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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. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

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. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Miscellaneous poems / by Andrew Marvell.

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Creator:
Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678
Date:
MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:
[4], 148, [6] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Cosmetics for my lady & good fare for my lord : collected recipes.

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Date:
1934
Physical Description:
[6], 5-75, [3] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. William Morris : stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays / edited by G.D H. Cole.

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Creator:
Morris, William, 1834–1896
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
xxiv, 671, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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.

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Creator:
García Calderón, Ventura, 1886–1959
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
123 pages, [1] : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. The book of days of Llewelyn Powys : thoughts from his philosophy / selected by John Wallis ; printed, with an introduction by Llewelyn Powys and twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, at the Golden Cockerel Press.

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Creator:
Powys, Llewelyn, 1884–1939
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[4], 7-85, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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

25. 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

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

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Date:
1952
Physical Description:
[4], 95 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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

28. In memoriam / by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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Creator:
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
Date:
MCMXXVII [1933]
Physical Description:
xxii, [2], 145, [3] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America : viz: Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand: a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect / by William Cobbett.

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Creator:
Cobbett, William, 1763–1835
Date:
MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:
[6], 163, [1] pages : color illustration ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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.

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Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[2], 58, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. The Ephesian story / by Xenophon of Ephesus ; translated from the Greek by Paul Turner ; with illustrations by Eric Fraser.

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Creator:
Xenophon, of Ephesus
Date:
1957
Physical Description:
61, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Selected poems of Coleridge.

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Creator:
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
[8], 130 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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

38. The complete works of Sir John Vanbrugh / the plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée : the letters edited by Geoffrey Webb.

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Creator:
Vanbrugh, John, 1664–1726
Date:
MCMXXVII-MCMXXVIII [1927-1928]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

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Creator:
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
[6], 9-58, [2] pages, [1] leaf, [3] leaves of plates ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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

41. 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

42. Ulick and Soracha / by George Moore.

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Creator:
Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:
MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[6], 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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

49. The golden bed of Kydno / translated from the modern Greek of Evadne Lascaris by P.M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford.

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Creator:
Lascaris, Evadne
Date:
1935
Physical Description:
[2], 7-41, [5] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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