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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Robinson Collection of Autographs, Comprising Manuscripts of Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, Etc: Robert Fulton's Own Autograph Copy of His First Steamboat Patent, Dr. T. F. Dibdin's Corrected Proof Sheets of "the Bibliographical Decameron," And Many Rare and Choice Specimens of American, English and French Authors Mounted with two fine cabinet portraits (one India paper) m a double glazed passe partout in tinted mats with gilt edges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.