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- ↑ Tierney, James E., ed. (2004), The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764, Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 115, ISBN 0521522080 , retrieved 24 October 2012
- ↑ Suarez 1997, p. 206.
- ↑ Suarez 1997, pp. 206, 191.