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| Title | Modern Painters ... Volume 3 of Modern Painters, John Ruskin The new universal library |
| Author | John Ruskin |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder, and Company, 1856 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
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