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The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste (1753)

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Reeves, John, d. 1767 · London : Printed by J. Reeves for the author and sold by him at his house in Leicester-Fields · leaf 39

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