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Total number of records: 436

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items434
Archives2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature323
Brotherton Collection309
Herbert Read Collection5
Ripon Cathedral4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry22
classical poetry11
drama8
operas8
poetry5
authors, latin4
cantatas, secular4
satire4
tragedy4
country life3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain10
Greece6
Rome6
Granada (Kingdom)4
London (England)2
England1
Grenada1
Stonehenge (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dryden, John (1631-1700)436
Dryden, John173
Virgil35
Plutarch33
Tonson, Jacob28
Congreve, William (1670-1729)27
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)27
Publius Ovidus Naso27
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)27
Congreve, William19

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From 1600197
From 1700197
From 180017
From 190025

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1699192
Up to 1799198
Up to 189919
Up to 199927

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The double-dealer : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1711

Signatures: A-G⁸, H⁴.

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Montesuma ou Fernand Cortez : tragedie

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Du Bourg l'abbé

1743

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Stories from Chaucer

McSpadden, J Walker; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1907

Includes "Palamon and Arcite... retold from Chaucer by John Dryden", pp.188-240.

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Dryden's Essays

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Hudson, William Henry (1862-1918)

1912

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The poems of John Dryden

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Sargeaunt, John (1857-1922)

1910

The facsimiles are reproductions of title-pages of earlier editions.

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The fables of John Dryden

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Beauclerk, Lady Diana (1734-1808); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)

1797

Four plates engraved by T. Cheesman, three by F. Bartolozzi, and one each by Vandenberg and W. N. Gardiner, all marked in the plate. Head and tail vignettes depicting putti.

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All for love : or, The world well lost. A tragedy written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Stourton Press

1931

Title and text printed in red and black; head pieces (1 col.).

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The works of Virgil

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1841

With added, engraved, title-page.

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Mac Flecknoe, 1682

Dryden, John (1631-1700)

[1924]

"Five hundred and fifty copies have been printed of which five hundred are for sale." With reproduction of original t.-p.: Mac Flecknoe, or A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant poet, T. S. By the a...

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Plutarch's lives : the translation called Dryden's. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A.H. Clough... [etc.] (v.1)

Plutarch; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

1910

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Plutarch's lives : the translation called Dryden's. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A.H. Clough... [etc.] (v.2)

Plutarch; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

1910

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Plutarch's lives : the translation called Dryden's. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A.H. Clough... [etc.] (v.3)

Plutarch; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

1910

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