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Delvaux, Remi-Henri-Joseph (1748-1823)4
Moreau, Jean Michel (1741-1814)4
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)4
Cox, Sir Richard (1650-1733)2
Goldsmith, Oliver2
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)2
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Hume, David (1711-1776)2
Aaron, Jane1
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C1

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William Powell billhead
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William Powell billhead

William Powell

c.1830

Pictorial 19th century engraved billhead of William Powell depicting sofa, chair, four poster bed with drapes, chest of drawers and drop leaf table. Carved curtain pole with elaborate swags edges card...

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The Taming of the Shrew. I. i. 53 - I. i. 188

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (211)

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El templario y la villana. Crónica del siglo XIV

Cortada, Juan (1805-1868)

1840

"Notas" (p. [211]-219) chiefly in Catalan.

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Uchenīe Vl. Solovʹeva ob ėvol︠i︡u︠t︡sīi

Losskiĭ, N O (1870-1965)

1931

Also numbered p. 204-211.

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Sender: Okri, Ben

Recipient: Robertson, Robin at Penguin Books

Letters: 1

Date(s): 26 Jun 1984

Location: BC MS 20 C Firebird Author File 51 Ben Okri

Note: Encloses story "Laughter Beneath the Bridge" (attached). Four copies of the story included in the file - two with biographical note. Biographical note included in file also. ("Laughter Beneath the Bridge" was published in Firebird 4 Page 211).


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To the priests and people of England, we discharge our consciences, and give them warning

Cotton, Priscilla; Cole, Mary

1655

Authors named, p.8: Priscilla Cotton, Mary Cole.

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Poems on affairs of state : from 1620. to this present year 1707

1716

A reissue of the first edition, 1707, with cancel title-page. Signatures: A⁶, B-Z,⁸ Aa-Gg,⁸ Hh² (R incorrectly signed S). Pages 134, 294 incorrectly numbered 124, 264, respectively. Title...

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To the King's most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of the Commissionerrs [sic] of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, met at Edenborough Ianuary 4, 1642. And now lately presented to His Majesty, at Oxford. With His Majesties gratious answer thereunto March 16, 1642

Church of Scotland. General Assembly

1642 [i.e. 1643]

London as place of publication from Wing. Publication date on piece given o.s. Signatures: A-B⁴. To the King's most excellent Maiesty, the humble petition of the Commissionerrs of the Generall...

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Hibernia Anglicana : or, The history of Ireland, from the conquest thereof by the English, to this present time. With an introductory discourse touching the ancient state of that kingdom; and an exact map of the same (v.1)

Cox, Sir Richard (1650-1733)

1689-90

Frontispiece of vol. 1, duplicated in vol. 2. Title of v. 2 (in red and black): Hibernia anglicana: or The second part of the history of Ireland... By the author of the first part ... In the Savoy: ...

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