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Excerpt from Fifty Years' Recollections of an Old Bookseller: Consisting of Anecdotes, Characteristic Sketches, and Original Traits and Eccentricities of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the Last Half Century, With Appropriate Selections
In interweaving the Author's life throughout the following recollections and selections, it is requisite to say something of himself and family. However humble their origin and pretensions, some interesting branches may spring out of the genealogic tree; we shall not trace them with the ardour of a newly made peer - 4 page or me will suffice.
Some branches of the Author's Family have been remark able for longevity, others through matrimonial ties, have been particularly noticed as early settlers, and as having been longer residents upon one spot than any family in England, and others as persons of travel but the whole are now(vi)
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