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A Catalogue of miniature portraits in enamel by Henry Bone, esq. R.A. : in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey
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Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839. 1 letter to [Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802-1873], A.L.S. (3 p.), ([1824], Jan. 18), Woburn Abbey (Beds., Eng.)
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