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Total number of records: 11

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Collection group	Count
English Literature	10
Brotherton Collection	2
Herbert Read Collection	1

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
english prose literature	11
authors, english	3
readers	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Knox, Vicesimus	6
Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)	6
Burnett, George (1776?-1811)	3
Craik, Sir Henry (1846-1927)	1
Ratcliff, A J J (1894-)	1
Ratcliff, A. J. J	1

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Earliest date	Count
From 1800	10
From 1900	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	10
Up to 1999	1

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English prose : selections, with critical introductions by various writers and general introductions to each period (v.5)

Craik, Sir Henry (1846-1927)

1893-1896

v. 1. Fourteenth to sixteenth century. -- v. 2. Sixteenth century to the Restoration. -- v. 3. Seventeenth century. -- v. 4. Eighteenth century. -- v. 5. Nineteenth century.

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Elegant extracts : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers (v.1)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox; cf. DNB. Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant ex...

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Elegant extracts : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers (v.2)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox; cf. DNB. Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant ex...

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Elegant extracts : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers (v.3)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox; cf. DNB. Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant ex...

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Elegant extracts : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers (v.4)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox; cf. DNB. Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant ex...

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Elegant extracts : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers (v.5)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox; cf. DNB. Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant ex...

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Elegant extracts : being a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers (v.6)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

[1810]

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox; cf. DNB. Issued as three 6 v. sets of Elegant extracts: prose, poetry and epistles. With added engraved and illustrated half title for each book, with title: Elegant ex...

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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century, with sketches biographical and literary, including an account of books as well as of their authors, with occasional criticisms, &c (v.1)

Burnett, George (1776?-1811)

1807

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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century, with sketches biographical and literary, including an account of books as well as of their authors, with occasional criticisms, &c (v.2)

Burnett, George (1776?-1811)

1807

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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century, with sketches biographical and literary, including an account of books as well as of their authors, with occasional criticisms, &c (v.3)

Burnett, George (1776?-1811)

1807

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Prose of our time

Ratcliff, A J J (1894-)

1931

"Selected passages taken from the works of English writers who, for the most part, came into prominence in the nineteen-twenties."