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(-) Elegant Extracts & Elegant Epistles (2 Volumes)

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Elegant Extracts or Useful and entertaining Passage in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: being similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, xvi (8) 1120pp, engraved title page, London, 1797. Elegant Epistles: Being A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, and for General Entertainment, London, 1794, New Edition, Improved and Enlarged, 873pp, both full tree calf, spines taped top and bottom, 2 names in ink, ex owners stamp

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