Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850
Various
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MONUMENTAL BRASSES and SLABS: an Historical and Descriptive Notice of
the Incised Monumental Memorials of the Middle Ages. With upward of 200
Engravings.
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By the same Author, to be completed in Four Parts, CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS
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THE ROMANCE of the PEERAGE; or, Curiosities of Family History. by GEORGE
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Volume IV., completing the work, is in the press.
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