Search Special Collections
Suggestions
Results
Total number of records: 5
Count of Collection group
Top 10: Subject
Top 10: People and organisations
Wits interpreter : the English Parnassus, or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : in which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects, viz.... : as also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities, all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises
Cotgrave, John (fl. 1655)
1671
Signatures: A⁸, C-2L⁸, 2M⁴. Additional engraved title-page. Several pages misnumbered. Contents: 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements -- 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experimen...
The new academy of complements : erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, soldiers, citizens, countrymen, and all persons of what degree soever, of both sexes : stored with variety of courtly and civil complements, eloquent letters of love and friendship: with an exact collection of the newest and choicest songs alamode, both amorous and jovial
Dorset, Charles Sackville Earl of (1638?-1706); D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701)
1713
Wih engraved frontispiece title, not countedin signatures, facing printed title page. Booklist of J. Churchill, [1] p. at end. Compiled by Charles Sackville, then Lord Buckhurst, afterwards earl o...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Neale, Brenda Ann
18 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; female, recorded in her parents' house in Leeds; talks about her engagement celebrations (who attended, clothes worn); earlier celebrations with friends; fiancé meeting info...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Neale, Brenda Ann
11 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; female, recorded in her parents' house in Leeds; describes her first meeting with her future husband; first date; buying drinks; meeting in-laws; presents; going out annivers...
Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...