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Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
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Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876–1963
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Ashton, John, 1834–1911
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Austin, Gabriel
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Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
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Chapman, R. W. (Robert William), 1881–1960
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Clifford, James Lowry, 1901–1978
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Cockburn, Henry Cockburn, Lord, 1779–1854
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Cole, William, 1714–1782
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Cowper, William, 1731–1800
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Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834–1925
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annotations (provenance)
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biographie
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booksellers' labels (provenance)
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biography
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extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
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personal correspondence
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publishers' advertisement
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784.
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Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979 -- Ms. notes.
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England -- Social life and customs.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702–1714.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751–1816.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745.
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English poetry.
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers.
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 -- Bibliography.
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Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979 -- Inscription to Annie Burr Lewis.
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Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979 -- Ownership.
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821.
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Roberts, Sydney Castle, Sir, 1887–1966 -- Donor.
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Rollins, Carl Purington 1880–1960 -- Ownership.
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Scott, Walter, 1771–1832.
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751–1816
5
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
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Cowper, William, 1731–1800
4
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
3
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721–1771
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
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Crabbe, George, 1754–1832
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909–1966
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Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689–1762
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Russell family
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Sterling, John, 1806–1844
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
The portable Blake,
1946
2
Blake, William, 1757–1827
The poems of William Blake
1921
3
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Poems of William Blake
[1905?]
4
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
The autobiography of Edward Gibbon
[1911]
5
Hazen, Allen T. (Allen Tracy), 1904–1977
The introduction to A catalogue of Horace Walpole's library
1969
6
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Letters
1959-62
7
Fothergill, John, 1712–1780
Chain of friendship
1971
8
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
The deserted village
[1907?]
9
Paulson, Ronald, 1930–2024
Theme and structure in Swift's Tale of a tub
1960
10
Hesketh, Harriet Cowper, Lady, 1733–1807
Letters of Lady Hesketh to the Rev. John Johnson, concerning their kinsman William Cowper the poet,
1901
11
Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850
The poems of Wordsworth
1926
12
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660,
1945
13
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
The journal of Sir Walter Scott, 1825-32,
1891
14
Southey, Robert, 1774–1843
Poems of Robert Southey
1909
15
Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
The works of Beaumont and Fletcher;
1854
16
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Don Juan,
1924
17
Omar Khayyam
The Rubāīyāt of Omar Khayyām, the astronomer-poet of Persia
[18--?]
18
Quarles, Francis, 1592–1644
Quarles' emblems;
1886
19
Price, Martin, 1920–2010
Swift's rhetorical art;
1953
20
Prior, James, Sir, 1790?-1869
Life of Edmond Malone, editor of Shakspeare
1860
21
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Observations, anecdotes, and characters of books and men,
1966
22
Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Chap-books of the eighteenth century,
1882
23
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721–1771
The letters of Tobias Smollett;
1970
24
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Journal to Stella,
1948
25
Hunt, Leigh, 1784–1859
The autobiography of Leigh Hunt
1949
26
Tourneur, Cyril, 1575?-1626
The works of Cyril Tourneur
[1930]
27
Hillhouse, James Theodore, 1890–1956
The Grub-street journal,
1928
28
Halsband, Robert, 1914–
The life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1957, 1956
29
Woodforde, James, 1740–1803
Woodforde;
1935
30
Wardle, Ralph Martin, 1909–
Mary Wollstonecraft,
1951
31
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect
1927
32
Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
33
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574
Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects
1850-1852
34
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
In memoriam
1910
35
Shakespeare's England;
1917
36
Crabbe, George, 1785–1857
The life of George Crabbe,
[1932]
37
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593
Plays
1950
38
Doran, Dr. (John), 1807–1878
'Mann' and manners at the court of Florence, 1740-1786
1876
39
Cole, William, 1714–1782
A journal of my journey to Paris in the year 1765
1931
40
Black, Clementina
The Linleys of Bath,
[1911]
41
Gulick, Sidney L. (Sidney Lewis), 1902–1988
A Chesterfield bibliography to 1800
1935]
42
Dictionary of national biography
[1920]
43
Hilles, Frederick W. (Frederick Whiley), 1900–1975
New light on Dr. Johnson;
1967 [c1959]
44
Collison, C. S
Sketches in the Vale of Chalke
1900?]
