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    Oct. 15; 1890 The Publishers' Circular 1...

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    Tastes in Reading.—There are fashions

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    Simpktn, Marshall & Co.'s (Limited)

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    »<JH Ti^ad^ G^^ ange , Mr , . „ William ...

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    Oct. 15; 1890 The Publishers' Circular 1...

    Oct . 15 ; 1890 The Publishers' Circular 135 I

    Tastes In Reading.—There Are Fashions

    Tastes in Reading . —There are fashions

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    »< JH Ti ^ ad ^ G ^^ ange Mr . William Downingof the Chaucer ' Head

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1890, page 1351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101890/page/13/