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BRIDGES, ROBERT.--Achilles in Scyros by Robert Bridges. London: Geo.
Bell & Sons 1892. _12mo, parchment, uncut edges._
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BRIDGES, ROBERT.--The Humours of the Court A Comedy and other poems.
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BRITISH CLASSICS.--[Half title] The British Classics . . . 1803 [-1810]
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BRITISH DRAMA.--The British Drama; comprehending the best Plays in the
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William Miller . . . printed by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh. 1804.
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BRITISH DRAMA.--The Ancient British Drama. London: printed for William
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BRITISH ESSAYISTS.--The British Essayists; with Prefaces, historical and
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BRITISH THEATRE.--[A Collection of one hundred and eighty Plays &c from
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BRITTON, JOHN.--Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities
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BRODRICK, THOMAS.--Historia Sacra: or the Holy History; giving An Exact
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and Appellations, And the true Reasons and Grounds of their Celebration;
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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.--Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London:
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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.--Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell.
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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.--Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. London: Smith,
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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.--Villette. By Currer Bell. London: Smith, Elder &
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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.--The Professor, A Tale. By Currer Bell. . . . London:
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BROOKE, HENRY.--See Moore, Edward.
BROOKES, RICHARD.--The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the
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BROOKES, RICHARD.--The Art of Angling. By R. Brookes, M.D. Now Improved
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BROUGHAM AND VAUX, HENRY PETER, LORD.--Historical Sketches of Statesmen
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BROUGHAM AND VAUX, HENRY PETER, LORD.--Albert Lunel; or, the Chateau of
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BROUGHAM, AND VAUX, HENRY PETER, LORD.--Lives of Men of Letters and
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BROWN, JOHN.--Horae Subsecivae. By John Brown, M.D. . . . A second series.
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BROWN, JOHN J.--The American Angler's Guide; or, Complete Fisher's
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BROWN, JOHN WILLIAM.--The Life of Leonardo da Vinci, with a critical
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BROWN, THOMAS.--A Description of Mr. D[ryde]n's Funeral. A Poem. The
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BROWN, THOMAS.--The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical, In
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Writings. London, Printed for Sam. Briscoe, . . . 1715. _12mo, four
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Frontispieces.
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BROWNE, IRVING.--Doctor Polyanthus, or, Where there's a Will there's a
Way; a farce in two acts. By Irving Browne. Privately printed. [Troy,
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BROWNE, IRVING.--Ballads of A Book-worm Being a Rythmic Record of
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