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Brotherton Collection83
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)25
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)16
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)9
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)6
Archibald Constable & Co4
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Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801)4

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Archive Print Item

Victorian engravings : 1-22 December 1999... the Maas Gallery

Maas Gallery (London, England)

1999

Exhibition catalog. Price list inserted.

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Archive Print piece

King John. III. iv. 1 - III. iv. 122

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (12)

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Archive File

Letter from Ernest Briggs, Aberford, Leeds; to Edith (Madge) and Margery Jackson.

7 or 9 July 1893

[Writes as "Mr. Little Thing"]. Thanking them for an invitation to tea on the occasions of their respective birthdays. MS, signed. 1f.

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Archive Object Item

index tally

c.1500

An oval stone tally with a hole through the top part. Described as "Late Babylonian, about 6th century B.C., referring to gold. " Described in a note as from Nebuchadnezzar's Library, but now not tho...

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Headingley, Far [Far Headingley], Grays Lane
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Headingley, Far [Far Headingley], Grove Lane

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

11/Aug/1887

Photograph taken near Leeds, Yorkshire

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Archive File

Letter: 8 September 1866

8 September 1866

8 September 1866. Eliot Vale, Blackheath, London, S E To Edith Thompson About songs, and Vergil's /Eneid. 3 Pages.

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Calendar: November (fol. 11v)
Archive Piece

Calendar: November (fol. 11v)

[ca. 142-?]

The scenes in the historiated border are: St. Elizabeth (?) holding a book and a candle; St Clement I holding an anchor; St Catherine of Alexandria holding a spiked wheel and a palm branch; and St. An...

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Archive File

A Pronouncing Glossary of the Dialect of Filey in the East Riding of Yorkshire

1966

M.A. thesis based on data collected in Filey (and a small proportion in the nearby village of Muston) during a four year period from June 1959 to August 1963. Tape recordings of speakers were made in ...

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