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Brotherton Collection114
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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)38
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Barry, Michael V (1935-)9
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Notes, typescript and galley proofs of the 'Dictionary of modern colloquial French' by Edwin A. Lovatt

Lovatt, Edwin A (1944-)

198-?

Also known as:Dictionary of modern colloquial French

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Yorkshire dialect bibliography, by Frank James Taylor

Taylor, Frank James (1916-1926)

c.1920

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Dialect writings by Frederic William Moorman

Moorman, Frederic William (1872-1919)

c.1900-1920

Poems: (1) Nests (2 ff.); (2) The exile (2 ff.); (3) Blind (2 ff.); (4) The organ-grinder (2 ff.); (5) The organ-grinder [another version] (2 ff.); (6) [Untitled. Begins: "Within the city's precincts...

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Five notebooks compiled by Charles Edward Gough, mainly on Germanic philology, 1903-1907

Gough, Charles Edward (1875-1957)

1903-1907

1. Ein Auszug aus der Formenlehre des Gotischen, Althochdeutschen, Mittelhochd., Altenglischen & Altsächischen (including a loose comparative table in pocket at end), 1903-4. 2. Old English phonolog...

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A bibliography of Albert Hugh Smith, believed to have been compiled by Joseph William Scott

Scott, Joseph William

c.1967

Marked 'Festschrift'; perhaps originally intended for 'Early English and Norse studies presented to Hugh Smith'(1963), but not used

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Engelsk-dansk ordbog

Kjærulff Nielsen, B (1906-); Axelsen, Jens; Bodelsen, C A (1894-1978)

1964

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