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Pickering, Michael J7
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Adams, G B (1916-1982)2
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Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)2
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A style manual for authors

Seeber, Edward Derbyshire (1904-)

1965

Bibliography: p. 77-82.

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A New Look at an Old Manuscript and its Author

Neale, Brenda Ann

1975

Research project involving work on a manuscript of miscellaneous folklore items, collected by Wilhelmine Fowler and originally sent to the Folk Lore Society in February 1894 for possible publication i...

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MHRA style book : notes for authors and editors

Maney, Arthur Stanley; Smallwood, R L (1941-); Modern Humanities Research Association

1971

Includes bibliographical references.

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John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century

Davies, Patrick J M

1983

A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...

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Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases : with examples of their colloquial use, and illustrations from various authors : to which are added, the customs of the county (v.1)

Baker, Anne Elizabeth (1786-1861)

1854

"A list of provincial glossaries with their abbreviations, and of other works referred to": v. 1, p. [xvii]-xviii.

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Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases : with examples of their colloquial use, and illustrations from various authors : to which are added, the customs of the county (v.2)

Baker, Anne Elizabeth (1786-1861)

1854

"A list of provincial glossaries with their abbreviations, and of other works referred to": v. 1, p. [xvii]-xviii.

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British calendar customs : Orkney & Shetland

Banks, Mary Macleod; Folklore Society (Great Britain)

1946

"Authorities quoted": pages ix.

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