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AUGUST 2016 - 32 items offered...
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2 WATERCOLOURS
8 MANUSCRIPTS
2 PHOTOS
15
BOOKS
1 MAP
2 EPHEMERA
2 PRINTS
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CADDY, John Herbert [1801-1883]
A beautiful pair of mid nineteenth century Niagara Falls watercolour views by a renowned British/Canadian landscape artist who documented in watercolours, a number in the Hamilton and Niagara area. Both trimmed to image, each 30 x 43.5 cm (12 x 17 inches), unframed. Both unsigned, common for John Caddy watercolours.
#1) American Falls View. [Left view]
#2) Canadian Falls View. [Right view]
Captain John Herbert Caddy (1801-1883) was a painter, draftsman, illustrator and educator.
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Price: $ 7,550 USD
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JAMESON, Mrs. Anna Brownell, (née Murphy) [1794-1860] & COLNAGHI, Dominic Charles [1790-1879]
Letter Oct 10, 1828,
Autograph Letter Signed Anna Jameson, to Mr. Colnaghi in Cockspur Street, declining absolutely the proposition you made to me yesterday ; in accepting the sacrifice would be too great and on calculation I should be a loser by it, and giving him a day to respond to her counter-offer although I understand yesterday that the offer, you made was your definative. 2-1/2 pages, stained some fading as a result but legible
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Price: $ 205 USD
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MILNES, Richard Monckton, 1st Baron Houghton (1809- 1885)
[1852]. Autograph letter signed. Dated Bawley, October 9th [1852]. Two pages, flat 6 x 7 1/2 inches folded once to 6 x 3-3/4 inches, very good condition. One page unwritten. back page mounted to another paper. It reads: "Dear Sir/ I shall be happy to join the Committee of the Free Library for Marylebone though fear that I am too busy to be of much use to them. I remain..."
Monkton Milnes was a writer and parliamentarian. He was involved in many of the issues of his day. In the DCB it is noted that "his chief distinctions were his keen sense of literary merit in others, and the judgment and magnanimity with which he fostered it...
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Price: $ 175 USD
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FBLIND, Karl (1826-1907)
1881.
Autograph letter signed. Two pages, flat size 8 7/8 x 7 inches and now only folded once to 4 1/2 x 7 inches, (attached to page). Dated near Swiss Cottage Station, Dec[ember] 15, [18]81. To the publisher John Henry Ingram. Arranging to meet, and noting: "I do not know whether you care for Folklore...
Karl Blind (1826-1907) was a German revolutionist and writer on politics, history, mythology and German literature...
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Price: $ 175 USD
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MANNERS, Violet [née Lindsay], (Marion Margaret) Duchess of Rutland [1856-1937] & MICKLE, Sara (Sarah) [1853-1930] (provenance)
1891-1901. A group of four items, all relating to a request from Sara Mickle of Toronto relating to a calendar she is proposing to create with mention of Lady Granby.
1) 7 x 4-1/2 inches, Violet Granby. Autograph letter signed. Two pages. Dated Thursday [December 1898].
2) 8 x 5 inches. E. Routledge to Miss Mickle. Autograph letter signed. One page. Dated Dec[ember] 3, 1898.
3) 8 x 10 inches folded to 8 x 5 inches. Light green paper. with a 3/4 inch tear on right border not affecting any handwriting. [Draft?]
4) 7 x 8-7/8 inches flat folded to 7 x 4-5/8 inches. Violet Granby. Autograph letter signed. Three pages.
Violet Manners Duchess of Rutland, born Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay, was a British artist and noblewoman.
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Price: $ 175 USD
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WODEHOUSE, Arthur Sutherland Pigott [1895-1964] & FALCONER, Sir Robert Alexander [1867-1943]
[1932]. Autograph letter signed. One page (written on both sides), 4to. No date however Falconer retired in 1932. The University of Toronto Quarterly letterhead. A terrific letter to Robert Falconer the Canadian judge and recently retired President of the University of Toronto, responding to Falconer's submission of memoir of his time as President, and suggesting minor edits.
