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Brotherton Collection7
English Literature4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
Herbert Read Collection1

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literature10
music4
poetry4
art3
painting3
art and morals2
family2
letter writing2
realism in art2
theatre2

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Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
London, United Kingdom1
Rome, Italy1

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Lamotte, Charles2
Assen, A Van (1817)1
Assen, A. Van1
Bridgen, John William1
Bunbury, Henry William1
Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811)1
Dickinson, William1
Dickinson, William (1746-1823)1
Greene, Belle Da Costa1
Grigson, Geoffrey (1905-1985)1

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An essay upon poetry and painting : with relation to the sacred and profane history : with an appendix concerning obscenity in writing and painting

Lamotte, Charles

1730

First edition of the work to contain the Appendix. The Essay first appeared in 1699. Cf. Cambridge Bibl. of Engl. Lit. II, p. 16. With blank first and last leaf.

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Watercolours

c. 1830

Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Studies in art and literature for Belle da Costa Greene

Miner, Dorothy Eugenia

1954

Bibliographical footnotes.

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The arts to-day

Grigson, Geoffrey (1905-1985); Bridgen, John William

1935

"Books to read" at end of most of the essays.

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Angelica's ladies library, or, Parents and guardians present

Kauffmann, Angelica (1741-1807); Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811); Dickinson, William (1746-1823); Assen, A van (1817); Hamilton, John (fl. 1794-1799)

1794

Letterpress t.p. has mezzotint vignette signed: A Van Assen sculp. Dedication (p. [i]-ii) signed: John Hamilton. Plates [1]-[2]: Painted by Angelica Kauffman--Publish'd Feby 20th, 1794... by W. Di...

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Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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Five arts

Halliday, F E (1903-)

1946

Includes indexes.

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