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The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time (1890)

Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 130

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