The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 8J. Murray, 1898 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 8 The Works of Lord Byron, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Author | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
| Editors | Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1898 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2007 |
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