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Total number of records: 55

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection35
English Literature7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english language55
dialect literature, english11
dialect poetry, english3
grammar, comparative and general2
poetry2
caves1
danish language1
dialect literature1
dialect poetry1
english poetry1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Swaledale (England)3
West Riding of Yorkshire (England)1
West Yorkshire (England)1
Yorkshire (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bywater, Abel (1795-1873)13
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)3
Harland, John (1806-1868)3
Bywater, Abel2
Campion, Thomas2
Campion, Thomas (1567-1620)2
Campion, Thomas, 1567-16202
Ellis, Alexander John (1814-1890)2
Harrison, G B (1894-1991)2
Harrison, G. B2

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From 17002
From 180042
From 19008

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Up to 189942
Up to 19998

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A defence of ryme against a pamphlet entituled: Observations in the art of English poesie, 1603

Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619); Campion, Thomas (1567-1620); Harrison, G B (1894-1991)

1925

Introduction signed: G.B. Harrison. "This reprint first published in 1925."

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A defence of ryme against a pamphlet entituled: Observations in the art of English poesie, 1603

Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619); Campion, Thomas (1567-1620); Harrison, G B (1894-1991)

1925

Introduction signed: G.B. Harrison. "This reprint first published in 1925."

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A glossary of words used in Swaledale, Yorkshire

Harland, John (1806-1868)

1873

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[Maps of the English and Lowland Scottish dialect districts]

Ellis, Alexander John (1814-1890); Murray, J A H

1887

Maps to illustrate Alexander J. Ellis's Existing phonology of English dialects, and English dialects: their sounds and homes.

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Report on dialectal work

Ellis, Alexander John (1814-1890)

[1st] (1886) - 2nd (1887)

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A handful of derivations

Green, J Hanson

1906

Forms part VII of Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, February 1906. Caption title.

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A tour to the caves, in the environs of Ingleborough and Settle, in the West Riding of Yorkshire : with some philosophical conjectures on the deluge, remarks on the origin of fountains... Also a large glossary of old and original words made use of in common conversation in the north of England. In a letter to a friend

Hutton, John (1740?-1806)

1781

First published 1780. Dedication, dated Apr. 25th, 1780, signed J.H. (i.e. John Hutton). Advertisement to second edition, inserted between p. ii and [iii], gives details of additions, including gl...

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The vowel-sounds of the East Yorkshire folk-speech

Morris, Marmaduke Charles Frederick (1844-)

1901

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Some Holderness dialect fighting words

Nicholson, John of Hull

[1905]

Extracted from the Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists Club.

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