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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture30
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society14
Brotherton Collection9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections8
Ripon Cathedral1

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architecture28
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Bigland, John28
Bigland, John (1750-1832)28
Brayley, E W (1773-1854)28
Brayley, E. W28
Brewer, James Norris28
Brewer, James Norris (1829-)28
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Britton, John (1771-1857)28
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Weston Rhyn Response Book - 11Sa1

Sykes, Donald Richard

2 Nov 1954 - 3 Nov 1954

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry (v.1)

Howitt, William (1792-1879)

1856

Volume 1 is 3rd edition. Published as 1st and 2d series, respectively; prefaces dated 1839 and 1841.

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Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry (v.2)

Howitt, William (1792-1879)

1856

Volume 1 is 3rd edition. Published as 1st and 2d series, respectively; prefaces dated 1839 and 1841.

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A journey through England : In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad (v.1)

Macky, John (1726)

1732

Dedication signed: J. Macky. London, 1724.

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Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland (v.1)

Gilpin, William (1724-1804)

1792

Aquatints by Samuel Alken; after drawings by Gilpin. One plate (cow's head) by Sawrey Gilpin.--cf. Barbier, C.P. William Gilpin. Oxford, 1963, p. 77.

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Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland (v.2)

Gilpin, William (1724-1804)

1792

Aquatints by Samuel Alken; after drawings by Gilpin. One plate (cow's head) by Sawrey Gilpin.--cf. Barbier, C.P. William Gilpin. Oxford, 1963, p. 77.

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Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland (v.1)

Gilpin, William (1724-1804)

1789

Aquatints by Samuel Alken; after drawings by Gilpin. One plate (cow's head) by Sawrey Gilpin.--cf. Barbier, C.P. William Gilpin. Oxford, 1963, p. 77.

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Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland (v.2)

Gilpin, William (1724-1804)

1789

Aquatints by Samuel Alken; after drawings by Gilpin. One plate (cow's head) by Sawrey Gilpin.--cf. Barbier, C.P. William Gilpin. Oxford, 1963, p. 77.

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Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry

Howitt, William (1792-1879); Williams, Samuel (1788-1853)

1840

Title vignette of Wolsey blessing children. Spine title: Howitt's visits to remarkable places. Publisher's advertisement insert between p. iv and v. Publisher's advertisement: p. [1-2], plus 16 ...

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