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    have issued a rather remarkable catalogue , of books , I in 200 Eng page lish s and of American close print law . , The extending distinguishing to above

    feature of the catalogue is the arrangement of the books according to the legal names of them . Messrs 4 Lawyers . Clarke frequentl & Co y . lose remark time in in their trying preface to find :

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    names as many as are * necessary , and have , whenever useful , gone into the contents of the book , and even classified its

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    and agreeable from the and reflections useful conversations ttiua made springs in the world ono of . the <» The edition is of the miniaturvolumes whiclj

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1884, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051884/page/10/