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Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711

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  • Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • At a Great Exhibition a shopkeeper sells enemas concealed in hollow volumes of classic literature for purposes of discretion. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1844.
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    Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

    | Date: 1825 | Reference: 546738i
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    Eminent literary and scientific men of France.

    | Date: 1838-1839
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    Letters describing the character and customs of the English and French nations. With a curious essay on travelling; and a criticism [in French and English] of Boileau's description of Paris. Translated from the French / [Anon].

    Muralt, Béat Louis de, 1665-1749. | Date: 1726
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    At a Great Exhibition a shopkeeper sells enemas concealed in hollow volumes of classic literature for purposes of discretion. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1844.

    Vernier, Charles, 1831-1887. | Date: 1844 | Reference: 16817i
    Part of: Souvenirs de l'exposition
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