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There is to be a 2d* Edition of S. & S. egerton advises it.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796
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- Mr* egerton & Mr* walter came at 1#2 past 5, & the festivities began with a pr* of very fine Soals.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796
BKGREEN commented on the word egerton
An egerton first part rhymes with ledgeris a small portable library of classic texts mostly in translation, modelled on the travelling library of Sir Thomas Egerton (1615). See Anthony Hobson, Great Libraries (1970)page 300.
June 25, 2009