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| Title | The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 5 |
| Editor | Tobias Smollett |
| Contributors | Richard Baldwin, Archibald Hamilton |
| Publisher | R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1817 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Mar 2008 |
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