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| Title | The Ramble of Philo: And His Man Study. In Two Volumes. ... The ramble of Philo and his man Sturdy [by - Nixon?], Philo (fict.name.) |
| Author | Nixon |
| Publisher | W. Lane, 1788 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 272 pages |
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