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Title: Fifty Years Ago

Author: Walter Besant

Release date: March 6, 2019 [eBook #59020]

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Note:

Text on cover added by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.

THE PRINCESS VICTORIA IN 1830

(From the Picture by Richard Westall, R.A., at Windsor Castle.)

FIFTY YEARS AGO

BY
WALTER BESANT
AUTHOR OF ‘ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN’ ETC.

Windsor Castle

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE