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Bibliographic information
| Title | The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of George the Second |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | H. Fisher, Son & Company, 1825 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 716 pages |
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