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Bohn, Henry G (1796-1884)5
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Gibbon, Charles (1843-1890)3
Addison, Joseph, 1672-17191
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Archive Collection

Bernard Barton, correspondence and literary manuscripts with related materials

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

1818-1848

(Envelope 1) 25 letters to Barton from literary figures, 1818-1836; 3 poems, by Lucy Barton, E. Charlesworth, and J. E. Roscoe; silhouette portrait (unknown); printed sheet featuring portraits of lite...

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Catalogue of valuable printed books, the property of S. Eckman Jr, Esq., C.B.E. : comprising Continental books, including the Jenson Bible, 1479 with contemporary decorations, the Nuremberg chronicle, 1493, and Divina commedia, Parma 1795, presented by Kenyon to Wordsworth; English literature, including Donne's Pseudo-martyr, 1610, Drayton's Poly-Olbion, 1622, Exquemelins' Bucaniers of America, 1684-85, Coleridge's Fall of Robespierre, 1794, Leigh Hunt's copy of Hazlitt's Criticisms on art, 1843 and the Haggadah (1939), on vellum; first editions of Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Fennimore Cooper, Goldsmith, Rider Haggard, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Shelley, Thackeray and Trollope, including many presentation or association copies; colour plate books, including Boydell and Edy's Scenery of Norway, 1820, Dodwell's View's in Greece, 1821, Edward's Natural history, 7 vol., bound by Richard Montagu for Thomas Hollis, Fielding's English lakes, 1821, Hakewill's Jamaica, 1825, Janscha and Ziegler's Vues du Rhin, 1798, McKenney and Hall's Indian tribes, 1838-44, Roscoe's Monandrian plants, 1828, Sauvan's Tour of the Seine, 1821, and Smith's Insects of Georgia, 1797; a series of books from the Doves Press bound by the Doves Bindery, and books from the Ashendene, Caradoc, Essex House, Fanfrolico, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, Riccardi and Shakespeare Head Presses; a fine series of extra-illustrated books. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co.... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond St., W.1 : days of sale, Tuesday, 21st November, 1967 ... Wednesday, 22nd November, 1967, Thursday, 23rd November, 1967 ... [etc.]

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1967

Includes bibliographical references.

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The destructive element : a study of modern writers and beliefs

Spender, Stephen (1909-1995)

1938

A reissue in this series of the edition first published in 1935.

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Men of letters and the English public in the eighteenth century, 1660-1744 : Dryden, Addison, Pope

Beljame, A (1843?-1906); Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974); Lorimer, E O (1881-)

[1948]

Bibliography: pages 387-475.

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Buddhist Suttas

Müller, F Max (1823-1900); Davids, T W Rhys (1843-1922)

1881

Series edited by F. Max Müller.

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The casquet of literature : being a selection of prose and poetry from the works of the most admired authors (v.1)

Gibbon, Charles (1843-1890)

1886

Title vignette. Contains primarily literature of the 19th century from England and America. Items relevant to gypsies: vol. 1, p. 22, "Anecdote of Cervantes" [?]; pp. 211-12, poem by R.W. Emerson,...

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The casquet of literature : being a selection of prose and poetry from the works of the most admired authors (v.2)

Gibbon, Charles (1843-1890)

1886

Title vignette. Contains primarily literature of the 19th century from England and America. Items relevant to gypsies: vol. 1, p. 22, "Anecdote of Cervantes" [?]; pp. 211-12, poem by R.W. Emerson,...

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