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Total number of records: 217

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items215
Archives2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection20
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society16
Ripon Cathedral7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
English Literature3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
atlases, british36
architecture28
travel12
chronology, historical11
industries8
banks and banking (british)7
roads7
patagonians3
welsh literature3
commerce2

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Wales217
England170
Great Britain14
London (England)5
England and Wales4
England, Monmouthshire2
Ireland2
Brecon1
Buckinghamshire1
Carmarthen (Wales)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brayley, E W (1773-1854)29
Brayley, E. W29
Britton, John29
Britton, John (1771-1857)29
Nightingale, Joseph29
Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824)29
Bigland, John28
Bigland, John (1750-1832)28
Brewer, James Norris28
Brewer, James Norris (1829-)28

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 160010
From 170042
From 1800165

Count of Latest date

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Up to 16999
Up to 179940
Up to 1899168

Archive Collection

GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK, 6TH DUKE OF LEEDS, RELEASE OF FEE FARM RENTS

1818

For properties in Nottinghamshire, South Wales, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Kent, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Hampshire, Suffolk, and Surrey

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Borrow (George Henry) The Welsh and their literature (8) fragments and proof,

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1830-1861

Autograph (handwritten) manuscript drafts for sections of Borrow’s anonymous review so entitled, published in (1861) concerning his own English version of E[l]lis Wyn[ne], The sleeping bard, 1860.

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Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([p.[i]-Fountains Abbey, Y)

Boswell, Henry; Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas

[1786]

Except for the map of Yorkshire, which is T. Conder's map of 1784, the maps of the counties are by Thomas Kitchin and originally appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760. Their former imprints h...

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Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([Limerick Exchange-end])

Boswell, Henry; Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas

[1786]

Except for the map of Yorkshire, which is T. Conder's map of 1784, the maps of the counties are by Thomas Kitchin and originally appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760. Their former imprints h...

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The beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (v.9)

Britton, John (1771-1857); Brayley, E W (1773-1854); Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824); Brewer, James Norris (fl. 1799-1829); Evans, John (fl. 1812); Hodgson, John antiquary (1779-1845); Laird, Francis Charles; Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853); Bigland, John (1750-1832); Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)

1801-1816

Each volume has an additional title-page, engraved. "List of books &c." with each county. "In the earlier volumes [1-6] the letterpress seems to have been mainly Brayley's, while the general editi...

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Iolo manuscripts : a selection of ancient Welsh manuscripts, in prose and verse, from the collection made by the late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg, for the purpose of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian archaiology, and subsequently proposed as materials for a new history of Wales

Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826); Williams, Taliesin Taliesin ab Iolo (1787-1847); Price, Thomas (1787-1848); Jones, Owen (1741-1814); Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts

1848

Interrupted at p. 494 by the editor's illness and death, completed by the Rev. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc). Published for the Welsh MSS. Society. Indexed in: NSTC,

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