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|Years.|Stationery.|Printed Books.| Total. |
+------+-----------+--------------+-----------+
| 1827 |_£_195,110 | _£_107,199 |_£_302,309 |
| 1828 | 208,532 | 102,874 | 311,406 |
| 1829 | 190,652 | 109,878 | 300,530 |
| 1830 | 171,848 | 95,874 | 267,722 |
| 1831 | 179,216 | 101,110 | 280,326 |
| 1832 | 177,718 | 93,038 | 270,756 |
| 1833 | 211,518 | 124,535 | 336,053 |
| 1834 | 211,459 | 122,595 | 334,054 |
| 1835 | 259,105 | 148,318 | 407,423 |
| 1836 | 301,121 | 178,945 | 480,066 |
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Till the paper trade shall escape entirely from the clutches of its
antient dry-nurse, the excise, neither it nor the book trade can acquire
the same ascendancy in exportation which all other articles of British
manufactures have over the French.