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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891
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Ashton, John, 1834–1911
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Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
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Bell, Eva Mary Hamilton, "Mrs. G. H. Bell,", 1878–
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Bolton, Arthur T. (Arthur Thomas), 1864–
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Briscoe, John D'Auby
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
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Cowper, Mary Clavering Cowper, Countess of, 1685–1724
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Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
1
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
1
Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834–1925
1
Gaunt, William, 1900–1980
1
Halsband, Robert, 1914–
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Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646–1720
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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838–1903
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Legg, L. G. Wickham (Leopold George Wickham), b. 1877
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Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
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MacDonald, John, b. 1741?
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Malmesbury, James Harris, Earl of, 1746–1820
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Namier, L. B. (Lewis Bernstein), 1888–1960
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20th century
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19th century
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biographie
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booksellers' labels (provenance)
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bibliographie
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engraving
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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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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714.
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers.
3
Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- History -- 1760-1789.
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Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789.
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Great Britain.
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Adam, James, 1732-1794.
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Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.
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Anecdotes -- Great Britain.
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Architecture -- Great Britain.
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Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Bishops -- Northern Ireland -- Correspondence.
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Blagden, Cyprian -- Ms. notes.
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Blagden, Cyprian -- Ownership.
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Adam, James, 1732–1794
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
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Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621–1707
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Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696–1743
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Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800–1859
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Percy, Thomas, 1729–1811
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Prior, Matthew, 1664–1721
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Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Sheridan, Thomas, 1719–1788
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Wilkes, John, 1725–1797
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Watson, J. Steven (John Steven)
The reign of George III, 1760-1815
1960
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Neville, Sylas
Diary, 1767-1788
1950
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Private correspondence of Chesterfield and Newcastle, 1744-46
1930
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Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Eighteenth century vignettes
1892
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Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne
1882
6
Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805–1875
History of England
1870
7
Malmesbury, James Harris, Earl of, 1746–1820
A series of letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury
MDCCCLXX [1870]
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Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646–1720
Memoirs of Count Gramont
1906
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Bell, Eva Mary Hamilton, "Mrs. G. H. Bell,", 1878–
The Hamwood papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton,
1930
10
Legg, L. G. Wickham (Leopold George Wickham), b. 1877
Matthew Prior: a study of his public career and correspondence,
1921
11
Shakespeare's England;
1917
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Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
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Dictionary of national biography
[1920]
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Bolton, Arthur T. (Arthur Thomas), 1864–
The architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794)
1922
15
Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount, 1739–1802
Portrait of a Whig peer
[1957]
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Namier, L. B. (Lewis Bernstein), 1888–1960
The structure of politics at the accession of George III
1929
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Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834–1925
The life of David Garrick
1868
18
MacDonald, John, b. 1741?
Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779)
[1927]
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Sibbald, Susan Mein, 1783–1866
The memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812)
[1926]
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Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
'Brief lives', chiefly of contemporaries,
1898
21
Windham, William, 1750–1810
The Windham papers;
1913
22
Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751–1831
The historical and the posthumous memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1772-1784;
1884
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Sale, William Merritt, 1899–1981
Samuel Richardson
1950
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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838–1903
A history of England in the eighteenth century
1892
25
Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838–1928
The life and letters of Lord Macaulay
1877
26
Sydney, William Connor
England and the English in the eighteenth century,
[1891]
27
Halsband, Robert, 1914–
Lord Hervey; eighteenth-century courtier
1974 [c1973]
28
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
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Sherrard, Owen Aubrey, 1887–1962
A life of John Wilkes
[1930]
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Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Autobiographical recollections
1860
31
Briscoe, John D'Auby
A mapbook of English literature,
[1936]
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Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891
Good Queen Anne
1886
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The Oxford book of Victorian verse
1922
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Gaunt, William, 1900–1980
English rural life in the eighteenth century
1925
35
Southey's Common-place book
1850
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Percy, Thomas, 1729–1811
The Percy letters
1944-<1988>
37
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Diary;
[1907]
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Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876–1962
England under Queen Anne
1930-34
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The Oxford book of English mystical verse
1916