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| Title | Letters of the Kings of England: Now First Collected from Royal Archives, and Other Authentic Sources, Private as Well as Public, Volume 1 Letters of the Kings of England: Now First Collected from Royal Archives, and Other Authentic Sources, Private as Well as Public, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps |
| Editor | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps |
| Publisher | H. Colburn, 1848 |
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