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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Eighteenth century collections online |
| Autor | Jonathan Swift |
| Editor | John Morphew, 1711 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 2 Ago. 2007 |
| Largo | 416 páginas |
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