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Price: $ 175 USD
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CAMPBELL, John George Edward Henry Campbell, Marquess of LORNE and 9th Duke of ARGYLL [1845-1914]
1896. Autograph letter signed. One page, 8vo. Dated Campbelltown September] 1, 1896. Declining an invitation to speak.
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne and later 9th Duke of Argyll, married Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Louise at Windsor in 1871. The marriage was not a success, partly due to the fact that the groom was homosexual...
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Price: $ 175 USD
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DOUGHTY, Sir Arthur George [1860-1936]
[1911]. 5" x 8", 4 page hand-written undated note to Mrs. Ward written on Historical Manuscripts Commission of Canada stationary.
Historical Manuscripts Commission of Canada was formed in 1907 and ceased in 1915. Note not dated so this letter would be circa 1911.
Arthur Doughty was a Canadian civil servant and Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records...
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Price: $ 165 USD
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PARDOE, Julia Sophia [1806-1862]
1854. 7-1/8 x 4-3/8" folded not flat 8-3/8 x 7-1/8 inches, 4 pages, 3 pages written on. Dated May 3,[18]54 on what appears to be her personal note paper with a blind embossed logo at top with initials JSP. A couple of old 1/4 top border paper tears repaired, otherwise very good condition.
A great letter of intrigue with a plea by her to a gentleman about a marriage gone wrong... being never married Pardoe inner feelings are expressed...
Miss Julia Sophia Pardoe began her literary career at an early age. Her volume of poetry ran to a second edition when she was just fourteen years old. However, it is for her historical and travel writing that Pardoe was first recognised and widely renowned...
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Price: $ 165 USD
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JENNINGS, William Nicholson [1860-1946]
[1911]. Five Niagara Falls photos, all signed and or inscribed by Jennings at the reverse. Measurements: Each is 10" x 8". Condition: Very good, some losses and creasing.
In this set there are three similar prints made of of the foot of the American Falls. Three are prints of the same image each with different exposures and thus visual effects...
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Price: $ 500 USD
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ROBINSON, Christopher Blackett [1837-1923]
1907. Two photos, one scrap book plus Robinnson newspaper clipping note. sent to him
Original photograph, 6.25"x8.25". Signed on verso: "With all the Season's best Greetings, Yours very affectionately, C. Blackett Robinson. Xmas 1907". Photo by the studio of W. Notman & Son, Montreal...
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Price: $ 245 USD
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JOUVANCOURT, Hugues de [1918-1978] & HERIOT, George [1766-1844] (subject)
1973. First edition. Approx. 25.5cm x 33.5cm (10 x 13¼ inches) Near Fine. 16pp, 78pp (image on every other page) , 6pp,[4]blank #73 of 110 numbered copies (110 printed numbered and initialed and 10 labeled HC.). Showcase of 39 colour reproductions of watercolours, colour wash drawings and aquatints drawn by George Heriot during his stay in Canada in the early 1800's. Bilingual book (separate French and English pages. Printed on heavy Carlyle Japan paper with deckled edges. Suede slip case and book covers and one of the most attractive to see and touch produced - beautiful!.
This suede-bound limited-edition album provides a showcase for 40 full colour reproductions of watercolours, colour wash drawings and aquatints executed by George Heriot during his stay in Canada.
Hugues de Jouvancourt [1918 - 1978] Canadian, Quebec Listed Artist...
Price: $ 1,500 USD #0953
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WRIGHT, J.F.C. [James Frederick Church] & ROBERTSON, Alexander "Sandy" Duff (1926-1991) & signed by DOUGLAS, Thomas "Tommy" Clement [1904 - 1986]
1955. First edition. Good+ /Very Good-. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Small 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 292pp. Errata slip. Maps, drawings by A.W. Davey, illustrated endpapers,
1958 gift inscription from "Tommy" Douglas to "Sandy" Robertson.
