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Brotherton Collection58
English Literature50
Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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country life3
english poetry3
pastoral poetry, latin3
poetry2
authors, english1
dramatists, english1
english literature1
fiction1
popish plot, 16781

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dryden, John, 1631-170064
Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of (1628-1687)10
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham10
Sprat, Thomas9
Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713)9
Clifford, Martin (1677)8
Clifford, Martin7
Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)5
Dryden, John (1631-1700)5
Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724)5

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The enemy's country : words, contexture, and other circumstances of language

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1991

A study based on the poetry of Dryden and Pound. Text of the book based on the Clark lectures, 1986.

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A Dryden library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by John Dryden

Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)

1930

Some of the plates are printed on both sides. Introduction signed: C. H. Wilkinson. Device on recto of last leaf inscribed: The Ashley library. Privately printed. 1930. "Of this book one hundred...

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Anti-Achitophel (1682) : three verse replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden; Absalom Senior, by Elkanah Settle ; Political reflections, by anonymous; Azaria and Hushai, by Samuel Pordage

Jones, Harold Whitmore; Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Pordage, Samuel (1633-1691?)

1961

The facsims. have also separate paging : 38, 11, 38p. "Reproduced from copies in British Museum [and] University of Florida Library."

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Dryden

Saintsbury, George (1845-1933)

1881

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Memoirs of John Dryden (v.1)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1826

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Memoirs of John Dryden (v.2)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1826

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The true history of the Duke of Guise. Extracted out of Thuanus, Mezeray, Mr. Aubeny's Memoirs and the Journal of the reign of Henry the Third of France. Published for the undeceiving such as may perhaps be imposed upon by Mr. Dryden's late tragedy of the Duke of Guise. Together with some remarks upon the same

Thou, Jacques-Auguste de (1553-1617); Mézeray, François Eudes de (1610-1683); L'Estoile, Pierre de (1546-1611); Aubigné, Agrippa d' (1552-1630)

1683

"The journal of the reign of Henry the Third of France" is by Pierre de L'Estoile. A1 and E4 blank. Anon.

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The rehearsal : as it is now acted at the Theatre-Royal

Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of (1628-1687); Clifford, Martin (1677); Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713)

1747

By the Duke of Buckingham, assisted by Martin Clifford, Thomas Sprat, and others - see DNB and Cambridge Hist. of Engl. Lit., vol. 8, p. 28-9.

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Poems on several occasions

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721); Halifax, Charles Montagu earl of (1661-1715)

1727

A collection intended to accompany the 2 vol. 12mo editions of Prior. Cf. Foxon (I, p. 642). "The hind and the panther transversed," by Prior and the Earl of Halifax, has special t.p. and separate p...

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The rehearsal : as it is now acted at the Theatre-Royal

Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of (1628-1687); Clifford, Martin (1677); Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713)

1747

By the Duke of Buckingham, assisted by Martin Clifford, Thomas Sprat, and others - see DNB and Cambridge Hist. of Engl. Lit., vol. 8, p. 28-9.

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The wits paraphras'd : or, Paraphrase upon paraphrase. In a burlesque on the several late translations of Ovids Epistles

Stevenson, Matthew (fl. 1654-1685); M. T

1680

A collection of fifteen burlesque epistles especially aimed at Dryden's translation of Ovid. Another edition was published in the same year; probably this is the earlier, as it contains several errors...

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