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WILLIAM TELL: OR, SWISSERLAND DELIVERED. 1ST ENGLISH ED. 1809

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WILLIAM TELL: OR, SWISSERLAND DELIVERED. 1ST ENGLISH ED. 1809

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[ANTIQUARIAN] WILLIAM TELL: OR, SWISSERLAND DELIVERED; Be the Chevalier De Florian... A posthumos work. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author, by Jauffret.
Translated from the French by William B. Hewetson.
Published for Shrewood, Neely, and Jones; London, 1809.

Half leather. Rebound with original(?) floral decorated boards. Period endpaper bound in.
pp.: [1], half title, frontispiece by Thomson after MacKenzie, title page, [xxxvi] 115, [3 pages of ads], endpaper.
A nice tight copy, with ink name (fading) at top of title.

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WILLIAM TELL: OR, SWISSERLAND DELIVERED. 1ST ENGLISH ED. 1809

Name: WILLIAM TELL: OR, SWISSERLAND DELIVERED. 1ST ENGLISH ED. 1809
SKU: 152961887
Price: 800 CAD
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