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Red Book of Appin

a story of the Middle Ages with other hermetic stories and allegorical fairy tales, with interpretations

Also known as The Red book of Appin

by Ethan Allen Hitchcock

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

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Originally published in 1863 as: The story of the Red book of Appin The story of the Red book of Appin -- The six swans -- The white dove -- Dummling and the toad -- The fox's brush -- Appendix -- Faithful John -- The goosegirl at the well

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Retained metadata contains “hermetic” in the subtitle, “hermetic” in the edition title, and “hermetic” in the edition subtitle.

    • “hermetic”· in subtitle
    • “hermetic”· in edition title
    • “hermetic”· in edition subtitle
  • 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 subtitle, “Tales” in the subtitle, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

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

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Editions

Open Library reports 5 editions; 2 cataloged here.

The Red book of Appin : a story of the middle ages with other hermetic stories and allegorical tales

HathiTrust catalog record

1866———Public view

The red book of Appin

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1863James Miller; New York : J. MillerEnglish—Public

Subjects

6 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Digitization sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 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 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe2.chapelhill.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL2975143W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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