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| Title | History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, Volume 1 |
| Author | William Cobbett |
| Publisher | William Cobbett, 1830 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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