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Eight Days' Sale of highly interesting British Historical Portraits,
forming the second portion of the very important and valuable Stock of
Prints, the property of Messrs. W. and G. Smith, the long-established,
well-known, and eminent print-sellers of Lisle-street, having retired
from business.

MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and Co., auctioneers of literary property and