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So you're engaged

Harding, Gilbert; Muir, Richard

1954

Includes "A subaltern's love song" by John Betjeman (p. 14-15).

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Bottlescrew days : wine drinking in England during the eighteenth century

Simon, André Louis (1877-1970)

1926

Includes chapters on "Wine glasses and wine bottles" and "Drinking songs and toasts".

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Bottlescrew days : wine drinking in England during the eighteenth century

Simon, André Louis (1877-1970)

1926

Includes chapters on "Wine glasses and wine bottles" and "Drinking songs and toasts".

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The life and death of the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks

Arnold, Walter

1871

The society was founded in the year 1735 by John Rich, harlequin and machinist at Covent Garden, and was dissolved in 1867.

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Miscellaneous papers

c.1982

The file includes an essay entitled 'County Administration in Yorkshire during the Revolution 1640-1660'. There is also an article entitled 'Sing a Song of Santa Eating Christmas Pie' from the Report...

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The feminin' monarchi', or, The histori of bee's : shewing their admirable natur' and propertis, their generation and colonis, their government, loyalti, art, industri, enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, &c. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim', and the
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The feminin' monarchi', or, The histori of bee's : shewing their admirable natur' and propertis, their generation and colonis, their government, loyalti, art, industri, enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, &c. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim', and the sweet' profit arising ther'of

Butler, Charles (1647)

1634

Printed according to the system of orthography proposed by the author in his The English grammar (Oxford, 1633). "Melissomelos, or, Bee's madrigall" (the song of the bees at swarming): 4 pages of ta...

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Traditional recipes of Laos : being the manuscript recipe books of the late Phia Sing, from the Royal Palace at Luang Prabang, reproduced in facsimile and furnished with an English translation

Sing, Phia (1898-1967); Phouangphet Vannithone; Klausner, Boon Song; Davidson, Alan (1924-2003); Davidson, Jennifer

1981

English and Lao.

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The curiosities of ale & beer : an entertaining history
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The curiosities of ale & beer : an entertaining history

Bickerdyke, John (1858-1933); Fennell, John Greville; J. M. D

[1886]

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