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Alexander Macdonald , 1st Baron Macdonald of Slate|Thomas Rowlandson|James Boswell|Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck|Samuel Collings|Elizabeth Jackson

Frontispiece, Revising for the Second Edition (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)

June 15, 1786
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25.4 × 27 cm (10 × 10.6 in)

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