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Reference Library
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Nimrod, 1778–1843
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Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
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Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
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Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841–1915
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Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850–1918
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Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614
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Brinley, Francis, 1800–1889
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Cohen, David, 1955–
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Gale, J. H., Reverend
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Hall, H. Byng (Herbert Byng), 1805–1883
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Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
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Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
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Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
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Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
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Lewis, Michael, 1919–1999
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Lister, Eric
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Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
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Millais, John Guille, 1865–1931
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Smith, William, 1813–1893
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Tallemant Des Réaux, 1619–1690
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19th century
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20th century
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15th century
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21st century
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biographie
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wood engraving
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engraving
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publishers' advertisement
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chromolithograph
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fragments (object portions)
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incunabula
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private press books (publishing)
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woodcut
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aquatint
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dictionarie
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hand coloring
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history
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advertisement
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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authors' presentation inscription
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biography
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book jacket
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Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Hunting -- Great Britain.
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Incunabula in Yale Library.
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Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
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Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
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Classical dictionaries.
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Eccentrics and eccentricities -- England -- Shropshire -- Biography.
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France -- Biography.
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Greece -- Biography.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Bookplate.
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Hunters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Mythologies -- Dictionaries.
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Mytton, John, 1796–1834.
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Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
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Rome -- Biography.
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Shropshire (England) -- Biography.
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Spottiswoodes and Shaw -- Printer.
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Taylor, Walton, and Maberly -- Publisher.
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Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935.
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Alfred, King of England, 849–899 -- Juvenile literature.
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Alfred, 871-899
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Great Britain
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England
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France
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Greece
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Rome
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Shropshire (England)
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United States
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Dublin
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Italy. Ferrara. Rubeis, Laurentius de. 1497
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London
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Waltham Saint Lawrence
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Mytton, John, 1796–1834
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Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
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Alfred, King of England, 849–899
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Carter, George, 1792–1884
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 1982–
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Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
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Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
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Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926–2022
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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900–2002
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George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952
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Hitchcock, Thomas, 1900–1944
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Jones, John Paul, 1747–1792
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Lewis family
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Lewis, Clinton, 1885–
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Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
1
Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1813–1875
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1804–1876
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Lewis, John Hardwicke, 1840–1927
1
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adrianna Bates
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miriam C. Niederman, Yale YSN 1953
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.
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German
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French
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Latin
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Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Rambling recollections of a soldier of fortune
1842
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Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
George Selwyn and his contemporaries
1843-1844
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The Illustrated London News
1937
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Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850–1918
The life of Velazquez
1896
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Smith, William, 1813–1893
Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology
[1844-1849]
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Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
Time I was dead
1934
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Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Leben der Heiligen
[1475]
8
Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours
1855-1866
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Shelley memorials
1859
10
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
De plurimis claris sceletisq[ue] mulieribus
tertio kal[endas]. maias. anno salutis n[ost]re. M.cccclxxxxvij [29 April 1497]
11
Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities
1849
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Lewis, Michael, 1919–1999
The Lewis family, art and travel
[1993?]
13
Cohen, David, 1955–
William & Catherine
©2011
14
Buch der heiligen Altvätter
[September 25, 1482]
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The adventures of Commodore Paul
[1884]
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Nimrod, 1778–1843
Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ...
1851
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Brinley, Francis, 1800–1889
Life of William T. Porter
MDCCCLX [1860]
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Elizabeth, the Queen
©1953
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Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
The life of George Cruikshank
1898
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Hall, H. Byng (Herbert Byng), 1805–1883
Brooklands
1852
21
Tallemant Des Réaux, 1619–1690
Love-tales from Tallemant
1925
22
Gale, J. H., Reverend
Hound and horn, or, The life and recollections of George Carter, the great huntsman
1885
23
Millais, John Guille, 1865–1931
The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy
1899
24
Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
History of King Alfred of England
[1849?]
25
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614
The lives of gallant ladies
1924
26
Wilson, Mona, 1872–
The life of William Blake
MCMXXVII [1927]
27
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ...
1837
28
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841–1915
Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero
[1984]
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Lister, Eric
Twentieth century British naïve and primitive artists
1977