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Total number of records: 166

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items158
Archives8

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection166
Herbert Read Collection9
Incunabula5
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
English Literature3
Leeds Poetry3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
printing166
incunabula48
printers23
type and type-founding17
dutch literature14
books13
rare books11
bibliography10
english literature10
bookbinding6

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain7
France4
London, United Kingdom3
New York, Usa2
Chalons-Sur-Marne (France)1
England1
Latin America1
London (England)1
St. Albans (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)15
Haebler, Konrad (1857-1946)15
Campbell, Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus (1819-1890)14
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)13
Campbell, Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus9
Kronenberg, M E (1881-1970)9
Kronenberg, M. E8
Nijhoff, Wouter (1866-1947)8
Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)8
Claudin, A (1833-1906)7

Count of Earliest date

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From 180070
From 190095

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189966
Up to 199998
Up to latest1

Archive Sub-collection

Andrew Gurr Papers

1962-2006

Papers relating to Northern House formerly in the possession of its co-founder, Andrew Gurr. Includes drafts relating to the first 5 Northern House publications (1964); press cuttings; samples of item...

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Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke with Shakespeare

Mar 1851

Two copies of an engraving on paper of Mary Cowden Clarke being crowned with a wreath by Shakespeare while she writes, printed by Bobbett and Edmonds of New York after a drawing by her sister Emma Alo...

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Miscellaneous Papers

c.1964-1988

Mixed papers relating to Northern House publishing. Includes statements from Northern Rock Building Society and the Nat West Bank; invoices and payment/remittance advice; correspondence/estimates from...

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Productions of the School of English Press, Printsoc, Northern House

September 1962 - February 1965

Samples of items produced by the School of English Press, Leeds University Union Printsoc and Northern House on presses in the School of English, University of Leeds. These items were collected by And...

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BC MS NCC/9/4/1 Proof engraving of Vincent Novello
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Proof engraving of Vincent Novello

c. 1840

Proof engraving on paper of a portrait of Vincent Novello, engraved by the Irish artist William Humphrys after an original painting by Edward Petre Novello, now in the collection of the National Portr...

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A theory of architecture : the second chapter from A platonic dialog

Hammer, Victor Karl (1882-1967)

[1952]

"Two hundred and fifty numbered copies. The text has been set by Victor Hammer. Jacob Hammer has printed it" -- Colophon.

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'Some account of the Methods of Musick Printing'

1847

Two copies of a printed circular by (Joseph) Alfred Novello titled 'Some account of the Methods of Musick Printing, With Specimens of the various sizes of Moveable Types; And of other Matters', advert...

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Hand-lists of books printed by London printers, 1501-1556 (pt.1)

Duff, E Gordon (1863-1924); Greg, W W (1875-1959); McKerrow, Ronald B (1872-1940); Plomer, Henry R (1856-1928); Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944); Proctor, Robert George Collier (1868-1903); Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

1895-1913

Issued in 4 parts, 1895-1913, each part with temporary t.-p.: Hand-lists of English printers, 1501-1556. "With the exception of [printers of less than three books]... the list for each printer is a ...

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Hand-lists of books printed by London printers, 1501-1556 (pt 2)

Duff, E Gordon (1863-1924); Greg, W W (1875-1959); McKerrow, Ronald B (1872-1940); Plomer, Henry R (1856-1928); Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944); Proctor, Robert George Collier (1868-1903); Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

1895-1913

Issued in 4 parts, 1895-1913, each part with temporary t.-p.: Hand-lists of English printers, 1501-1556. "With the exception of [printers of less than three books]... the list for each printer is a ...

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Hand-lists of books printed by London printers, 1501-1556 (pt 3)

Duff, E Gordon (1863-1924); Greg, W W (1875-1959); McKerrow, Ronald B (1872-1940); Plomer, Henry R (1856-1928); Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944); Proctor, Robert George Collier (1868-1903); Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

1895-1913

Issued in 4 parts, 1895-1913, each part with temporary t.-p.: Hand-lists of English printers, 1501-1556. "With the exception of [printers of less than three books]... the list for each printer is a ...

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Hand-lists of books printed by London printers, 1501-1556 (pt 4)

Duff, E Gordon (1863-1924); Greg, W W (1875-1959); McKerrow, Ronald B (1872-1940); Plomer, Henry R (1856-1928); Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944); Proctor, Robert George Collier (1868-1903); Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

1895-1913

Issued in 4 parts, 1895-1913, each part with temporary t.-p.: Hand-lists of English printers, 1501-1556. "With the exception of [printers of less than three books]... the list for each printer is a ...

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