The ffep bears an warm and heart felt inscription " To Dr. "Sandy" Robertson Saskatchewan's most recent acquisition in the field of Social Medicine from [signed] T. C. Douglas Premier of Sask. Sept 24th 1958"
In 1958, Robertson became head of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan where he remained until accepting the executive directorship of the Milbank Memorial Fund in New York City in 1962.
In November 2004 a nation wide vote by over one million Canadians selected Tommy Douglas as "The Greatest Canadian of all Time."...
Price: $ 1,250 USD #1223
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LEMIEUX, Irénée [1931-2005] (artist)
1985.
Québec, Editions la Minerve
OBJET D'ART BOOK - RARE, BEAUTIFUL QUEBEC ART AND POETRY
First edition, first printing. Text in French. Folio 9-3/4 x 12-3/4 inches. No. 7 of 50 copies. Some cover markings, otherwise fine condition. 52 sheets (104 pages). Unpaginated. Plain olive suedene like fabric book cover with front and back with end papers of white simple patterned fabric. Signed, numbered and dated 24 June 1985 by Irénée Lemieux. 38 hand-coloured figurative illustrations, one per page and 15 pages with handwritten text including the title and listed edition pages at the front....
Irenée Lemieux was a Quebec musician, writer, painter, sculptor, researcher, conductor, violinist, and pianist. He was also the author of a dictionary on the wonderful local artists and often very close to his favorite artists, such as its great friend, Jean Paul Riopelle.
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Price: $ 800 USD
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LEMIEUX, Irénée [1931-2005] (artist) & FONTAINE, Dany [1950-] (text)
[1982].
Québec, Editions la Minerve
OBJET D'ART BOOK - RARE, BEAUTIFUL QUEBEC ART AND ILLUSTRATIONS
First edition, first printing. Folio, 9-1/4 x 12-1/2 inches. Black cloth hard backed special binding with a clown holding a small gold chain with small hand-colored ceramic dog on the end of the chain. End papers front and back custom printed 3 colour (red, green, yellow) flannelette fabric material patterned with juvenile images. Fine condition overall. A beautiful unique (no two copies the exact same hand-colouring) object d'art book which is housed in a custom plain, no type, black container box. Unpaginated...
Irenée Lemieux was a Quebec musician, writer, painter, sculptor, researcher, conductor, violinist, and pianist. He was also the author of a dictionary on the wonderful local artists and often very close to his favorite artists, such as its great friend, Jean Paul Riopelle.
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Price: $ 600 USD
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SMILES, Samuel (1812-1904)
1882.
Chicago, U. S. Publishing House
First edition. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. x, 56pp., 6pp., 20pp of subscriber's list with 11 filled out. Original full leather front cover and back cover in cloth with leather corners, both sides with elaborate gilt type.
In this 1882 salesman's selling sample book there are approximately 56 sample pages including the frontis and six other engravings samples provided for potential buyers to understand the contents of the book they would be ordering. At the back of this sample book are testimonials and a subscriber's list of 20 pages of which 11 pages are filled with a written list of subscribers specifying which of the four options of bindings this book was being offered in.
Overall condition is very good.....
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Price: $ 275 USD
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BLOOD, Benjamin Paul (1832-1919) & Napoléon Bonaparte [1769-1821] subject
1863.
Private edition. 9-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches, (3)-[4]-50pp. Self cover, unbound with only string binding along edge. Some old mildew and old water stains primarily in the outside border areas not affecting text otherwise good condition.
Rare to market publication on Napoleon I, Emperor of the French written by an unusual author....
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Price: $ 195 USD
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1866. Montreal, John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street. 10.5cm x 17cm, (4 1/8" x 6 3/4"), xvii, [1]poem, [19]-299pp., Actual photograph of Mr. Moodie affixed in inside front page by publisher as frontispiece portrait. Rebacked with new cloth spine and paper label and end papers preserving the original brown embossed cloth on front and back.
