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The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers

a legend of Stiria

by John Ruskin, Richard Doyle, William Randolph Hearst, Riviere & Son. bnd CU-BANC, Elder Smith & Vizetelly Bros. & Co. bkp CU-BANC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English, Welsh
  • Content type: FictionJuvenilePrimary source

Through kindness a boy regains for himself the treasure his cruel older brothers lost.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

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

    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “Legends”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “legend” in the subtitle, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library

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Editions

Open Library reports 235 editions; 2 cataloged here.

a legend of Styria

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1851-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Smith, Elder, & Co.English—Public digitized item

The King of the Golden River

1946The World Publishing CompanyEnglish—Public

Subjects

32 subject headings

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Identifiers

Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • 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 235 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: rich3
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL88599W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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