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Coal-tar - Early works to 1800

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    Description of, and directions for using the different kinds of coal tar and varnish, prepared by the British Tar Company, at their works, in Shropshire, Staffordshire, and in Scotland

    British Tar Company. | Date: 1785?]
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    Directions for using coal tar, half stuff, pitch, varnish, and varnish paints. By the Earl of Dundonald

    Dundonald, Archibald Cochrane, Earl of, 1749?-1831. | Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]

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