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1. The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited and translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.
Creator:
Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649
Date:
MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Physical Description:
196, [4] pages : maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
MCMLVII [1957]
Physical Description:
xv, [3], 936, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Poetry and prose of William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes ; complete in one volume.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 1152 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The note-book of William Blake : called the Rossetti manuscript / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
xii, 162, [1] pages, [120] pages of facsimile : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The writings of William Blake / edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

6. The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil : with the first Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips / the introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
38, [14] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey / De motu cordis 1628; De circulatione sanguinis 1649 : the first English text of 1653 now newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

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Creator:
Harvey, William, 1578–1657
Date:
[1928]
Physical Description:
xvi, 202, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Pure poetry : an anthology / edited by George Moore.

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Date:
1924
Physical Description:
[4], vii-ix, [3],128 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Montaigne's essays : John Florio's translation / edited by J. I. M. Stewart

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Creator:
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533–1592
Date:
MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Lucretia Borgia : the chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei : Renaissance period / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes ; engravings by Reynolds Stone.

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Creator:
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Date:
1942
Physical Description:
[4], 7-191, [2], 16-17, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement of Sydney cove / compiled from the original documents in the Public Record office, with extracts from the log-books of H.M.S. Sirius and an introduction and notes, by Owen Rutter ; forward by the Hon. B.S.B. Stevens, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales ; five engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

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Date:
1937
Physical Description:
149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A voyage round the world with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution / by Anders Sparrman ; introduction & notes by Owen Rutter ; wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill.

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Creator:
Sparrman, Anders, 1748–1820
Date:
1944
Physical Description:
218, [2] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, maps, music ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Julius Caesar's Commentaries : a modern rendering / by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

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Creator:
Caesar, Julius
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
311, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

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Creator:
Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Paradise lost : a poem / by John Milton ; the text of the first edition prepared for press by J. Isaacs.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
MCMCCCVII [1937]
Physical Description:
[2], 378, [2] pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The serpent's presence / by Eurof Walters ; with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.

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Creator:
Walters, Eurof
Date:
1954
Physical Description:
105, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Lady from yesterday / by Christopher Whitfield ; printed with wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

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Creator:
Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
70, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell : with annotations thereto, 1896-1907.

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Creator:
Meredith, George, 1828–1909
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
104 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. From the Third programme : a ten-years' anthology : imagination, argument, experience, exposition / edited by John Morris.

No cover image available
Date:
1956
Physical Description:
x, 339, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese pirates / being the narrative of Mr. Richard Glasspoole of the ship Marquis of Ely ; describing his captivity of eleven weeks and three days whilst held for ransom by the villainous ladrones of the China Sea in the year 1809 ; together with extracts from the China records and log of the Marquis of Ely ; and some remarks on Chinese pirates, ancient and modern, by Owen Rutter ; and four engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.

No cover image available
Creator:
Glasspoole, Richard, 1788–1846
Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
57, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The Lord's song : a sermon / by Eric Gill.

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Creator:
Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Roses of Sharon : poems chosen from the flower of ancient Hebrew literature / with an introduction, by W.O.E. Oesterley, D.D. ; 12 wood-engravings by Mary Groom.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[2], 58, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The personal history of David Copperfield.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[4], vii-xxii, 871, [3] pages, [42] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1932
Physical Description:
[6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Minxes admonished, or, Beauty reproved : an album of deplorable caprices / faithfully narrated & modestly embellished by William Russell Flint

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Creator:
Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969
Date:
MCMLV [1955]
Physical Description:
[13],16-123, [5] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 153 letters from W.H. Hudson / edited and with an introduction and explanatory notes by Edward Garnett.

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Creator:
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
[4], 191, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Winter harvest / by Andrew Young.

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Creator:
Young, Andrew, 1885–1971
Date:
1933
Physical Description:
51, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Barnaby Rudge.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion / a new translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ; with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

No cover image available
Date:
1948
Physical Description:
[2], 266, [2] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A croppe of kisses : selected lyrics of Ben Jonson / chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis.

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Creator:
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
48, [4] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Homer : The Iliad / Pope.

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Creator:
Homer. 1931
Date:
MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
[2], 926, [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Butleriana / S.B.

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Creator:
Butler, Samuel, 1835–1902
Date:
1932
Physical Description:
[8], vii-xvi, 172, [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Zastrozzi : a romance / by Percy Bysshe Shelley ; with an introduction by Phyllis Hartnoll and engravings by Cecil Keeling.

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Creator:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:
1955
Physical Description:
131, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Selected essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 / edited by Geoffrey Keynes, F.R.C.S.

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Creator:
Hazlitt, William, 1778–1830
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
xxiv, 807, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Chapman / by Havelock Ellis ; with illustrative passages.

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Creator:
Ellis, Havelock, 1859–1939
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
[4], 146, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The Ninety-first psalm / with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby.

No cover image available
Date:
1944
Physical Description:
[8] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Graziella / by A. de Lamartine ; translated by Ralph Wright ; with 30 illustrations by Jacquier.

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Creator:
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 1790–1869
Date:
MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:
[2], 189, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Paradoxes and problemes / by Iohn Donne ; with two Characters and an Essay of valour ; now for the first time reprinted from the editions of 1633 and 1652, with one additional Probleme.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
viii, 80 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A tale of two cities.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The Pickwick papers.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[4], vii-xxxiv, [2], 798, [2] pages, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Complete poetry and selected prose / edited by John Hayward.

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Creator:
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:
1929
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 793, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

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Creator:
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868–1926
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
50, [2] pages ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Shaw-Ede : T. E. Lawrence's letters to H.S. Ede, 1927-1935 / foreword and running commentary by H.S. Ede.

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Creator:
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:
1942
Physical Description:
[2], 5-62, [10] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The letters of Charles Dickens / edited by Walter Dexter.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
3 volumes ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Collected papers.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Ladies mistakes : Cupid's changeling : A stitch in time : Love's progress / by James Laver ; with nine illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky.

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Creator:
Laver, James, 1899–1975
Date:
1933
Physical Description:
[4], 106, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The mask of Comus : the poem, originally called 'A mask presented at Ludlow castle, 1634, &c.' / edited by E.H. Visiak ; the airs of the five songs reprinted from the composer's autograph manuscript edited by Hubert J. Foss ; with a foreword by the Earl of Ellesmere ; ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xxiv, 44, [2] pages : color illustrations, music ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The Pilgrim fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England, and their life and adventures there / edited, with preface and notes, by Theodore Besterman ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

No cover image available
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
87, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Christmas books.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xv, [3], 482, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Woman in detail : a scientific survey / by Patrick Miller ; with drawings by Mark Severin.

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Creator:
Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:
1947
Physical Description:
63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts