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Book of British poesy, ancient and modern, being select extracts from our best poets, arranged in chronological order

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Book of British poesy, ancient and modern, being select extracts from our best poets, arranged in chronological order
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Description	With an essay on British poetry by George Gilfillan
Shelfmark	ABS.1.81.98
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1851 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Poems Poetry
Person / organisation:	Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878 [Editor] William Tegg & Co. [Publisher] Walker, John (Bookseller in Liverpool) [Bookseller]
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