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| Title | The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: To which are Prefixed Short Sketches of the ... Author's Family, and Also of His Life, Volumes 1-2 The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: To which are Prefixed Short Sketches of the ... Author's Family, and Also of His Life, Charles Nalson Cole |
| Authors | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | T. Cadell, 1793 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2006 |
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