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Source Library: Bodleian Library (Oxford)
ESTCID: N000071
Notes: Author of The gamester = Susanna Centlivre. P.64 misnumbered 94. With a half-title. Narcissus Luttrell's copy dated by him 4 Dec. 1705.
Imprint: London : printed for William Turner at the Angel at Lincolns-Inn-Back-Gate; and sold by J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1706 [1705]. Collation: [12], 94 [i.e. 64] p. ; 4°