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- ↑ Elton, Charles Isaac, The great book-collectors (Large paper ed.), b K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, retrieved 25 October 2016
- ↑ Charles Isaac Elton; Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914; Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection (Library of Congress); Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) (1893), The great book-collectors, London K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd, retrieved 25 October 2016
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Elton, Charles Isaac, 1839–1900 (1893), The great book-collectors / by Charles Isaac Elton & Mary Augusta Elton, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd, retrieved 25 October 2016
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Project Gutenberg
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