An excellent complete copy of an 1866 book about Susanna Moodie's husband, John W.D. Moodie. In 1832 Moodie emigrated to Canada, where he spent the rest of his life. Several of the essays and sketches here were first published in a journal he published with his wife, Susanna Moodie, who is best remembered for her classic narrative of life in the Canadian wilderness, Roughing It in the Bush (1852).
"Major Moodie left South Africa in 1829 and settled in Canada in 1832. " The bulk of the work recounts his 10 years in South Africa. One chapter is devoted to Dunbar's service during the Napoleonic Wars." ...
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Price: $ 185 USD
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LEMOINE, Sir J(ames). M(acPherson). [1825-1912]
1863. London, Chapman and Hall
A SCARCE BOOK AND THE FIRST OF LEMOINES MAPLE LEAVE SERIES.
8vo., vii, (1pp errata),104pp. (4) [4] leaves of plates including frontispiece,p.45, p.75 &p.85...
A collection of 'intelligence' on various issues and legends of Canadiana, specifically Quebec insights. The substance is often comic, but always informative, and the illustrations are outstanding. This is a remarkable and important collection of essays...
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SHEPPARD, Edmund E(rnest). [1855-1924]
1886. Toronto, The Rose Publishing Company
8.5 x 5.5 inches,. (5}, [3]-135 pages, frontis of author, many b/w illustrations, text in two columns; blue cloth, beveled edges/gilt titles. Gilt decorate cover extremities worn, light soil but still bright, end papers spotted otherwise, very good condition. An uncommon novel.
This was Sheppard's first book, a fiction, "Dolly," which appeared first in serial form in the Toronto "News"....
Sheppard started the famous Canadian Magazine "Saturday Night" in 1887.
Price: $ 175 USD
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SELKIRK, Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of [1771-1820].
1806. Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne & Co.
8.5" x 5.5" (22cm x 14cm). New brown leather spine with title stamped in gild. Preserved the original leather boards and end papers (old plate removed from end papers). (2)blank vii, (1)blank 232, lxi (3) With half title.
He also recognized the need of some controlling hand to direct it. He first conceived the idea of settlement at Red River (what is now Winnipeg) but this did not materialise unitl 1811. The above work was partly written as a defence against various reports which had subsequently been spread concerning his colonization schemes...
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Price: $ 175 USD #0918
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HUNTER, Col. George
1888. Battle Creek, Review & Herald
3rd Edition. 8 x 5 inches, xxv (1), [1]-508 pp. Illustrated, 16 plates including a portrait frontispiece...
Autographed and inscribed by the author using both his Christian name and his Indian name Timus.
Great Classic - Early Northwest historical Americana narrative!
Hunter and his family emigrated overland in 1852. He later mined around Shasta City and Ureka in the 1850's, Shoalwater Bay Oyster Business, Sherriff of Pacific County, Gold Mining at Kootenia British Columbia...
Price: $ 175 USD #1599
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RUTHERFORD, John
1838. 23cm x 18.5cm, (9 x 7 1/4 inches). Soft cover booklet with professional paper repairs on the soft cover spine and some of the right cover and first few pages have been "nibbled at" some time ago...
Condition is good. Inside with 50 pages containing neatly hand-written notes for math lessons with reference drawings with a number of the lessons on trigonometry...
Price: $ 175 USD #4487
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WATTS, Mrs. Alaric (Edited by)
& Miss Strickland [STRICKLAND, Agnes [1796-1874]]
1838. First edition. 3- 3/4 x 6 inches. x, [1], 240pp., 6pp ads. Original half-bound green Turkey morocco with worn corners and front and back boards. Half title, engr. front. & title, all plates present; illustrations slightly spotted. Contemporary gift inscription on leading front end paper - Oct. 1829. Very Good condition overall.
p. 114 Author of the Rival Crusoes [Agnes Strickland [1796-1874]]. Lady Lucy's Petition; [Prose/14 pages]
p. 232 Ms. Strickland, [Agnes]. Christmas Boxes; [Prose/8 pages]...
