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Joshua Kirby Baldrey|Francis Jukes|Robert Chilton|Samuel Vince

Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

November 10, 1786
Aquatint printed in brown ink
32.8 × 39.4 cm (12.9 × 15.5 in)

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