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Libra Esoterica

The popular story of Blue Beard, or, Female curiosity

embellished with beautiful engravings

by Charles Perrault

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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8 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm. Undated. Date suggested by P.A.H. Brown's London publisher's and printers p. 168 Cover title and imprint Publisher's advertisements on p. [4] of wrapper First sentence: "There was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches gilded all over with gold." Includes 7 woodcuts Copies in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 1 hand-coloured woodcut and 6 other cuts in text. One copy with blue pictorial paper wrappers. Other copy with pale pink pictorial wrappers

Provenance

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 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”· in subject
    • “Tales”· in subject

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Editions

One edition cataloged here.

embellished with beautiful engravings

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1846-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Ryle & Co.English—Public digitized item

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: McGill University 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.
Catalog id
internet-archive:McGillLibrary-PN970_R9_P67_1846-1353
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