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Total number of records: 20

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	8
Herbert Read Collection	7
English Literature	5

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
english poetry	6
poets, english	6
classical literature	4
incunabula	4
rare books	4
english language	2
classical geography	1
geography, ancient	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)	20
Johnson, Samuel	8
Waugh, Arthur	6
Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)	6
Brownlowe	4
Dryden, John (1631-1700)	4
Harley, Edward, Earl of Oxford, 1689-1741	4
Maittaire, Michael	4
Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747)	4
Oldys, William	4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1700	8
From 1800	10
From 1900	2

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1799	8
Up to 1899	10
Up to 1999	2

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Johnson's Lives of the poets (v.6)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)

1896

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Johnson's Lives of the poets (v.2)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)

1896

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Johnson's Lives of the poets (v.3)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)

1896

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Johnson's Lives of the poets (v.4)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)

1896

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Johnson's Lives of the poets (v.5)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)

1896

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Johnson's Lives of the poets (v.1)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Waugh, Arthur (1866-1943)

1896

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Some unpublished letters

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

[1915]

Seven letters to William Strahan, esq., dated Oct. 8, 1772; Nov. 7, 1778; Aug. 16, Sept. 30, Nov. 29, Dec. 7, and Dec. 10, 1784.

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.1)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.2)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.3)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae : in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum (v.4)

Oldys, William (1696-1761); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Maittaire, Michael (1667-1747); Osborne, Thomas (1767); Tyrconnel, John Brownlow Viscount (1754); Brownlowe

1743-1745

Vols. 1-4 compiled by William Oldys, Samuel Johnson and Michael Maittaire for Thomas Osborne, who purchased the printed books from Lord Oxford's library. Vol. 5, an enumeration of Osborne's unsold s...

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London : a poem, and, The vanity of human wishes

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Eliot, T S (1888-1965)

1930

"Of this edition... 450 numbered copies have been issued".