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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. Together and alone : two short novels / by Christopher Whitfield ; with engravings by John O'Connor.

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Creator:
Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Date:
1945
Physical Description:
[2], 5-109, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
149, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

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

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Date:
1956
Physical Description:
x, 339, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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.

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Creator:
Glasspoole, Richard, 1788–1846
Date:
MCMXXXV [1935]
Physical Description:
57, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a prose translation / with an introductory essay by Gwyn Jones ; with six engravings in colour by Dorothea Braby.

No cover image available
Date:
1952
Physical Description:
[4], 95 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Letters from Conrad, 1895 to 1924 / edited with introduction and notes by Edward Garnett ; with two portraits.

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Creator:
Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924
Date:
1928
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 334, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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

18. 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

19. Storm at sea / by Jack Lindsay & wood-engravings by John Farleigh.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lindsay, Jack, 1900–1990
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
75, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:
1955
Physical Description:
131, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A journey from this world to the next / by Henry Fielding ; with six etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:
MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:
175, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The Holy Bible : reprinted according to the Authorized version 1611.

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Date:
1924-27
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Astrophel & Stella / by Sir Philip Sidney ; edited by Mona Wilson.

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Creator:
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554–1586
Date:
MCMXXXI [1931]
Physical Description:
[2], v-xxxviii, [2], 193, [3] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The white llama : being La venganza del condor of V.G. Calderon / now translated into English for the first time by Richard Phibbs ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

No cover image available
Creator:
García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
123 pages, [1] : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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

31. Id quod visum placet : a practical test of the beautiful. / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.

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Creator:
Gill, Eric, 1882–1940
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Irene Iddesleigh : a novel / by Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick Ros.

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Creator:
Ros, Amanda McKittrick, 1860–1939
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The hansom cab and the pigeons : being random reflections upon the silver jubilee of King George V / by L.A.G. Strong.

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Creator:
Strong, L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896–1958
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
42, [4] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Songs and poems of John Dryden / chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones ; drawings by Lavinia Blythe.

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Creator:
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:
1957
Physical Description:
[2], 64 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Our mutual friend.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
xviii, [2], 927, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The lottery ticket / by V.G. Calderon ; done into English by Richard Phibbs ; with engravings by Dorothea Braby.

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Creator:
García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:
[1945]
Physical Description:
[4], 7-11, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Date:
1944
Physical Description:
[8] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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

39. 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

40. The Amazons : a novel / by Ivor Bannet ; engravings by Clifford Webb.

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Creator:
Bannet, Ivor
Date:
1948
Physical Description:
252, [2] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. W. H. Hudson's letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham : with a few to Cunninghame Graham's mother, Mrs. Bontine / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Curle ; drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:
1941
Physical Description:
128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Poems in English with illustrations by William Blake : miscellaneous poems, Paradise regain'd & Samson Agonistes.

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Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
1926
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A crime against Cania / by Arthur Calder-Marshall.

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Creator:
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 1908–
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
[2], 65, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Dryden : the dramatic works : prefatory notes, introduction, chronology of dramatick poesie, the wild gallant, the rival ladies, the Indian Queen, the Indian Emperour, notes : in six volumes / edited by Montague Summers, for the Nonesuch Press.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:
MCMXXXI-MCMXXXII [1931-1932]
Physical Description:
6 volumes ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The country of the blind : 1939 / by H.G. Wells ; with engravings by Clifford Webb.

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Creator:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866–1946
Date:
1939
Physical Description:
67, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The constant mistress / by Enid Clay ; wth engravings by Eric Gill.

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Creator:
Clay, Enid
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
[6], 9-40, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : Edward Fitzgerald's translation reprinted from the first edition with his preface and notes ; drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

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Creator:
Omar Khayyam
Date:
1958
Physical Description:
35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The journal of James Morrison : boatswain's mate of the Bounty, describing the mutiny & subsequent misfortunes of the mutineers : together with an account of the island of Tahiti / with an introduction by Owen Rutter and five engravings by Robert Gibbings.

No cover image available
Creator:
Morrison, James, 1761–1807
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
242, [4] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. 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

50. 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