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| Title | An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-papers,: Which Were Exhibited in Norfolk-Street.. An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-papers,: Which Were Exhibited in Norfolk-Street, Thomas Egerton (Bookseller) Eighteenth Century |
| Author | George Chalmers |
| Contributor | Thomas Egerton (Bookseller) |
| Publisher | Thomas Egerton, Whitehall., 1797 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 628 pages |
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