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Total number of records: 44

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Books and printed items30
Archives14

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Brotherton Collection37
English Literature22
Herbert Read Collection6
Leeds Poetry1

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english literature44
letters12
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english drama7
english fiction7
printers4
printers' marks4
printing4
literature2
politics in literature2

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Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)10
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174410
Roscoe, William10
Roscoe, William (1753-1831)10
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)4
Duff, E Gordon (1863-1924)4
Eliot, T S (1888-1965)4
Greg, W W (1875-1959)4
Grosart, Alexander Balloch4
Grosart, Alexander Balloch (1827-1899)4

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T.O. Beachcroft

1952-1954

Letter from T.O. Beachcroft inviting Berry to contribute an essay on Herbert Read for an issue of 'Supplements to British Book News'. File includes further letters regarding the editing and publicatio...

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T.S. Eliot

1958-1988

One Letter from Eliot to Berry rejecting Berry's proposal for a volume of collected poems. Dated 2nd March 1950. Various letters from Eliot (on behalf of Faber and Faber) to Berry thanking him for w...

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F.T. Prince

1985-1994

Letters mainly commenting on each other's work.

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T.J. Wise, proof copies of pamphlets

Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937)

1909-1917

Nine separate titles, as follows, printed for Wise in very limited editions, some annotated by Wise and all of them having proof corrections, often in the hand of Edmund Gosse: (1) "Letters from Alger...

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The lamp and the lute : studies in six modern authors

Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

1929

Contents: Introduction.--Henrik Ibsen.--Thomas Hardy.--Rudyard Kipling.--E. M. Forster.--D. H. Lawrence.--T. S. Eliot.

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Norah Hoult

1934

Response to letter praising "Youth Can't be Served". Also responding to poems sent by Berry and offering writing advice.

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The agreeable variety : in two parts : containing, first, discourses, characters, and poems, relating to the most useful subjects; and extracted from many worthy authors. Consisting, secondly, of letters, poems, &c. by several private persons, on divers occasions. Never before printed

1717

Reissued in 1724 with new t. p.: The Agreeable variety... collected and published by a lady. London. Printed for A. Bettesworth. Dedication of 1724 ed. signed J. M. Cf. Case, 293(b).

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Of books and humankind : essays and poems presented to Bonamy Dobrée

Butt, John (1906-1965)

1964

Contents: Was Clytaemnestra a liar? / A.N. Jeffares -- The incomparable Lady Ranelagh / K.M. Lynch -- Prologues, epilogues and audience in the restoration theatre / J. Sutherland -- In defence of Moll...

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An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets

Carter, John Wayneflete (1905-1975); Pollard, Graham (1903-1976)

1934

Printed in Great Britain. Bound in red cloth. Spine title stamped in gilt, separated from authors' names in gilt by diamond-shaped rule in gilt. Top edge gilt; bottom edge untrimmed. Based on ...

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