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Total number of records: 450

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Books and printed items225
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Textiles5
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Brotherton Collection103
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English Literature32
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Letters Database25
Leeds Russian Archive21
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Quaker Collection9
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world war, 1914-191845
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Delarue, Charles12
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Laing, John (1809-1880)7
Rhodes, Dennis E (1923-)7
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)7
Simoni, Anna E C7

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Up to 189969
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Up to latest58
Union News, issue 273
Archive Item

Archive File

Archive Print piece

The Winter's Tale. I. ii. 273 - I. ii. 388

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (280)

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Archive File

Ink scores in music

1942

MS book. On the front cover is written "Overture: / As You Like It / & / student exercises / 1941-42" and "James C. Brown / St. John's College, / Cambridge". Overture to Shakespeare's As You Like It 1...

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Archive File

English-German-French-Italian polyglot dictionary arranged according to meaning; compiled by Robert Aspin Freeman

Freeman, Robert Aspin (1854-1943)

c.1920

Material on the verso of the last leaf in each binder is repeated on the verso of the first leaf in the next, which is not included in foliation. Compiler's signature on the title-page

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shawl sample
Textile

shawl sample

19th Century

Wool or cashmere shawl border sample piece with running leaves and flowers. Two wide borders divided by two narrow borders. Patterning in dark green, brown and white on a green ground.

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Textile

The Textile Institute, Lieut. Harry Dent Crompton Prize Fund Scheme, Design and Structure of Woven Fabrics, Reference Collection No.17

The Textile Institute

1935

String bound book with brown covers with black text on front cover. Containing samples of patterned clothing, furnishing and household fabrics. 13 pages.

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Textile

Été 1956 Envoi 1

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1956

Softback with buff coloured covers. Black text on cover. Contains fabric samples most of which are patterned with various plaids, a few have paisley designs, stripes or small geometric motifs. Patt...

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beti
Textile

beti

late 20th Century

A beti (a multifunctional cloth with two cotton panels sewn together along the warp sides). The pattern consists of two panels in mauve on black, showing warp ikat bowls of fruit and birds in folage; ...

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Archive Series

Mathematical Notebooks

Jun 1902 - 1915

Collections of mathematical equations, diagrams, newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to mathematics.

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Archive Item

Gregory King and Clarencieux King.

1921-1925

[c.1921-1925] TS 7 ff Dated from address, on f 1r, 'B Dobrée Esq., Larrau, par Licq, Basses Pyrénées, France.'

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