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Total number of records: 93895

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items64672
Archives28842
Art items318
Objects57
Coins1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection91856
English Literature17580
Herbert Read Collection16437
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections4597
Letters Database4488
Leeds Poetry4271
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1722
Incunabula1349
Rudolf Laban Collections963
Medieval Manuscripts642

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1816
letters1312
romanies1155
art916
poets, english810
english literature684
letter663
pre-raphaelites662
sermons, english589
english drama568

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2580
France354
England352
London, United Kingdom305
Sheffield (England)304
Genoa, Italy295
Europe290
Yorkshire (England)202
Spain181
Rome174

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1370
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1079
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)942
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)750
Stoker, Bram708
Sala, George Augustus506
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum442
Great Britain440
Amsterdam (Netherlands)396
Great Britain. Parliament390

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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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