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... edition of Sir Humphry Davy's ' Works , ' which was completed in nine volumes next year . In 1838 , too , the firm inaugurated a series of elaborate reports of recent expeditions which the government had sent out for purposes of ...
... edition of Sir Humphry Davy's ' Works , ' which was completed in nine volumes next year . In 1838 , too , the firm inaugurated a series of elaborate reports of recent expeditions which the government had sent out for purposes of ...
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... edition of the first volume of ' Modern Painters , ' only 105 were disposed of within the year . Possibly there were other causes besides public indifference for this comparative failure . Signs were not wanting at the moment that ...
... edition of the first volume of ' Modern Painters , ' only 105 were disposed of within the year . Possibly there were other causes besides public indifference for this comparative failure . Signs were not wanting at the moment that ...
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... edition of 1,500 copies was issued ; and in 1849 Smith brought out the second of Ruskin's great prose works , ' The Seven Lamps of Architecture , ' which was the earliest of Ruskin's books that was welcomed with practical warmth on its ...
... edition of 1,500 copies was issued ; and in 1849 Smith brought out the second of Ruskin's great prose works , ' The Seven Lamps of Architecture , ' which was the earliest of Ruskin's books that was welcomed with practical warmth on its ...
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... edition of three thousand . Though it was heavily bombarded by the Times , ' it proved ' Mrs. Gaskell's ' Life of Charlotte Brontë , ' ed . Shorter , pp . 460 sq . successful and at once reached a second edition . In xxii Memoir of ...
... edition of three thousand . Though it was heavily bombarded by the Times , ' it proved ' Mrs. Gaskell's ' Life of Charlotte Brontë , ' ed . Shorter , pp . 460 sq . successful and at once reached a second edition . In xxii Memoir of ...
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... edition of 2,500 copies.2 Thenceforth he was on close terms of intimacy with Thackeray . He was often at his house , and showed as tender a consideration for the novelist's young daughters as for himself . Esmond ' appeared in 1852 and ...
... edition of 2,500 copies.2 Thenceforth he was on close terms of intimacy with Thackeray . He was often at his house , and showed as tender a consideration for the novelist's young daughters as for himself . Esmond ' appeared in 1852 and ...
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