45
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697–1780
Letters to and from Madame du Deffand and Julie de Lespinasse,
1938
46
Sheridan, Betsy, 1758–1837
Betsy Sheridan's journal
[1960]
47
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies
1954
48
Cole, William, 1714–1782
The Blecheley diary of the Rev. William Cole ... 1765-67;
1931
49
Greever, Garland, 1883–1967
A Wiltshire parson and his friends
[1926]
50
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Paradise regained, the Minor poems, and Samson Agonistes
c1937
51
Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Eighteenth century vignettes
1892
52
Whythorne, Thomas, 1528–
The autobiography of Thomas Whythorne
1962
53
Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649
The poems of Richard Crashaw;
[1905?]
54
Congreve, William, 1670–1729
Letters & documents
1964
55
Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
The poem of the mind;
1966
56
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
The autobiography and memoirs of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)
1926
57
Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne
1882
58
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606
Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Mitcham
1953
59
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Erasmus in praise of folly
[187-?]
60
Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Tobias Smollett
1949
61
Landa, Louis A., 1901–
Swift and the Church of Ireland
1954
62
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Private correspondence of Chesterfield and Newcastle, 1744-46
1930
63
Tuell, Anne Kimball, 1876–
John Sterling,
1941
64
Bell, Eva Mary Hamilton, "Mrs. G. H. Bell,", 1878–
The Hamwood papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton,
1930
65
Roscoe, William, 1753–1831
William Roscoe of Liverpool
[1953]
66
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881
The correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872
1892
67
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Memoranda Walpoliana,
1937
68
Burr, Allston, 1866–
Sir Walter Scott,
1936
69
Prior, Matthew, 1664–1721
Poems on several occasions
1905
70
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646–1720
Memoirs of Count Gramont
1906
71
Stuart, Louisa, Lady, 1757–1851
Notes by Lady Louisa Stuart on George Selwyn and his contemporaries
1928
72
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812–1880
Selections from the letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
1892
73
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979
Bentley's designs for Walpole's Fugitive pieces,
1936
74
Masson, David, 1822–1907
Chatterton
1874
75
Hesselgrave, Ruth Avaline
Lady Miller and the Batheaston literary circle,
1927
76
Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1825
77
The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse,
1926
78
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832–1916
Tennyson, his art and relation to modern life
1894
79
Reed, Isaac, 1742–1807
Isaac Reed diaries, 1762-1804
1946
80
Watson, J. Steven (John Steven)
The reign of George III, 1760-1815
1960
81
Sterne, Laurence, 1713–1768
A sentimental journey through France and Italy
MCMXXXVI [1936]
82
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876–1963
The Tinker library ;
[1959]
83
Greene, Donald Johnson
The politics of Samuel Johnson
1960
84
Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron, 1846–1935
Life of William, earl of Shelburne, afterwards first marguess of Lansdowne
1875-76
85
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1633–1713
Some short observations for the Lady Mary Stanhope concerning the writing of ordinary letters,
1934
86
Stevenson, Burton Egbert, 1872–1962
The home book of verse, American and English, 1580-1912
1912
87
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Paradise lost
c1935
88
Herbert, George, 1593–1633
The poems of George Herbert
1913
89
The Oxford book of American verse
1927
90
Episcopal Church
The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church
1944
91
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
Defoe,
[1937]
92
Montagu, Elizabeth Robinson, 1720–1800
Mrs. Montagu, "Queen of the blues",
[1923]
93
Jones, M. G. (Mary Gwladys)
Hannah More
1952
94
Ashford, Daisy
Daisy Ashford: her book,
[c1920]
95
Cecil, David, Lord, 1902–
The stricken deer; or, The life of Cowper,
1935
96
Hawkins, John, 1719–1789
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
[1962]
97
Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
1958
98
Rosenberg, John D
The darkening glass;
1961
99
Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719–1791
George Selwyn
1899
100
Jones, William, 1765–1821
The diary of the Revd. William Jones, 1777-1821
[1929]
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