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Title: A history of advertising from the earliest times : illustrated by anecdotes, curious specimens and biographical notes
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Sampson, Henry, 1841-1891
Subjects: Advertising
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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With Introduc-tion by Francis Douce, and descriptive text. Reprinted from theoriginal, with the Woodcuts, and the 32 Plates, from the originalCoppers, in crown 4to, half Roxburghe, price 12s. 6d. LES MISERABLES. Complete in Three Parts. Victor Hugos Fantine. Now first pub-lished in an English Translation, complete and unabridged, with theexception of a few advisable omissions. Post 8vo, illustratedboards, 2s. This work has something more than the beauties of an exquisite.^tyle or theword-compelling power of a literary Zeus to recommend it to the tender care of adistant posterity : in dealing with all the emotions, passions, doubts, fears, which goto make up our common humanity, M, Victor Hugo has stamped upon every pagethe Hall-mark of genius and the loving patience and conscientious labour of a trueartist. But the merits of Les Miserables do not merely consist in the conceptionof it as a whole ; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.—Quarterly Review. Victo

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