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Brotherton Collection17
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Leeds Poetry1

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english literature30
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Allan, George, 1736-18009
Basire, Isaac9
Basire, Isaac (1704-1768)9
Basire, James, 1730-18029
Bentley, Samuel9
Bentley, Samuel (1785-1868)9
Bowyer, William, 1663-17379
Bowyer, William, 1699-17779
Caldwall, James (1739-1819)9
Cave, Edward, 1691-17549

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Redcliffe Poetry Press

1984-1993

Material relating to the publication of From the Red Fort and Collected Poems including: Letters from Michael Abbot to Berry regarding the arrangements for the publication of From the Red Fort and t...

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The essayes or counsels civill and morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St. Alban

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Cresset Press; Shakespeare Head Press

1928

Printed: Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press in black and red ink in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies.

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Wheaton and Co. Ltd

1984-1986

Correspondence and documents relating to A. Wheaton and Co. Ltd typesetters.

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An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets

Carter, John Wayneflete (1905-1975); Pollard, Graham (1903-1976)

1934

Printed in Great Britain. Bound in red cloth. Spine title stamped in gilt, separated from authors' names in gilt by diamond-shaped rule in gilt. Top edge gilt; bottom edge untrimmed. Based on ...

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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown : serious and comical, in prose and verse... with the life and character of Mr. Brown, and a key to all his writings (v.1)

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1715-1720

Title pages in black and red. General index to all four vols in vol. 1. The above title is prefixed to v. 1 only: each volume has special t.-p.

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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown : serious and comical, in prose and verse... with the life and character of Mr. Brown, and a key to all his writings (v.1, [10] p. of General I)

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1715-1720

Title pages in black and red. General index to all four vols in vol. 1. The above title is prefixed to v. 1 only: each volume has special t.-p.

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BC MS Lt 97, f. 51r: The opening of Joshua Barnes's poem
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Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.

Barnes, Joshua

1708

Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...

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George Eliot, autograph letters to her by celebrities of her time, relating to literary and personal matters

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

c.1875-1919

The correspondents include Anthony Trollope, Harriet B. Stowe, Frederic Harrison, Lord Justice Bowen, Benjamin Jowett, David Kauffman, Sir James Paget, G. J. Holyoake, Douglas Jerrold, Elizabeth Stuar...

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Victor Gollancz/Kevin Crossley-Holland

1960-1985

One letter from Victor Gollancz rejecting a poem submtted by Berry, dated 20th October 1960. One letter from Crossley-Holland to Berry offering suggestions of where to submit 'I Tell of Greenland',...

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R.S. White

1982-1984

Order forms for White's 'Shakespeare and Romance Ending' (Two copies) and 'Innocent Victims: Poetic Injustice in Shakespearean Tragedy'. Letters from White to Berry including a response to Berry's ...

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Alec Guiness

1944-1985

One letter thanking Berry for the loan of Moby Dick, dated 1st December 1944. One letter suggesting Berry sends his work to Patrick Dickinson, dated 3rd October 1947. One letter thanking Berry f...

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Literary Papers: Poetry

1933-1984

Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of his collections: 'The Gospel of Fire', 'The Snake in the Moon', 'The Iron Christ', 'Fall of a Tower', 'Murdock and other Poems', 'The Galloping Centaur', ...

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