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| Title | Hubert Ellis: A Story of King Richard's Days the Second Volume 7 of Beeton's boy's own library Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Opie collection of children's literature ; 029:414 |
| Author | Francis Davenant |
| Publisher | Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1866 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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