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Total number of records: 246

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Books and printed items214
Archives32

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection87
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture31
Quaker Collection28
Herbert Read Collection14
Leeds Russian Archive10
English Literature8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4
Cookery Collection3

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SubjectCount
conduct of life246
persons31
social problems25
aesthetics23
culture23
ethics21
manners and customs19
social life and customs16
children14
folklore14

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Great Britain24
France1
India1
Ireland1
Paris (France)1
Rome1
Russia1
Wales1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)27
Hofland, Mrs (1770-1844)14
Penn, William (1644-1718)11
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)10
Fittler, James (1758-1835)10
Ferri, Giovanni Conte DI San Constant (1755-1830)8
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)8
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevitch Graf (1828-1910)8
Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)7
Turford, Hugh (1713)7

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From 1800200
From 190046

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Up to 199953

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Little foxes, or, The little failings which mar domestic happiness

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

1866

Originally published in the Atlantic monthly, February to September 1865, as part of the author's series "The chimney-corner."

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The cottage in the chalk-pit

Mant, Alicia Catherine (1869)

1825

Steel-engraved frontispiece, dated: 28th May, 1822. "Advertisement" by the author, dated from Lambeth, 27th July, 1821: leaf [2] of preliminaries. Publisher's catalog: [4] p. at end.

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A letter of advice to his grand-children, Matthew, Gabriel, Anne, Mary, and Frances Hale

Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)

1823

Printer's imprint on verso of t.p.: London: Printed by Moyes.

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A paraphrase and comment upon all the Epistles & Gospels, appointed to be used in the Church of England on all Sundays and holy-days throughout the year : Designed to excite devotion, and to promote the knowledge and practice of sincere piety and virtue (v.1)

Stanhope, George (1660-1728); Dove, John Fowler; Nunn, James (fl. 1785-1830); Baynes, W; Walker and Edwards; Cadell & Davies; James Black and Son; Law and Whittaker; Gale and Fenner; Rodwell and Martin (Firm)

1817

"J.F. Dove, printer..." - final page of each vol.

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A paraphrase and comment upon all the Epistles & Gospels, appointed to be used in the Church of England on all Sundays and holy-days throughout the year : Designed to excite devotion, and to promote the knowledge and practice of sincere piety and virtue (v.2)

Stanhope, George (1660-1728); Dove, John Fowler; Nunn, James (fl. 1785-1830); Baynes, W; Walker and Edwards; Cadell & Davies; James Black and Son; Law and Whittaker; Gale and Fenner; Rodwell and Martin (Firm)

1817

"J.F. Dove, printer..." - final page of each vol.

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A paraphrase and comment upon all the Epistles & Gospels, appointed to be used in the Church of England on all Sundays and holy-days throughout the year : Designed to excite devotion, and to promote the knowledge and practice of sincere piety and virtue (v.3)

Stanhope, George (1660-1728); Dove, John Fowler; Nunn, James (fl. 1785-1830); Baynes, W; Walker and Edwards; Cadell & Davies; James Black and Son; Law and Whittaker; Gale and Fenner; Rodwell and Martin (Firm)

1817

"J.F. Dove, printer..." - final page of each vol.

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A paraphrase and comment upon all the Epistles & Gospels, appointed to be used in the Church of England on all Sundays and holy-days throughout the year : Designed to excite devotion, and to promote the knowledge and practice of sincere piety and virtue (v.4)

Stanhope, George (1660-1728); Dove, John Fowler; Nunn, James (fl. 1785-1830); Baynes, W; Walker and Edwards; Cadell & Davies; James Black and Son; Law and Whittaker; Gale and Fenner; Rodwell and Martin (Firm)

1817

"J.F. Dove, printer..." - final page of each vol.

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On faithfulness in little things

Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe- (1651-1715)

1819

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

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An exhortation to the practice of religion

Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)

1826

Smith II, 760.

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William Penn's letter to his wife and children

Penn, William (1644-1718); Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846)

1817

Reprinted from "The life of William Penn" by Thomas Clarkson.

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