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The Third Man

John Jolliffe DOUGLAS JERROLD, 1803-1857 by Michael Slater Duckworth, £25, pp. 340, ISBN 0715628240 I n the 1840s and 50s, Douglas Jerrold, Dickens and Thackeray were the three......

An Early Lead Lost

Geoffrey Owen HOSIERY AND KNITWEAR: FOUR CENTURIES OF SMALLSCALE INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN, 1589-2000 by Stanley Chapman OUP, 1:55, pp. 328, ISBN 0199255679 I n 1926 Simon Marks, head......