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Ashton, John, 1834–1911
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Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
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Cockburn, Henry Cockburn, Lord, 1779–1854
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Froude, James Anthony, 1818–1894
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Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891
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Andrews, E. A. (Ethan Allen), 1787–1858
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Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
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Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832–1916
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Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628–1687
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
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Clayden, P. W. (Peter William), 1827–1902
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Colby, Frederic Thomas, 1827–1899
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Collins, William, 1721–1759
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Cotton, William, 1794–1863
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Cowper, Mary Clavering Cowper, Countess of, 1685–1724
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Cowper, William, 1731–1800
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booksellers' labels (provenance)
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Bookplate (BAC,REF)
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702–1714.
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784.
3
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979 -- Ms. notes.
3
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
2
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832.
2
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892.
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Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Anecdotes -- Great Britain.
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Art -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
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Art -- Italy -- History.
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Artists -- Italy -- Biography.
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Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860–1937 -- Autograph.
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Bather, F. A. -- Autograph, 1887.
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Blake, Walter -- Bookplate.
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
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Chatterton, Thomas, 1752–1770
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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
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Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794–1854
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Quarles, Francis, 1592–1644
Quarles' emblems;
1886
2
Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Chap-books of the eighteenth century,
1882
3
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
The journal of Sir Walter Scott, 1825-32,
1891
4
Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1825
5
Omar Khayyam
The Rubāīyāt of Omar Khayyām, the astronomer-poet of Persia
[18--?]
6
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832–1916
Tennyson, his art and relation to modern life
1894
7
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628–1687
The rehearsal
1868
8
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Erasmus in praise of folly
[187-?]
9
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
The correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872
1892
10
Novum Testamentum graece
1895
11
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies
1954
12
Doran, Dr. (John), 1807–1878
'Mann' and manners at the court of Florence, 1740-1786
1876
13
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574
Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects
1850-1852
14
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812–1880
Selections from the letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
1892
15
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect
1927
16
Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719–1791
George Selwyn
1899
17
Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron, 1846–1935
Life of William, earl of Shelburne, afterwards first marguess of Lansdowne
1875-76
18
Prior, James, Sir, 1790?-1869
Life of Edmond Malone, editor of Shakspeare
1860
19
Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
The works of Beaumont and Fletcher;
1854
20
Masson, David, 1822–1907
Chatterton
1874
21
Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Eighteenth century vignettes
1892
22
Malmesbury, James Harris, Earl of, 1746–1820
A series of letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury
MDCCCLXX [1870]
23
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794)
1896
24
Cotton, William, 1794–1863
Some account of the ancient borough town of Plymouth St. Maurice, or Plympton Earl,
1859
25
Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne
1882
26
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Selections from the poetical works of A.C. Swinburne
[1884]
27
Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794–1854
Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, bart
1837-1838
28
Radcliffe, Richard, 1727–1793
Letters of Richard Radcliffe and John James of Queen's college, Oxford, 1755-83; with additions, notes, and appendices
1888
29
Knight, William Angus, 1836–1916
Memorials of Coleorton;
1887
30
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Poems of John Donne,
[1896]
31
Knight, Ellis Cornelia, 1757–1837
Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, lady companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales
1861
32
Osborne, Dorothy, 1627–1695
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54;
1888
33
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838–1903
A history of England in the eighteenth century
1892
34
Symington, Andrew James, b. 1825
Some personal reminiscences of Carlyle
1886
35
Johnsoniana, or, Supplement to Boswell
1836
36
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
The works of Ben Johnson
1816
37
Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850
The poetical works of william wordsworth
1892-93
38
Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
'Brief lives', chiefly of contemporaries,
1898
39
Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751–1831
The historical and the posthumous memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1772-1784;
1884
40
Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey), 1860–1928
The life and letters of James Macpherson
1894
41
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613–1667
The rule and exercises of holy dying
1857
42
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832
Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle;
1887
43
Cockburn, Henry Cockburn, Lord, 1779–1854
Life of Francis Jeffrey
1872
44
Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838–1928
The life and letters of Lord Macaulay
1877
45
Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852–1928
Alfred lord Tennyson;
1897
46
Froude, James Anthony, 1818–1894
Thomas Carlyle
1882
47
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson
1860-
48
Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland
1876
49
Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835–1903
Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland)
1890
50
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
... Selections from the poetical works of William Cowper;
1898
51
Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805–1875
History of England
1870
52
Colby, Frederic Thomas, 1827–1899
Pedigrees of five Devonshire families, Colby, Coplestone, Reynolds, Palmer and Johnson,
Printed by W. Pollard,
53
The Life of Mr. James Quin, comedian,
1887
54
Andrews, E. A. (Ethan Allen), 1787–1858
A copious and critical Latin-English lexicon
1859
55
Clayden, P. W. (Peter William), 1827–1902
The early life of Samuel Rogers
1887
56
Waller, Edmund, 1606–1687
The poems of Edmund Waller;
57
Southey's Common-place book
1850
58
Cowper, Mary Clavering Cowper, Countess of, 1685–1724
Diary of Mary Countess Cowper, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, 1714-1720
1864
59
Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834–1925
The life of David Garrick
1868
60
Donne, Benjamin, 1729–1798
A map of the County of Devon, 1765
1965
61
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
The poetical works of Robert Burns
1856
62
Cockburn, Henry Cockburn, Lord, 1779–1854
Memorials of his time
1872
63
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Autobiography, letters and literary remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)
1861
64
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Autobiographical recollections
1860
65
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer
1899-1900
66
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
[1882?]
67
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891
Good Queen Anne
1886
68
Froude, James Anthony, 1818–1894
Thomas Carlyle
1884-85
69
Collins, William, 1721–1759
Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects
1926]
70
Sydney, William Connor
England and the English in the eighteenth century,
[1891]
71
National Art Library (Great Britain)
First proofs of the Universal catalogue of books on art,
1870
72
Herrick, Robert, 1591–1674
The Hesperides & Noble numbers;
[1898]
73
Lang, Andrew, 1844–1912
The life and letters of John Gibson Lockhart,
1897
74
Stanley, Maria Josepha Stanley, Baroness, 1771–1863
The girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley of Alderly)
1897
75
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Boswelliana
1874