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Total number of records: 89844

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items63740
Archives25724
Art items317
Objects57
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection88104
Herbert Read Collection16291
English Literature16139
Letters Database4476
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4326
Leeds Poetry3683
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1722
Incunabula1349
Rudolf Laban Collections955
Medieval Manuscripts642

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1724
letters1277
romanies1020
art908
poets, english796
english literature668
pre-raphaelites655
letter651
sermons, english589
letter writing546

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2573
France351
England349
London, United Kingdom305
Sheffield (England)304
Genoa, Italy295
Europe287
Yorkshire (England)201
Spain177
Rome174

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1370
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1061
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)775
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)743
Stoker, Bram708
Sala, George Augustus504
Great Britain439
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum438
Amsterdam (Netherlands)393
Great Britain. Parliament390

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From 16006428
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From 180026629
From 190045343
From 200028

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Foreign (Brotherton Collection)

1500-1899

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Thēsauros. Keras amaltheias, kai kẽpoi Adōnidos. = Thesavrvs. Cornu copiæ. & Horti Adonidis

Varinus Camers, Bishop of Nocera (1450-1537); Antinori, Carlo (1496-1540); Poliziano, Angelo (1454-1494); Valeriano Bolzani, G P (1477-1558?); Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Adam, Paul (1849-1931); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mense Augusto M. IIII.D [August 1496]

Signatures: *¹⁰ a-z⁸ &⁴ A-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸ H⁶ I⁸ K⁶ L⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on L8r reads: Venetiis in domo Aldi Romani summa cura laboréq[ue] præmagno. Mense Augusto M. ...

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Kingdom come

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1980

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Speak for England : an essay on England, 1900-1975 : based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1976

First published: Secker & Warburg : London, 1976.

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How to enjoy novels

Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)

1984

Bibliography: p151-152. - Includes index.

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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser (v. 5)

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Gilfillan, George (1813-1878)

1859

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The seventh seal (Det sjunde inseglet)

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1993

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Hudibras. In three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended: with large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.1)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766)

1744

Cuts by Hogarth. By Samuel Butler.

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Hudibras. In three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended: with large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.2)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766)

1744

Cuts by Hogarth. By Samuel Butler.

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Hudibras : in three parts, written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.1)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766); Vertue, George (1684-1756)

1744

Vol. 2 imprint reads printed in London by J. Bettenham (for the same booksellers as vol. 1). Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue; the illustrations are engraved by J....

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Hudibras : in three parts, written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts (v.2)

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Grey, Zachary (1688-1766); Vertue, George (1684-1756)

1744

Vol. 2 imprint reads printed in London by J. Bettenham (for the same booksellers as vol. 1). Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue; the illustrations are engraved by J....

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