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| Title | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 1 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Edmund Lodge |
| Author | Edmund Lodge |
| Publisher | Harding and Lepard, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2007 |
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