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| Title | Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures, tr. and abridged by R. White |
| Author | François Xavier de BURTIN |
| Editor | Robert WHITE (Of Edinburgh.) |
| Publisher | Longman & Company, 1845 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 338 pages |
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