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1. The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings Richard Shirley Smith.

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Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
[2001]
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

2. 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

3. Owain Miles and other inedited fragments of ancient English poetry.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXVII [1837]
Physical Description:
[151] p. in various pagings : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A dissertation on the pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry, by the trading companies of that city : chiefly with reference to the vehicle, characters, and dresses of the actors : compiled, in a great degree, from sources hitherto unexplored : to which are added, the Pageant of the Shearmen & Taylors' company, and other municipal entertainers of a public nature / by Thomas Sharp.

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Creator:
Sharp, Thomas, 1770–1841
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
[6], 226, [4] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill., music ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

6. Views of Robin Hood's house.

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Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The trial of St. Thomas More / by E.E. Reynolds.

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Creator:
Reynolds, Ernest Edwin, 1894–
Date:
1964
Physical Description:
xiv, 169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

8. Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testatment story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum; including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festivals of Fools and asses--The English boy bishop--The descent into hell--The lord mayor's show--The guildhall giants--Christmas carols, &c. / by William Hone ; with engravings on copper and wood.

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Creator:
Hone, William, 1780–1842
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[2], 298, 2 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

9. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1633
Physical Description:
[16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer / Duncan Robinson.

William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer / Duncan Robinson.
Creator:
Robinson, Duncan
Date:
1982
Physical Description:
116 p. : ill., ports. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

11. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Fabliaux or tales / abridged from French manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries by M. Le Grand ; selected and translated into English verse, by the late G. L. Way ... ; with a preface, notes, and appendix, by the late G. Ellis ...

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Creator:
Legrand, cit., 1737–1800
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The city of London, in the time of the Saxons (about the year 1000) [cartographic material] : compiled from the most authentic documents.

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Date:
April 25th, 1817
Physical Description:
1 map ; 40 x 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Eyne predigt auff den achten Sutag nach de Pfingstag uber das Evangelion Mattei am VII : sehet euch fur / von den falschen Trapheten Bruder Heinrich Kettenbach in MDXXV.

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Creator:
Kettenbach, Heinrich von, fl. 1522
Date:
1525
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts