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CruikshanKs Comic Almanack. 



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The Cyclopczdia of Costitme ; 



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 tary from, the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George 

 the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on 

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Cnssans Handbook of Heraldry. 



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