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| Title | Biographical Studies Silver library |
| Author | Walter Bagehot |
| Editor | Richard Holt Hutton |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1895 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2005 |
| Length | 417 pages |
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