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Various >> Notes and Queries 1850.04.06
"William Ayscough, father of the printer of this _Catalogus Stirpium_
(G. Ayscough), in 1710, first introduced the art of printing at
Nottingham.
"Mr. White was the same year the first printer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
and Mr. Dicey at Northampton."--_MS. Note in the Copy of the Cat.
Stirpium, in the Library of the British Museum_.
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Mills, Rev. Isaac, of Highcleer--Account of the Life and Conversation
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Mykur Hazem, by Marcus, London, 1846.
Poems by a Bornnatural, 1849.
_ODD VOLUMES_.
Proceedings of the Philological Society. Vol. I.
Richardson's Correspondence, Vol. I. of the Six-Volume Ed.
Todd's Johnson's Dictionary, 4to., 1819. (Part X. containing Title,
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Partington's British Cyclopaedia--That portion of Natural History which
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XI. LOUIS PHILIPPE.
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