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It is not very often people break forth into these novel dedications. One of the most original - andy et obvious - I know was done by Georg e Wither, who dedicated a book to himself. Gthis was Abuses Stript and It was his first book, and he y twenty-three years of age. He had no repu tation, and few friends, so he cheered himself up by writing himself a dedication of nine pages, beginning thus: To him selfe, G. W. Wisheth all happiness. He begins.
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