Price: $ 150 USD #1723
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Toronto Tandem Club
1841. First Edition.
1st Edition, 5-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. (4pp. with title page and members list), [3]-66pp. Contemporary green cloth gilt border on front and back boards and gilt printed lines on spine.
"What made Toronto's club unique was that, during the winters of 1839-40 and 1840-41, its members immortalized their adventures in verse, published as Proceedings of the Toronto Tandem Club. Success attend us, and conduce / To make our winter gay, / And may our Club the seeds produce / Of many a happy day." Such was the raison d'être of the Toronto Tandem Club, as announced at it's first outing by Major Frederick Markham, ...
"Verses, as recited at its meetings, celebrating the activities of this convivial club of limited and military membership." (TPL 2495)
Price: $ 975 USD #7497
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SCADDING, Rev. Henry [1813-1901]
1873. First Edition. 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. xii, 594pp. Half red morocco and pebbled cloth, gilt spine lettering, gilt top-edge, marbled endpapers, steel engraved frontispiece portrait.
Scadding's purpose in writing Toronto of old was to commemorate the city's first European inhabitants, particularly those with "high moral excellence and great usefulness." He wrote almost exclusively about members of the ruling or professional classes and the government bureaucracy, as well as about worthy tradesmen and shopkeepers.
He wanted to preserve their "characteristic sayings, doings, dress and demeanour"... Scadding's book is not mere hagiography. In a leisurely, discursive way, he presents a series of extremely vivid pictures of life in early Toronto. There is much irrelevance, pedantry, and veneration of all things British, but his eye for graphic detail is excellent....
Price: $ 150 USD #3620
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772]
1757. Paper size: 13-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches Image size: 11-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches.
Copper-engraved map, hand colouring in outline. Very good condition.
French and Indian War ear map.
Tome XIV in 4º No.14 Tome 14 in 8º page 191.
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Price: $ 225 USD #3047
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MEIGHEN, Arthur [1874-1960]
MEIGHEN SIGNED PM LETTERS ARE SCARCE TO THE MARKET
8 x 10 inches typed letter signed by Canada Prime Minister Arthur Meighen, dated only nine days after he assumed office - July 19, 1920. Stationery is printed, "Prime Minister's Office, Canada."
Letter is addressed to Freeman I. Davison, President of the Canadian Club of Boston, Massachusetts.
Arthur Meighen, was a lawyer, politician, businessman and Prime Minister of Canada. He was Prime Minister of Canada twice.
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Price: $ 925 USD #7502
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ST. LAURENT, Louis Stephen [1882-1973]
ND, Louis St. Laurent (February 1, 1882 - July 25, 1973), 12th Prime Minister of Canada, signature on Prime Minister 4 x 5 inch card stock
Fine condition.
Louis Stephen St. Laurent, was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from November 15, 1948, to June 21, 1957.
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through Jean Chrétien) of Canada done by Canadian historians....
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Price: $ 175 USD #7496
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COCKBURN, Major-General James Pattison [1778 - 1847] & EDGE, John (engraver)
1857. London, [Rudolph] Ackermann & Co. "This excellent view includes both the Horse-shoe Falls and the American Falls, with Goat Island between. The print gives a true impression of the immense size of the falls, of the enormous power of the falling water, and also of the stupefying noise. 18 Height x 25 Width inches...
Overall, good condition.
Price: $ 975 USD #2675
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ROMNEY, George [1734-1802] (after) & OGBORNE, John (1725-1795) (engraver) & JORDAN, Dorothy (1761-1816) (subject)
1788. London. John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90. Cheapside London.
Stipple engraving in red/brownish ink. Paper size: 19-3/4 x 15 inches ; Image size: 12 x 9-1/2 inches. Printed signature painter George Romney in the lower left edge, and the engraver John Ogborne on the right inside bookplate and outside image. Fine condition.
Dorothy Bland, (Mrs Jordan) as 'Peggy'' in David Garrick's 'The Country Girl. ...
Price: $ 275 USD #7461
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