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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)3
Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-16701
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The Lancashire Hollands

Holland, Bernard Henry (1856-1926)

1917

"Chief sources of information": p. 345-347.

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Sober advice from Horace, to the young gentlemen about town : As deliver'd in his second sermon

Horace; Bentley, Richard (1662-1742); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

[1734]

Latin and English on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. First edition in folio (Griffith 347).

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Poem Drafts and Workings (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1992-1994

Ms and typescript drafts and workings for the following poems: - The Distaff Side (including draft titled The History of Violence) - The Break-Up (working towards The Inheritors, published posthumo...

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The Judas Tree

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1965

This file contains a 34 page heavily annotated typescript draft of a play by Thomas Blackburn concerning the life of Judas Isacariot. The play became a musical drama through Blackburn's collaboration ...

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Wild Wales : its people, language, and scenery

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

1888

Originally published: 1862.

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Madam Fickle, or, The witty false one : a comedy, as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's theatre

D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)

1677

Licensed November 20. 1676. Roger L'Estrange. Several pages misnumbered; no pages numbered 21-24. Epilogue on final unnumbered page. Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway 520. For collation etc., see...

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Letters of wit, politicks and morality

Guevara, Antonio de; Aristaenetus; Bentivoglio, Guido cardinal (1579-1644); Bussy, Roger de Rabutin comte de (1618-1693); Fontenelle M. de (1657-1757); Cheek, Thomas; Savage, John (1673-1747); Boyer, Abel (1667-1729)

1701

Paging irregular: pp. 157-176 omitted and pp. 337-347 misnumbered 327-437. Sig. D6 (fly-title to "Six select epistles out of Aristaenetus") not included in pagination. "Epistle dedicatory" signed: A...

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The patron, or, The statesman's opera, of two acts

Odell, Mr Thomas (1691-1749)

[1729?]

Libretto, with unacc. melody for each song. Publication date from Nicoll, A. A hist. of Eng. drama, 1660-1900, 1952: v. 2, p. 347. "As 'tis acted by the company of comedians at the new theatre in ...

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Two excellent plays : The wits, a comedie: The platonick lovers, a tragi-comedie. Both presented at the Private House in Black-Friers, by His Majesties servants

D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Bedell, Gabriel (1668); Collins, Thomas (1650-1682)

1665

Title within ornamental border; headpieces; initials. Each play has special t.-p. with ornamental border. "To the readers of Sir William Davenant's play" signed: T. Carew.

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Musarum Cantabrigiensium threnodia in obitum incomparabilis herois ac ducis illustrissimi Georgii Ducis Albæmarlæ regiarum copiarum archistrategi regis, & regnorum Magnæ Britanniæ felicissimi restauratoris

University of Cambridge

1670

Poems in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and English by members of Cambridge University on the death of George Monk.

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Miscellaneous works, comical & diverting

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1720

Second title page (p.281): Miscellanies in prose & verse. A second part, by a certain paultry Scribler, commonly called, the author of the first. Several pages misnumbered; for full description see ...

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Whartoniana, or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose

Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Plantin, Arabella; Wharton, Philip Wharton Duke of (1698-1731); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Norris, John (1657-1711); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Wharton family

1727

With a dedication by E. Curll, which appears to belong rather to the second volume. In it Curll states that the work is a translation from the French, by J. Morgan. Vol. 2 has title: Letters to the ...

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