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sermons, english483
english poetry164
hymns, english127
elections81
english language71
concert programs69
theater programs66
dialect literature, english60
temperance60
chapbooks, english52

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Great Britain142
Leeds (England)132
York (England)65
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Rotherham (England)38
Bradford (England)36
Pontefract (England)34
Derbyshire (England)28

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Church of England218
Montgomery, James (1771-1854)199
Great Britain161
Hofland, Mrs (1770-1844)141
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)124
Wesleyan Methodist Church107
Holland, John (1794-1872)100
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)99
Catholic Church75
Best, Thomas (1787-1865)74

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Archive Print Collection

Yorkshire

One of two large Special Collections sections covering many aspects of Yorkshire history, topography, scientific and natural history, and society. The classification scheme of the collection is as fol...

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Archive Print Collection

Archive Collection

Yorkshire (Brotherton Collection)

1416-1834

The series comprises documents relating to land and property in Yorkshire. It includes surveys, rentals, leases, letters and accounts. The majority of the material dates from the mid to late 17th cen...

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The beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (v.16)

Britton, John (1771-1857); Brayley, E W (1773-1854); Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824); Brewer, James Norris (fl. 1799-1829); Evans, John (fl. 1812); Hodgson, John antiquary (1779-1845); Laird, Francis Charles; Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853); Bigland, John (1750-1832); Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)

1801-1816

Each volume has an additional title-page, engraved. "List of books &c." with each county. "In the earlier volumes [1-6] the letterpress seems to have been mainly Brayley's, while the general editi...

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Magna Britannia et Hibernia, antiqua & nova : or, A new survey of Great Britain, wherein, to the topographical account given by Mr. Camden, and the later editors of his Britannia is added a more large history

Cox, Thomas (1734); Hall, Anthony (1679-1723)

1731

Vol. VI contains the counties of Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire. By Thomas Cox and Anthony Hall.

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