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The boy's own book

a complete encyclopedia of all the diversions, athletic, scientific, and recreative, of boyhood and youth

by William Clarke

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

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. 1 online resource (viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 726 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates) : Added title page, engraved and printed in color; other illustrations engraved by Vizetelly after W. Harvey Includes index Publisher's advertisements follow text Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

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

    • Magic· via Internet Archive
    • Magic· via Open Library
    • Magic· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 24 editions; 2 cataloged here.

a complete encyclop dia of sports and pastimes : athletic, scientific, and recreative

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1880-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Crosby Lockwood and CompanyEnglishPublic digitized item

a complete encyclopedia of all the diversions, athletic, scientific, and recreative, of boyhood and youth

Open Library record

1996Applewood BooksEnglish
  • 9781557095053
  • 1557095051
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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • 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: europeanlibraries
  • Open Library reports 24 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL2967324W
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