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Total number of records: 28

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Brotherton Collection28
English Literature28

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ballad operas1
coins, greek1
hanoverian mercenaries1
numismatics, greek1
numismatics, roman1

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Great Britain3
Greece1
Rome1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-174510
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)4
Walpole, Robert Earl of Orford (1676-1745)3
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-17642
Britannicus2
Walker, Thomas (1698-1744)2
Walker, William (1704-)2
Waller, Edmund, 1606-16872
Walpole, Robert2
Atterbury, Francis1

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The Quaker's opera : as it is perform'd at Lee's and Harper's Great Theatrical Booth in Bartholomew-Fair : with the musick prefix'd to each song

Walker, Thomas (1698-1744); Carey, Henry (1687-1743)

1728

First edition. With the melody for each song.

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The wit of a woman : As it is now acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesty's sworn servants

Walker, T (fl. 1705)

1705

With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf for J. Chantry and R. Bassett.

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The maid's tragedy altered : with some other pieces

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Fletcher, John (1579-1625)

1690

First authorised edition. The maid's tragedy altered is only a fragment, probably intended by Waller to form a new act V for Beaumont and Fletcher's tragedy, with some additions (cf. Greg, 357). "...

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Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1711

The anonymous life of Waller is generally attributed to Francis Atterbury. Final p. blank.

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Four letters publish'd in Old England : or, The constitutional journal (viz. of Oct. the 8th, 22d, 29th, and Nov. the 5th)

Broadbottom, Jeffrey; English, George; Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)

1743

Reprints of nos. 36 and 38, signed Jeffrey Broadbottom (pseud.); 37, signed George English (pseud.); 39, unsigned; and 40. The second letter (no.38) is a theatrical allegory ridiculing William Pulte...

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The fate of villany : A play. As it is acted by the company of comedians, at the theatre in Goodmans-Fields

Walker, Thomas (1698-1744)

1730

Sig. F4v consists of advertisements. Anon., by T. Walker.

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Victorious love : a tragedy, As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drewry-Lane

Walker, William (fl. 1698-1704)

1698

First edition. Cf. A Catalogue of the library of... John Henry Wrenn. Austin, Tex., 1920, v. 5, p. 88.

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Three poems upon the death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713)

1659

First edition. P.14 misnumbered 6. Contents: 'Heroique stanza's, consecrated to the glorious memory of... Oliver late Lord Protector of this Common-wealth', by John Dryden; 'To the happie memory o...

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