Some Account of My Life and Writings: An Autobiography, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1883 - Historians |
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Page 541 - PEOPLE'S EDITION, 31s. 6d. Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Portraits and Maps, 30s. Essays : Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. 3 vols. demy 8vo, 45s. ACROSS FRANCE IN A CARAVAN : BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY FROM BORDEAUX TO GENOA IN THE " ESCARGOT," taken in the Winter 1889-90. By the Author of