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![[Picture: A Fair Reader]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-Atalanta-1888/pages/450a-A-Fair-Reader/450a-A-Fair-Reader-q90-398x500.jpg "[Picture: A Fair Reader]")
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A Fair Reader—perhaps a somewhat sexist caption by today’s standards! A lady, presumably fair or beautiful, is sitting at a desk holding an open book, reading; other books lie on the desk in front of her in a pile. She wears a bonnet with a boe.
