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- noun Archaic spelling of
book .
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Examples
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There came to light about the yeare of Christ 1561, a very deformed impe, begotten by a certain Pedlar of Germany: namely a booke of German rimes of al that euer were read the most filthy and most slanderous against the nation of Island.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There came to light about the yeare of Christ 1561, a very deformed impe, begotten by a certain Pedlar of Germany: namely a booke of German rimes of al that euer were read the most filthy and most slanderous against the nation of Island.
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Here endeth the fourteenth booke, which is of Syr Percyval.
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_ "" For the dressing of ij books whereof oon is called la forteresse de Foy and the other called the booke of Josephus, iij_s. _ iiij_d.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an historiographer, should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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There came to light about the yeare of Christ 1561, a very deformed impe, begotten by a certain Pedlar of Germany: namely a booke of German rimes of al that euer were read the most filthy and most slanderous against the nation of Island.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Canada which is described in that Mappe is not marked as it is in my booke, which is agreeable to the booke of Iaques Cartier: and that the sayd Chart doth not marke or set downe The great Lake, which is aboue the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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** An anfwcr to Matter John de Albines, notable difcourfe againft herefies (as his frendes call his booke) compiled by Thomas bpark paftor of Blechley in the County of Buck.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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146 Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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The "booke" presented by Heywoode to the Marquis of Winchester was _A
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