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A22560 The most delectable and pleasaunt history of Clitiphon and Leucippe: written first in Greeke, by Achilles Statius, an Alexandrian: and now newly translated into English, by VV.B. Whereunto is also annexed the argument of euery booke, in the beginning of the same, for the better vnderstanding of the historie; Leucippe and Clitophon. English Achilles Tatius.; Burton, William, 1575-1645. 1597 (1597) STC 90; ESTC S115403 119,689 162

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