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Total number of records: 802

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	572
Archives	224
Objects	5
Art items	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	409
English Literature	129
Leeds Poetry	118
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	63
Herbert Read Collection	48
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive	42
Leeds Russian Archive	18
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History	6
Ripon Cathedral	6
Incunabula	5

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
printing	337
proofs (printing)	115
print media	71
incunabula	67
printed ephemera	60
prints	49
printing, hebrew	44
correspondence	36
printers	36
books	33

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
London, United Kingdom	43
England	23
Great Britain	20
Europe	6
Bristol (England)	5
Gloucestershire (England)	5
Berlin (Germany)	4
France	4
Vienna, Austria	4
Italy	3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	77
Ephemera Society (Great Britain)	41
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)	37
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)	26
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)	23
Crossley-Holland, Kevin	22
Whittington Press	17
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)	15
Haebler, Konrad (1857-1946)	15
Campbell, Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus (1819-1890)	14

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	1
From 1600	3
From 1700	13
From 1800	197
From 1900	481
From 2000	18

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	3
Up to 1799	9
Up to 1899	187
Up to 1999	481
Up to latest	32

Archive Print Item

How to distinguish prints

Hubbard, Hesketh (1892-1957)

1926

Includes bibliographies and glossarial index.

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Exhibition of original prints by Rembrandt, Dürer, Whistler, Meryon, Seymour Haden, D.Y. Cameron, and Muirhead Bone : catalogue of original prints exhibited by Messrs. Obach & Co. in their galleries, 168, New Bond Street, W. [London]

Obach & Co.

[1909]

Catalogue of original prints exhibited by Messrs. Obach & Co. in their galleries, 168, New Bond Street, W. [London], March-April,1909.

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A history of the art of printing : from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century : preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms. books before the invention of printing

Humphreys, Henry Noel (1810-1879)

1867

"The first issue consists of 300 numbered copies... After their dispersion, a small second issue will be made, and the stones are guaranteed then to be destroyed"--Slip tipped in LC copy.

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