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| Title | The merry tales of the wise men of Gotham [by A.B.] ed. by J.O. Halliwell |
| Author | A. B |
| Editor | James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps |
| Published | 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2007 |
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