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George Cruikshank's Table-book (1869)

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 279

An illustration from George Cruikshank's Table-book, 1869, leaf 279
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