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| Title | On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, Volume 1 On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its Improvement, Samuel Bailey |
| Author | Samuel Bailey |
| Publisher | Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 13, 2007 |
| Length | 266 pages |
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