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I bought some more Folio Society books in a second-hand bookshop last week – so now I can just fill two shelves.
(And I have actually read some of them – but not many.)

A paraphrase, and annotations upon all the books of the New Testament, 1653 (Title)
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In The Wolf Library’s George Wythe Collection. W&M Library catalog record.

Image from page 211 of “A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans” (1915)
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Title: A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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impress vividly on his mind theform and relative extent of the national territory after each successiveaddition. When the book is used after the leaves have been cut out, asheet of paper may be laid between pages 200 and 201, and then re-moved and placed, as the lesson progresses, between 202 and 203, 204and 205, 206 and 207. When Washington was a young man, the Frenchclaimed all the land west of the Alleghany Mountains. Ifthe French had succeeded in holding all this westerncountry the United States would always have been onlya little strip of thirteen States along the Atlantic coast,reaching from Maine to Georgia. But by conqueringCanada the English got possession ofall the territory east of the MississippiRiver. This was given up to Englandby the French in the treaty madetwelve years before the Revolu-tionary War. Daniel Boone andother settlers soon after-wards crossed themountains and be-^ gan to take posses-sion of the great West. SEVENTH ADDITION TOTHE UNITED STATES.SEE PAGE 207.

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