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Total number of records: 155

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Brotherton Collection77
Quaker Collection11
English Literature5
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Art and Antique Market1
LGBTQ1

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church and state4
catholic emancipation3
impeachments3
popish plot, 16783
anti-catholicism2
architecture2
castles2
church architecture2
historic houses2
monasteries2

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Great Britain155
London (England)4
Scotland2
Beverley (England)1
England1
Germany1
Hull (England)1
Ireland1
Irlande1

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Great Britain. Parliament65
Great Britain62
Great Britain. Army18
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)11
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax10
Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)6
James II, King of England, 1633-17015
Society For Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda4
Cole, G D H (1889-1959)3
Prynne, William (1600-1669)3

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From 190015
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A looking-glass for the recorder and justices of the peace, and grand juries for the town and county of Cambridge

Docwra, Anne (1624-1710)

[1682]

Caption title. Signed and dated on p. 9: Anne Docwra, Cambridge the 18th of the 3d moneth, 1682.

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The Arts & Crafts library : a selling exhibition

Jackson, Jeff; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Antique Trader; Millinery Works Ltd.

2006

Essay: Jeff Jackson.

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A choice of design, 1850-1980 : fabrics by Warner & Sons Limited

Bury, Hester; Warner & Sons Limited

[1981]

Published to accompany a touring exhibition. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (1 page).

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Ad populum, or, A lecture to the people

Hausted, Peter (1645); Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Taylor, John (1580-1653)

1644

A verse satire on the state of the realm. The poem has been erroneously attributed to Abraham Cowley and John Taylor, the "water-poet"; another issue of 1644, Madan 1636* "signs" the poem P.H. on p....

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Picture post

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

1938-1957

v.1, no.6 (1938) - v.54, no.4 (1952); June 1, 1957 Wanting: v.1, nos.9,11,13; v.2, nos.1-4,10-11,13; v.3, no.1; v.4, no.8-13; v.5, no.1-5,7-8,10,12; v.8, no.4,11; v.14, no.1,6,9; v.15, no.10; v.17, no...

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First report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of the 58th year of His present Majesty, cap. 91, intituled, an Act for appointing commissioners to inquire concerning charities in England, for the education of the poor (v.25, 1834)

Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to inquire into the education of the poor

1819-1840

"Ordered, by the House of Commons to be printed 4 March, 1819." Reports nos. 3-29 have the running title "Further report of the commissioners for inquiring concerning charities."

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Æsop at Amsterdam, balancing the Æsops at Tunbridg, Bathe, Whitehal, &c

Ludlow Redivivus

1698

"Eleven fables in verse, ridiculing monarchical government" -- BLC, v. 202, p. 197. Possibly a fictitious imprint. Pages 25-39 misnumbered 17-31.

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Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (v.1)

Hearne, Thomas (1744-1817); Byrne, William (1743-1805); Heath, James (1757-1834); Landseer. John (1769-1852); Middiman, Samuel (1750-1831); Medland, Thomas; Sparrow, J T; Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824)

1807

Printer statement from t.p. versos and colophons. Added engraved full pictorial t.p. in v. I, dated 2 Feb. 1786, engraved by J. Heath and J. Landseer after T. Hearne. Vol. I: [6] p., LI numbered lea...

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Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (v.2)

Hearne, Thomas (1744-1817); Byrne, William (1743-1805); Heath, James (1757-1834); Landseer. John (1769-1852); Middiman, Samuel (1750-1831); Medland, Thomas; Sparrow, J T; Lowry, Wilson (1762-1824)

1807

Printer statement from t.p. versos and colophons. Added engraved full pictorial t.p. in v. I, dated 2 Feb. 1786, engraved by J. Heath and J. Landseer after T. Hearne. Vol. I: [6] p., LI numbered lea...

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Eikōn basilikē : the pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitude and sufferings

Charles king of England (1600-1649); Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662)

Anno Dom. 1648 [i.e. 1649]

First 2 words of title in Greek characters. Authorship of the Eikon basilike was originally attributed to Charles I, but according to Madan (pp. 125-33) it was written by John Gauden who probably in...

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Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at VVestminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660... [etc.]

Great Britain

1660

Signatures: A-E². Last word of first line of text: 'Par-'; first word of line below initial: 'shall'; last word of last full line of text of first page: 'and'. Statutes 12 Car.II., c. 4-6. At end...

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