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The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

by William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Dickens

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The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. [By W. M. Thackeray, with notes by Charles Dickens.] Illustrated by George Cruikshank. British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FIC...

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