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Murray, Lindley (1745-1826)81
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)32
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Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)14
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)13
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)12
Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901)10
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Education, early

Books and periodicals date from between the years 1625 and 1988. The bulk of the collection (around three-quarters) was published in the 19th- and late 18th-century. The collection consists mainly of ...

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The schoolmaster : or, A plain and perfect way of teaching children to understand, write, and speak the Latin tongue

Ascham, Roger (1515-1568); Upton, James (1670-1749); Master, Thomas (1603-1643); Savile, Sir Henry (1549-1622)

1711

Joanni Sturmio, Rogerus Afchamus. S. P. D. [T. Master], D. Henrici Savilii...Oratio Coram Regina Elizabetha. Oxoniihabita, anno 1592, Septemb. 23:40 p. at end.

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The book of entertaining knowledge

1848

Wood engravings: frontispiece, plates, added illustrated t.p., title vignette, and illustrations. Publisher's catalog: 6 p. at end.

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Famous London merchants : a book for boys

Bourne, H R Fox (1837-1909)

1869

Contents: Sir Richard Whittington.--Sir Thomas Gresham.--Sir Edward Osborne.--Sir William Herrick.--Sir Thomas Smythe.--Sir Henry Garway.--Sir Dudley North.--Thomas Guy.--William Beckford.--Henry Thor...

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A modern Mr Greatheart

Brooke-Hunt, Violet (1910); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee

[1900]

"Published under the direction of the Tract Committee" - title-page.

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901)

[1910?]

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The pied piper of Hamelin

Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901); Evans, Edmund (1826-1905)

[1889]

Date from Broughton. "Published by arrangement with the Proprietors of the Copyright"--p. [4].

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A little princess : being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924); Piffard, Harold

1905

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The adventures of Don Quixote, adapted from Motteux's translation. With illustrations by Paul Hardy

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718)

1911

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