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| Title | Crosspatch the Cricket and the Counterpane: A Patchwork of Story and Song Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| Author | Frances Freeling Broderip |
| Illustrated by | Tom Hood, Charles A. Ferrier |
| Publisher | Griffith and Farran, (successors to Newbery & Harris), 1865 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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