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Shire Library no. 724.    ISBN-13: 978 0 74781 218 0

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All images are from the author’s collection, except for the image on page 52, which is fromWikipedia Commons, and the cover image, which is courtesy ofThe Fine Art Society/The Bridgeman Art Library.

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