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Total number of records: 314

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items287
Archives27

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection165
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive18
Herbert Read Collection9
Leeds Russian Archive8
English Literature6
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Ripon Cathedral6
Incunabula5
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History3
Leeds Poetry3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
printing314
incunabula62
printers34
type and type-founding31
books24
bibliography20
rare books16
dutch literature14
printing methods14
english literature11

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain12
London, United Kingdom10
Bristol (England)5
Gloucestershire (England)5
England4
France4
Italy3
Soviet Union3
Augsburg (Germany)2
Cambridge (England)2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)23
Haebler, Konrad (1857-1946)15
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)14
Campbell, Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus (1819-1890)14
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)11
Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)11
Timperley, Charles Henry10
Campbell, Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus9
Herbert, William (1718-1795)9
Kronenberg, M E (1881-1970)9

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17003
From 1800107
From 1900202
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17993
Up to 1899102
Up to 1999202
Up to latest7

Archive Sub-collection

Andrew Gurr Papers

1962-2006

Papers relating to Northern House formerly in the possession of its co-founder, Andrew Gurr. Includes drafts relating to the first 5 Northern House publications (1964); press cuttings; samples of item...

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Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke with Shakespeare

Mar 1851

Two copies of an engraving on paper of Mary Cowden Clarke being crowned with a wreath by Shakespeare while she writes, printed by Bobbett and Edmonds of New York after a drawing by her sister Emma Alo...

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Miscellaneous Papers

c.1964-1988

Mixed papers relating to Northern House publishing. Includes statements from Northern Rock Building Society and the Nat West Bank; invoices and payment/remittance advice; correspondence/estimates from...

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Productions of the School of English Press, Printsoc, Northern House

September 1962 - February 1965

Samples of items produced by the School of English Press, Leeds University Union Printsoc and Northern House on presses in the School of English, University of Leeds. These items were collected by And...

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Diana Bloomfield to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1950

Handwritten letter from the wood engraver Diana Bloomfield to Maurice de Sausmarez, enclosing twelve samples of wood engravings, some of which are bookplates.

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Henry Holzer to Maurice de Sausmarez

1959

Lithographic printed greetings card by and from the artist Henry Holzer to Maurice de Sausmarez, titled 'Morning' and handwritten letter to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez, apologising for not being abl...

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Archive Print Item

Cancels

Chapman, R W (1881-1960)

1930

With eleven facsimiles in collotype.

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The "Costerian" Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei : reproduced in collotype facsimile

Alexandre de Villedieu; Gaselee, S (1882-1943); Roxburghe Club

1938

Original described by Gesamtkatalog no. 935. Title in red and black.

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Aspects of French eighteenth century typography : a study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library

Dreyfus, John; McKitterick, David; Roxburghe Club

1982

Spine title: French eighteenth century typography. "Dedicated and presented to the president and members of the Roxburghe Club by John Ehrman, 1982"--P.[v]. Bibliography: p. 110-113.

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Iceland

Benedikz, Benedikt S (1932-)

1969

Bibliography: p. 64.

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