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Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965)7
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The poets and the poetry of the century (v.8)

Miles, Alfred H (1848-1929)

[1891-1897]

Biographies by A.H. Miles, R. Garnett, and others.

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Alberta Vickridge Collection

Vickridge, Alberta

c.1894-1962

Comprises: (1) Boxes 1-3, containing 439 autograph letters written to Alberta Vickridge from many different correspondents between 19 April 1902 and 1 November 1962, all held in 138 envelopes; (2) Box...

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Oscar Wilde, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of his play 'The Duchess of Padua', with some related material

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

1878-1895

Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph letter to Marian Willets [1878]; (2) Manuscript draft and notes for the original contract made by J.M. Stoddart, and Co. with Wilde for publishing Rennell ...

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An anatomy of poetry

Williams-Ellis, Amabel (1894-1984)

[1922]

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Greek poetry for everyman

Lucas, F L (1894-1967)

1951

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Miscellaneous verses and other fragments by John Rawlinson Ford and others

Ford, John Rawlinson (1851-1934)

c.1863

40 miscellaneous, mainly satirical, verses and other fragments by John Rawlinson Ford, R.A. Henderson, Walter Austin and others, written while working as clerks in 1863, in the office of Payne, Eddiso...

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A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750

Case, Arthur Ellicott (1894-1946)

1935 (for 1929)

Half-title inserted between pages 344 and 345 not included in the paging.

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Orion

Horne, R H (1802-1884); Partridge, Eric (1894-1979)

1928

"650 copies on Glastonbury paper 50 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper numbered from 1 to 50."

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The Book of Bodley Head verse : being a selection of poetry published at the Bodley head

Priestley, J B (1894-1984); Squire, Sir John Collings (1884-1958)

[1926]

Memorial preface on John Lane.

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Wheels (1st cycle, 2nd ed., 1917)

Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964); Sitwell, Osbert (1892-1969); Cunard, Nancy (1896-1965); Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)

1916-1921

Vol.5 published: London: Leonard Parsons, 1920. Vol.6 published: London: C.W. Daniel, 1921. 3rd-6th cycles edited by Edith Sitwell. Contributions are by the Sitwells, Nancy Cunard, Aldous Huxley...

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