Poems, an offering to Lancashire [ed. by I. Craig-Knox]. |
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| Title | Poems, an offering to Lancashire [ed. by I. Craig-Knox]. |
| Author | Poems |
| Editor | Isa Craig- Knox |
| Publisher | E. Faithfull, Victoria Press, 1863 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 62 pages |
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