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Taylor, Richard4
Taylor, Richard (1781-1858)4
Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812)4
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Brerewood, Edward (1565?-1613)1
Brerewood, Robert1
Brerewood, Sir Robert (1588-1654)1
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Speculative instruments /by I.A. Richards

Richards, I A (1893-1979)

1955

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Stead and Sheard Lines Map (Yorkshire)
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Stead and Sheard Lines Map (Yorkshire)

Röhrer, Fritz

[1950s]

Ms. map of Yorkshire showing the Stead Line (1906), and Sheard Line (1945), both markers considered to locate the boundary between the dialects of Northern England and the North Midlands. The Stead li...

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Welsh Placenames

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains papers relating to folklore in Welsh placenames. It includes a photocopy of G. Melville Richards' 'Barclodiad y Gawres: the Derivation and Meaning of the Name', which forms Appendix...

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Photographic Negatives

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s-1970s]

The photographic negatives held by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) comprise 620 individual negatives and sets of negatives. The collection consists of a variety of formats, incl...

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Epea ptepoenta, or The diversions of Purley. By John Horne Tooke... In two volumes (v.1)

Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812); Taylor, Richard (1781-1858)

1829

Plates: frontispiece engraving of Mercury.

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Epea ptepoenta, or The diversions of Purley. By John Horne Tooke... In two volumes (v.2)

Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812); Taylor, Richard (1781-1858)

1829

Plates: frontispiece engraving of Mercury.

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Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley (v.1)

Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812); Taylor, Richard (1781-1858)

1829

"Wholesale and retail list of books, published and sold by Mr. Tegg, no. 73, Cheapside, London" inserted before title page.

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Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley (v.2)

Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812); Taylor, Richard (1781-1858)

1829

"Wholesale and retail list of books, published and sold by Mr. Tegg, no. 73, Cheapside, London" inserted before title page.

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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