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Bulfinch's Mythology : the age of fable / Thomas Bulfinch.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867.
- Series:
- Running Press classics
- Standardized Title:
- Age of fable
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology.
- mythology (literary genre).
- Medical Subjects:
- Mythology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Age of Fable
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1987.
- Contents:
- The Lineage of the Gods
- Preface
- The Age of Fable
- Proverbial Expressions
- Essays / By Michael Grant; By Charles Grosvenor Osgood.
- Notes:
- "The text of this volume is reprinted from a first edition of 'The Age of Fable,' published by Allen & Farnaham, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1855, and made available through the courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley."--Page [4].
- "The essay Myths and the Modern World by Michael Grant is excerpted from 'Myths of the Greeks and Romans' by Michael Grant, copyright ©1965 by Meridian Books--The World Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of Weidenfeld & Nicholson Ltd., London."--Page [4].
- "The essay Greek Myth and the Poets by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is reprinted from the introduction to 'Classical Myths in English Literautre' by Dan S. Norton and Peter Rushton, copyright © 1952 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., New York."--Page [4].
- "Cover illustration by Wayne Parmenter. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: English Times and Plantin by rci, Philadelphia."--Page [4].
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy is "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0894715372
- 9780894715372
- OCLC:
- 17461808
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