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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

So I away to the Temple to my new bookseller's, and there I did agree
for Rycaut's late history of the Turkish Policy, which costs me 55s.;
whereas it was sold plain before the late fire for 8s., and bound and
coloured as this is for 20 ...
		-- Pepys' Diary, 8 Apr. 1667

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