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Total number of records: 91754

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items63331
Archives28042
Art items318
Objects57
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection89715
English Literature17578
Herbert Read Collection16434
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4597
Letters Database4487
Leeds Poetry4271
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1722
Rudolf Laban Collections963
ApIvor Collection527
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse185

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1813
letters1313
romanies1155
art916
poets, english811
english literature684
pre-raphaelites663
letter662
sermons, english589
english drama568

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2580
France354
England352
London, United Kingdom305
Sheffield (England)304
Genoa, Italy295
Europe289
Yorkshire (England)202
Spain181
Rome173

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1370
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1079
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)942
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)750
Stoker, Bram708
Sala, George Augustus505
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum442
Great Britain440
Amsterdam (Netherlands)396
Great Britain. Parliament390

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Earliest dateCount
From 1500706
From 16006428
From 17008573
From 180026729
From 190046971
From 20002347

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Up to 991
Up to 9991
Up to 1599633
Up to 16996220
Up to 17997928
Up to 189923695
Up to 199949224
Up to latest4051

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Foreign (Brotherton Collection)

1500-1899

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Kingdom come

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1980

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Speak for England : an essay on England, 1900-1975 : based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1976

First published: Secker & Warburg : London, 1976.

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How to enjoy novels

Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)

1984

Bibliography: p151-152. - Includes index.

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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser (v. 5)

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Gilfillan, George (1813-1878)

1859

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The seventh seal (Det sjunde inseglet)

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1993

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Hudibras. In three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended: with large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.1)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766)

1744

Cuts by Hogarth. By Samuel Butler.

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Hudibras. In three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended: with large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.2)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766)

1744

Cuts by Hogarth. By Samuel Butler.

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Hudibras : in three parts, written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.1)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766); Vertue, George (1684-1756)

1744

Vol. 2 imprint reads printed in London by J. Bettenham (for the same booksellers as vol. 1). Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue; the illustrations are engraved by J....

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Hudibras : in three parts, written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.2)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766); Vertue, George (1684-1756)

1744

Vol. 2 imprint reads printed in London by J. Bettenham (for the same booksellers as vol. 1). Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue; the illustrations are engraved by J....

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Josephine Butler has her say about her contemporaries

Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey (1828-1906); Burton, Margaret (1892-)

1972

Cover title.

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