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    PH 1620 THe Publishers' Circular Dec. 31...

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    on Italian folk-songs . ; Messrs Major . Chapman Walford »— __ has Hall just —¦ ' ¦ s comp Military leted Bio for i -

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1885, page 1620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121885/page/4/