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Total number of records: 438

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Archives369
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Herbert Read Collection438
Brotherton Collection393
English Literature59

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english poetry64
art62
art, modern60
anarchism59
modernism (art)59
sculpture, modern59
illumination of books and manuscripts12
painting5
antiques3
art dealers3

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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)126
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)6
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)4
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)4
Bell, Quentin (1910-1996)3
Raysor, Thomas Middleton (1895-)3
Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996)3
Richter, Hans (1888-1976)3
Sotheby'S (Firm)3
Baldelli, Giovanni2

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Illuminated manuscripts

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographs or other reproductions of illuminated manuscripts.

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Illuminated manuscripts

Herbert, J A (1862-1948)

1911

"First published in 1911.".

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Manuscript Exhibition Appeal Committee

11 Dec 1967 - 6 Mar 1968

This file contains 2 signed typescript letters and 1 carbon copy letter relating to the Manuscript Exhibition Appeal Committee. The first signed typescript letter is to Herbert Read from Maureen Tei...

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Coleridge on logic and learning : with selections from the unpublished manuscripts

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Snyder, Alice Dorothea (1887-1943)

1929

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The travels of Sir John Mandeville : the version of the Cotton manuscript in modern spelling

Mandeville, Sir John; Odorico da Pordenone (1265?-1331); Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944); Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari (1252); Ruysbroek, Willem van (1210-1270)

1900

Edited by A.W. Pollard. Includes index and glossary.

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Seventeenth century songs : now first printed from a Bodleian manuscript

Cutts, John P (1927-); Kermode, Frank (1919-2010); Bodleian Library

1956

Limited edition of 150 copies only.

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Rules for the guidance of authors and translators while preparing manuscripts and reading proofs

Preston, Raymond A; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc

c1956

Cover title. "Prepared by Raymond A. Preston, of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--P. [2] of cover.

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The poet's tongue : an anthology

Auden, W H (1907-1973); Garrett, John (1902-); Bridgen, John William

1935

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The Shāh-nāmah of Firdausī : the book of the Persian kings, with 24 illustrations from a fifteenth-century Persian manuscript in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society

Binyon, Laurence (1869-1943); Wilkinson, J V S; Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

1931

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

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Introduction [Writers on Themselves]

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1964

1 manuscript and 1 proof copy of an Introduction by Herbert Read to Writers on Themselves, with manuscript corrections.

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Walter Batiss: Notes on prehistoric art

1952

Manuscript notes on prehistoric art by Walter Battiss.

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