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De regimine principum : a poem

Hoccleve, Thomas (1370?-1450?); Wright, Thomas (1810-1877); Giles of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges (1243-1316); Jacobus de Cessolis (1288-1322); Roxburghe Club

1860

Listed as no. 79 in the club's Catalogue of books, 1898. Addressed to Henry V. while Prince of Wales.

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Poems by John Nicholson, the Airedale poet

Nicholson, John (1790-1843); James John F.S.A

1844

With 16 p. list of subscribers.

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A week at Harrogate : a poem, in a series of letters, with an appendix

Hofland, Mrs (1770-1844)

[not before 1818]

Frontispiece of High and Low Harrogate.

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The English Lake District as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth

Knight, William Angus (1836-1916); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

1878

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[YAHS pamphlets box 86E7, Yorks dialect, prose, poems etc]

Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society

[1950?]

Title from label on original enclosure.

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Florio: a tale, for fine gentlemen and fine ladies: and, The bas bleu; or, Conversation. Two poems

More, Hannah (1745-1833); More, Hannah (1745-1833)

1787

Dedication signed Hannah More, January 27, 1786. Includes bibliographical references.

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England and America

T. B

[1874?]

Poem. Caption title.

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The Great North Road [uncorrected proof copy]

Morley, F V (1899-1980)

1961

Cover title.

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A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the county of Kent

Parish, W D (1833-1904); Shaw, W F (1839-1904)

1888

"Dick and Sal at Canterbury fair", poem by J.W. Masters: p. [xiii]-xxiv.

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Chorea gigantum : or, The most famous antiquity of Great-Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restored to the Danes

Charleton, Walter (1619-1707); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Herringman, Henry (1704)

1663

A reply to Inigo Jones's "The most notable antiquity of Great Britain". Text preceded by two poems addressed to Charleton by Robert Howard and John Dryden respectively. First edition. The commen...

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Horace Walpole's cat

Frayling, Christopher; Bentley, R (1708-1782); Blake, William (1757-1827); Hale, Kathleen (1898-2000); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

2009

Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index. "The tragic death of Walpole's cat and the Thomas Gray poem written in her honor: the true story of what happened, and a look at the lively s...

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