Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 |
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Page 419 - Vols. I. and II.— Autobiography and Annals. Portrait. Vol. III.— Faust. Complete. . Vol. IV.— Novels and Tales : containing Elective Affinities, Sorrows of Werther, The German Emigrants, The Good Women, and a Npuvelette.