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    • Title:Laconics, or, The best words of the best authors : in three volumes.
    • Edition:Eighth edition.
    • Publication:London : H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, MDCCCLVI [1856]
    • Manufacture: [London] : Printed by J. E. Adlard, Bartholomew Close
    • Physical Description:3 volumes : portraits ; 15 cm
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    • Local Notes:BEIN 2017 591: Imperfect: final leaf of volume 1 wanting. Bookplates: Annie Carroll Graig. From the library of Dr. George W. Hosmer.
    • Notes:Printing statement from colophon.
    • Variant and related titles:Best words of the best authors
    • Format:Book
    • Subjects:Aphorisms and apothegms.
      Quotations.
      Aphorisms and apothegms.
      Quotations.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Graig, Annie Carroll--Bookplate.
      Hosmer, G. W. (George Washington), 1830-1914--Ownership.
    • Also listed under:Timbs, John, 1801-1875, compiler.