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The country of sweet bells

Childe, Wilfred Rowland (1890-1952); Wainwright, Albert; Swan Press (Leeds)

1927

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HUGHES, R D Angling: single and double-handed cast

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HUGHES, R D Angling: single and double-handed cast. London: Farlow, [n.d.]. 7.5cm x 5.2cm. A 'flicker' book.

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BC MS Lt 59, f. 4r: The opening of Joseph Mitchell's poem
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The transport. An ode. By Mr Mitchel, S.T.S., Anno Dom. 1718

Mitchell, Joseph

1718

Religious poem, ecstatic imagined vision of the bliss of heaven, longing for death to take him there. Addressed in a preceding prose dedication (dated "Brunsfield [Bruntsfield, Edinburgh?] August 5,17...

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The reader's guide to Rudyard Kipling's work (v.3)

Harbord, Reginald Engledow; Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987); Mason, Alec; Kipling Society

1961-72

Prose, sections 1-7, numbered consecutively, p.1-3428. The unnumbered eighth volume, "Verse, section no.1", was published in 1969 between vols. 4 and 5, and allocated estimated pagination, "Pages 5001...

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The reader's guide to Rudyard Kipling's work (v.5)

Harbord, Reginald Engledow; Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987); Mason, Alec; Kipling Society

1961-72

Prose, sections 1-7, numbered consecutively, p.1-3428. The unnumbered eighth volume, "Verse, section no.1", was published in 1969 between vols. 4 and 5, and allocated estimated pagination, "Pages 5001...

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The reader's guide to Rudyard Kipling's work (v.6)

Harbord, Reginald Engledow; Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987); Mason, Alec; Kipling Society

1961-72

Prose, sections 1-7, numbered consecutively, p.1-3428. The unnumbered eighth volume, "Verse, section no.1", was published in 1969 between vols. 4 and 5, and allocated estimated pagination, "Pages 5001...

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The reader's guide to Rudyard Kipling's work (v.7)

Harbord, Reginald Engledow; Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987); Mason, Alec; Kipling Society

1961-72

Prose, sections 1-7, numbered consecutively, p.1-3428. The unnumbered eighth volume, "Verse, section no.1", was published in 1969 between vols. 4 and 5, and allocated estimated pagination, "Pages 5001...

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BC MS Lt q 20, f.10r: The opening of Henry Pemberton's poem
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Collection of English verse, begun on March 26th 1732 by William Jermy of Norfolk

Jermy, William

1732-c.1741

Bound in modern cream vellum over boards, with black ink lettering on front cover and spine (the latter with NORFOLK MSS); modern endpapers and flyleaves. F.3r: ornamental ink cartouche with author/co...

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The revolt of Islam : a poem, in twelve cantos

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

1818

First edition. Largely composed of sheets prepared for 'Laon and Cythna' with the t.p. and 28 leaves of the text cancelled and replaced by new ones: t.p., c3, d1, D5-6, E4, G5, I2, K6, K8, L2, N2-4,...

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The reader's guide to Rudyard Kipling's work (v.1)

Harbord, Reginald Engledow; Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987); Mason, Alec; Kipling Society

1961-72

Prose, sections 1-7, numbered consecutively, p.1-3428. The unnumbered eighth volume, "Verse, section no.1", was published in 1969 between vols. 4 and 5, and allocated estimated pagination, "Pages 5001...

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The reader's guide to Rudyard Kipling's work (v.2)

Harbord, Reginald Engledow; Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-1987); Mason, Alec; Kipling Society

1961-72

Prose, sections 1-7, numbered consecutively, p.1-3428. The unnumbered eighth volume, "Verse, section no.1", was published in 1969 between vols. 4 and 5, and allocated estimated pagination, "Pages 5001...

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