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Popular antiquities of Great Britain, comprising notices of the moveable and immoveable feasts, customs, superstitions and amusements past and present

Faith and folklore; a dictionary of national beliefs, superstitions and popular customs, past and current, with their classical and foreign analogues, described and illustrated. Forming a new ed. of "The popular antiquities of Great Britain" by Brand and Ellis, largely exended, corr., brought down to the present time, and now first alphabetically arr.

Also known as Popular antiquities of Great Britain

by John Brand & William Carew Hazlitt

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"The impression of this book is limited to 350 copies, of which 50 are on large paper." v. 1. The calendar.--v. 2. Customs and ceremonies.--v. 3. Superstitions

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Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Folklore”. Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the subtitle, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and “Folklore” in the edition subtitle.

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    • “Folklore”· in subject
    • “Folklore”· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 4 editions; 2 cataloged here.

Popular antiquities of Great Britain

1905Reeves and TurnerEnglish—Public

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1870J. R. Smith; London : J. R. Smith; London : J.R. SmithEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Contributing institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates
  • 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 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL4810743W
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