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Total number of records: 1993

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Books and printed items1167
Archives822
Objects3
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1993
English Literature1106
Herbert Read Collection394
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse179
Leeds Poetry105
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections17
Medieval Manuscripts3
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry1951
letters329
english literature321
english drama320
english fiction287
art202
anarchism201
art, modern201
modernism (art)201
sculpture, modern201

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Great Britain24
Ireland12
Europe11
Northern Ireland11
Sheffield (England)10
Derbyshire (England)4
Barnsley (England)2
Scotland2
Tyne, River (England)2
Cumbria1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)40
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)30
Drinkwater, John (1882-1937)28
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)28
Poetry Book Society27
Bridgen, John William26
Dryden, John (1631-1700)20
Dryden, John16
Holland, John (1794-1872)15
Astbury, Anthony14

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From 1600132
From 1700234
From 1800276
From 19001179
From 200028

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Up to 1799237
Up to 1899262
Up to 19991145
Up to latest92

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A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750

Case, Arthur Ellicott (1894-1946)

1935 (for 1929)

Half-title inserted between pages 344 and 345 not included in the paging.

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Poems and drawings entitled "Facts and Scraps, original and select, wrote for amusement etc. 1838, [by] W.R.B.".

Roberts, W B

1834 - 1908

Bound volume of manuscript[brown ink] short/amusing poems and illustrations including "Characters of men", "Thoughts on a Bachelor's life", "On Writing Poetry", "A Woman Drinking Gin", "A Drunken Tin...

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Being human : the companion anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive

Astley, Neil

2011

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Being human -- The stuff of life -- Life history -- About time -- Fight to the death -- War and survival -- Living in hope -- Body and soul -- More to...

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A manuscript anthology of early 19th century English poetry, including works by Lord Byron, John Keats and Anna Letitia Barbauld

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); Clare, John (1793-1864); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Letitia) (1743-1825)

1825-1830

The anthology includes works by the following romantic poets: Lord Byron (including his My Soul is Dark), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (including his Fears in Solitude), William Wordsworth (including his E...

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Anthologie bilingue de la poésie anglaise

Brugière, Bernard; Bensimon, P

2005

Includes bibliographical references (pages [1975]-1984) and index.

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Poetical miscellanies : consisting of original poems and translations by the best hands

Jeffrey, George; Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)

MDDCXIV [i.e. 1714]

With engraved frontispiece. Case records another edition in this year, with correctly printed date (279b). A pirated edition appeared in 1726, and a second authorized edition in 1727. "Contains an...

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Poems on several occasions

Browne, Thomas (1771-1798); Merritt, John

1800

A list of subscribers on p. xiii-xxv.

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Advice-to-a-painter poems, 1633-1856 : an annotated finding list

Osborne, Mary Tom

1949

Place of publication from Mansell.

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Vision and love

Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938)

1966

"This booklet of nine previously unpublished poems is produced for the 85th birthday of Catherine Abercrombie : Wednesday, April 13th, 1966; being restricted to 25 copies." -- title page verso. Pape...

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Last words : new poetry for the new century

Paterson, Don (1963-); Shapcott, Jo (1953-)

1999

Include index.

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The Penguin book of poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945

Armitage, Simon (1963-); Crawford, Robert (1959-)

1998

Includes indexes.

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Quarante et un poètes de la Grande-Bretagne

Williamson, Patrick

2003

Series title taken from the front-cover.

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