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    fanciful bindings and picturesque ' get up . '

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    volumes well adapted for the Christmas season .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1888, page 1515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121888/page/21/