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| Title | Pictures in print, being recollections in rhyme and pencillings in prose |
| Author | John Gibson (of Kilmarnock.) |
| Publisher | M. Wilson, 1851 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 184 pages |
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