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| Title | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 2 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Edmund Lodge Volume 2 of Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions, Edmund Lodge |
| Author | Edmund Lodge |
| Publisher | Harding and Lepard, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2007 |
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