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... query . I also have a copy of the cutting . The picture and letterpress form part of a review of " The Devil's Walk . ' By Coleridge and Southey . A New Edition , with several additional Engravings by Robert Cruikshank . Simpkin ...
... query . I also have a copy of the cutting . The picture and letterpress form part of a review of " The Devil's Walk . ' By Coleridge and Southey . A New Edition , with several additional Engravings by Robert Cruikshank . Simpkin ...
Page 13
... query is of ancient date , but I have just of van der Plaes , engraved by Houbraken , in Bryan's Dictionary as Martin . A portrait perused D. Vinecombe's will , which disposes of a part of it . After leaving legacies of is to be found ...
... query is of ancient date , but I have just of van der Plaes , engraved by Houbraken , in Bryan's Dictionary as Martin . A portrait perused D. Vinecombe's will , which disposes of a part of it . After leaving legacies of is to be found ...
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... Queries ' " -Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers " -at the Office , Printing House Square , London , E.C.4 .; corrected proofs to the Athenæum Press , 11 and 13 Bream's Buildings , E.C.4 . are WHEN answering a query ...
... Queries ' " -Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers " -at the Office , Printing House Square , London , E.C.4 .; corrected proofs to the Athenæum Press , 11 and 13 Bream's Buildings , E.C.4 . are WHEN answering a query ...
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... query with better chance of success . My principal object is to identify the “ Burton of which the Rev. F. Barlow was vicar at the period indicated . W. B. H. MAJOR - GENERAL SIR ROBERT SALE . It is said that in a despatch from him ...
... query with better chance of success . My principal object is to identify the “ Burton of which the Rev. F. Barlow was vicar at the period indicated . W. B. H. MAJOR - GENERAL SIR ROBERT SALE . It is said that in a despatch from him ...
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... query , or referring to an any rate , if this phonetic method is seriously to article which has already appeared , correspondents be tried it ougnt to be standardized - for ordinary are requested to give within parentheses -- writing ...
... query , or referring to an any rate , if this phonetic method is seriously to article which has already appeared , correspondents be tried it ougnt to be standardized - for ordinary are requested to give within parentheses -- writing ...
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