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The Marquis of Carabas' picture book

containing Puss in boots, Old Mother Hubbard, My mother, The forty thieves

by Walter Crane, Edmund Evans & Sarah Catherine Martin

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

4 volumes in 1 (8; 8; 8; [8]) leaves : color illustrations ; 25 cm Cover title: The Marquis of Carabas, his picture book Date of publication from BLC Each story is separately paged Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso Opie Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: brown cloth over boards with black & gold-stamped illustration. Printed on one side of leaf. Walter Crane - Spencer - p.45. Jo Ann Reisler. Vienna, va. Jan/95. $300.00. Aleph-Bet Books. Valley Cottage, N.Y. - 2001 - $875.00 Copy in Rare Books and Special Collections is a gift of Sheila Bourke

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.

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

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

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Editions

3 editions cataloged here.

containing Puss in Boots, Old Mother Hubbard, Valentine and Orson, the absurd ABC

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1874-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon (The Broadway, Ludgate) ; New York (416 Broome Street) : George Routledge and SonsEnglish—Public digitized item

Marquis of Carabas' picture book

1874George Routledge and SonsEnglish—No ebook

containing Puss in boots, Old Mother Hubbard, My mother, The forty thieves

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1874George Routledge and Sons; London, England : George Routledge and SonsEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: McGill University Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • 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.
  • Scanner: scribe3.boston.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL24967106W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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