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... Illustrations . Grosvenor Notes , 1880. With Numerous Illusts . [ Shortly . Pictures at the Paris Exhibition , 1878. 80 Illustrations . Pictures at South Kensington . ( The Raphael Cartoons , Sheep- shanks Collection , & c . ) With 70 ...
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... numerous Woodcuts . Crown 8vo , cloth extra , gilt , with Illustrations , 7s . 6d . Byron's Letters and Journals . With Notices of his Life . By THOMAS MOORE . A Reprint of the Original Edition newly revised , with Twelve full - page ...
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Page 10 - The illustrations of this volume . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my
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