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Total number of records: 30

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Record type	Count
Books and printed items	29
Archives	1

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	5
Cookery Collection	1

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
anecdotes	30
biography	5
proverbs	4
french wit and humor	3
aphorisms and apothegms	2
wit and humor	2
gastronomy	1
maxims	1

Count of Place

Place	Count
France	4
Gascony (France)	1
Holy Roman Empire	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Seward, William (1747-1799)	8
Amelot De La Houssaye, Abraham Nicolas (1634-1706)	4
Athenaeus of Naucratis	2
Cartier De Saint Philip	2
Du Perron, Jacques Davy (1556-1618)	2
Rochefort	2
Rochefort Sieur De	2
Baudouin De Guemadeuc	1
Baudouin De Guemadeuc (1744-1817)	1
Bayle, Pierre	1

Count of Earliest date

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From 1500	1
From 1600	4
From 1700	25

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	4
Up to 1799	25

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Anecdotes relative to the island of Jersey, probably compiled by Thomas Howard, 1767

Howard, Thomas

1767

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Elite de bons mots, pensées choisies, histoires singulieres, & autres petites pieces, tant en prose qu'en vers : recueillies des meilleurs auteurs, & particulierement des livres en ana (v.1)

1731

Anon.

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Elite de bons mots, pensées choisies, histoires singulieres, & autres petites pieces, tant en prose qu'en vers : recueillies des meilleurs auteurs, & particulierement des livres en ana (v.2)

1731

Anon.

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Biographiana (v.1)

Seward, William (1747-1799)

1799

Dedication signed "W. Seward".

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Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries (v.1)

Seward, William (1747-1799)

1795-97

Volume 5 has title: Supplement to the Anecdotes of some distinguished persons. Fronts. in v. 1-4 only.

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Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries (v.2)

Seward, William (1747-1799)

1795-97

Volume 5 has title: Supplement to the Anecdotes of some distinguished persons. Fronts. in v. 1-4 only.

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Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries (v.3)

Seward, William (1747-1799)

1795-97

Volume 5 has title: Supplement to the Anecdotes of some distinguished persons. Fronts. in v. 1-4 only.

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Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries (v.4)

Seward, William (1747-1799)

1795-97

Volume 5 has title: Supplement to the Anecdotes of some distinguished persons. Fronts. in v. 1-4 only.

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Anecdotes of some distinguished persons : chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries : adorned with sculptures (v.1-2)

Seward, William (1747-1799)

1795

Anon., by William Seward.

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Memoires historiques, politiques, critiques et litteraires (v.1)

Amelot de La Houssaye, Abraham Nicolas (1634-1706)

1722

"Amelot... n'est certainement l'auteur de tout l'ouvrage." - Nicéron, Memoires, t.35 (1736) p.130.

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Memoires historiques, politiques, critiques et litteraires (v.2)

Amelot de La Houssaye, Abraham Nicolas (1634-1706)

1722

"Amelot... n'est certainement l'auteur de tout l'ouvrage." - Nicéron, Memoires, t.35 (1736) p.130.

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Saillies d'esprit; ou, Choix curieux de traits utiles & agréables pour la conversation, entre-lassés d'histoire singulieres, d'anecdoctes interessantes, de refléxions critiques morales, de jugemens sur plusieurs poëtes modernes, & de l'élite de leurs poësies

Gayot de Pitaval, François (1673-1743)

1727

Two parts, continuous pagination. Title-page is to the first part only.