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Page 73 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
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Page 95 - THE CHARLES DICKENS DINNER./ An Authentic Record/ of/ The Public Banquet/ given to/ MR. CHARLES DICKENS,/ at the/ Freemasons' Hall, London,/ On Saturday, November 2, 1867,/ Prior to his departure for the United States./ With a report of the Speeches from Special Shorthand Notes./ London :/ Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly ;/ Ticknor and Field, Boston./ 1867.
Page 158 - Original Letters, etc., of Sir John Falstaff and his friends, now first made public by a gentleman, a descendant of Dame Quickly, from genuine manuscripts which have been in the possession of the Quickly family near four hundred years.
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Page 1 - The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments, 2 vols.
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Page 6 - Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. With numerous Illustrations, Original and from the Antique, drawn on Wood by George Scharf, jun., and engraved by Samuel Williams. New Edition. Fcp. 4to.