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Smith retired from business about 1884, when his stock and copyrights were sold; the "Library of Old Authors" was disposed of to the bookseller William Reeves, and his collection of engravings to Jonathan Nield. He died on 19 October 1894, in
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Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects: Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads by various Writers in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, now first collected, with a copious Glossary
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Bibliotheca Cantiana; or a Bibliographical Account of what has been published on the History, Antiquities, Customs, and Family History of the County of Kent
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Catalogues of secondhand books issued by Russell Smith included: one of topographical prints, drawings, and books printed before 1700 (1849);
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Smith married in 1844 Frances Caigou, daughter of the printer James Daniel Caigou. They had a son and a daughter.
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Bibliographical List of the Works that have been published towards illustrating the Provincial Dialects of England
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Bibliographical Catalogue of English Writers on Angling and Ichthyology
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Index

Sevenoaks
Wardour Street
Old Compton Street
topography
philology
John Sheepshanks
Archæological Association
Thomas Wright
Mark Anthony Lower
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Arthur Henfrey
Soho Square
Kentish Town
British Museum
Robert Nares
William Barnes
Edward Johnston Vernon
Joseph Bosworth
Chiswick Press
Robert Blakey





Lee, Sidney
"Smith, John Russell" 
Dictionary of National Biography

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