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    i2o The Publishers' Circular Feb. i, ^90

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1890, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021890/page/18/