales”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

3 editions cataloged here.

containing Bluebeard, The sleeping beauty, and Baby's own alphabet : with the original coloured designs

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1899-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon & New York : John Lane, the Bodley HeadEnglish—Public digitized item

Open Library record

1899John Lane/The Bodley HeadEnglish—No ebook

containing Bluebeard, the sleeping beauty and Baby's own alphabet

Open Library record

1899John Lane, The BodleyEnglish—No ebook

Subjects

3 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Smithsonian Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
  • 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.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL106928W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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