Pages 13 and 14 from Vernon Lee's The Ballet of the Nations (1915), illustrated by Maxwell Armfield.

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Pages 13 and 14 from Vernon Lee's The Ballet of the Nations (1915), illustrated by Maxwell Armfield.

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1915

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The Ballet of the Nations


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