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Uniform Title Vetālapañcaviṃśati. Hindi version (Baitala-pacisi). English.
Title Vikram and the vampire, or, Tales of Hindu devilry / / adapted by Sir Richard F. Burton ; edited by Isabel Burton ; with thirty-three illustrations by Ernest Griset, and a new photogravure frontispiece by Albert Letchford.

Publication Info. London : Tylston and Edwards, 1893.

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages).
Series Vampires anthology
Vampires anthology.
BiblioBoard Core module.
Note "Two hundred copies only of this large-paper edition have been printed. In each of these copies is included an extra frontispiece designed specially for this edition by Albert Letchford, and produced in photogravure.
Original document: Book.
Summary Sir Richard Burton's adaptation of the Sanskrit textℓBaital Pachisi describes seven tales from the 25 in the original. Edited by his wife and including several illustrations, Burton's version of the ancient Indian text offers an entertaining insight into the historical representation of vampires.ℓ
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Genre/Form Photogravures -- England -- 19th century.
Added Author Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.
Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, editor.
Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907, illustrator.
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