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Adventure stories, English - Early works to 1800

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    The adventures of Roderick Random. ..

    Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-1771. | Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
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    The adventures of Proteus, &c. A set of novels, never before published.

    Herberts, Mary | Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]
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    The life and adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves . Illustrated with Copper Plates. By the Author of Roderick Random.

    Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-1771. | Date: 1762
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    The blue shop; or, Impartial and humorous observations on The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine , with the real motives which gave rise to his abuse of our distinguished patriotic characters; together with a full and fair review of his late Scare-crow. By James Quicksilver.

    James Ph. Puglia | Date: August 1796
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    The uncommon adventures oF Miss Kitty F****r

    | Date: 1759
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