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Total number of records: 168

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Books and printed items154
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English Literature168
Brotherton Collection64
Leeds Poetry9

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english poetry5
poets, english4
poets, irish4
authors, english3
authors, irish2
chapbooks, english2
english drama2
english literature2
letters2
autobiography1

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Dean, Forest of (England : Forest)1
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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)75
Bowyer, William (1699-1777)42
Hawkesworth, John (1715?-1773)42
Swift, Deane (1707-1783)42
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)22
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-174512
Orrery, John Boyle Earl of (1707-1762)5
Cibber, Theophilus4
Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758)4
Coxeter, Thomas4

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Linda M. Deane - 'Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative'

2005

Unpublished typescript of poetry collection. Later published in 2014 by The Independent Press.

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The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland : to the time of Dean Swift (v.2)

Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758); Shiels, Robert d. 1753; Coxeter, Thomas (1689-1747)

1753

On t.-p. of v. 1:... In four volumes. Title varies slightly: v. 2-5, "by Mr. Cibber and other hands." Compiled mainly by Robert Shiels with revisions and additions by Theophilus Cibber. cf. Dict. ...

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The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland : to the time of Dean Swift (v.3)

Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758); Shiels, Robert d. 1753; Coxeter, Thomas (1689-1747)

1753

On t.-p. of v. 1:... In four volumes. Title varies slightly: v. 2-5, "by Mr. Cibber and other hands." Compiled mainly by Robert Shiels with revisions and additions by Theophilus Cibber. cf. Dict. ...

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The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland : to the time of Dean Swift (v.4)

Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758); Shiels, Robert d. 1753; Coxeter, Thomas (1689-1747)

1753

On t.-p. of v. 1:... In four volumes. Title varies slightly: v. 2-5, "by Mr. Cibber and other hands." Compiled mainly by Robert Shiels with revisions and additions by Theophilus Cibber. cf. Dict. ...

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The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland : to the time of Dean Swift (v.5)

Cibber, Theophilus (1703-1758); Shiels, Robert d. 1753; Coxeter, Thomas (1689-1747)

1753

On t.-p. of v. 1:... In four volumes. Title varies slightly: v. 2-5, "by Mr. Cibber and other hands." Compiled mainly by Robert Shiels with revisions and additions by Theophilus Cibber. cf. Dict. ...

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A curry-comb of truth for a certain Dean : or, The Grub-street tribunal

Dunkin, William (1709?-1765)

1736

By William Dunkin.

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The life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin

Sheridan, Thomas (1719-1788)

1785

With a final advertisement leaf.

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Dean Swift's literary correspondence, for twenty-four years, from 1714 to 1738

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1741

At foot of title: "Price 4s. sewed, 5s. bound." Device on t.p. Drop-head title p. [229]: A philosophico-critical history of the deluge. Includes letters from Gay, Pope, Atterbury and Arbuthnot. ...

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The Brobdingnagians : being a key to Gulliver's voyage to Brobdingnag : in a second letter to Dean Swift

Curll, Edmund (1675-1747)

1726

Signed: C. D. M. ["Corolini di Marco", i.e. Edmund Curll]. Signatures: A-D⁴. Includes bibliographical references.

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Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin

Orrery, John Boyle Earl of (1707-1762); Cork, Hamilton Boyle Earl of (1729-1764)

1752

First edition.

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