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Total number of records: 58

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Books and printed items57
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Brotherton Collection58
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Incunabula3

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mathematics, greek1
geometry1

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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)52
Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)2
Malaspina, Manfredi Marchese DI Filattiera (1720-1787)1
Marshall, William1
Marshall, William (1650-)1
Malaspina, Manfredi1
Higgin, Anthony (1624)1
Jaggard, Isaac (1627)1
Jonson, Ben1
Michael Ernest Sadler1

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Travelling Library
1617
A box resembling a single folio book, containing 43 small volumes. This Jacobean travelling library is one of four of a similar kind, the others being in the British Library, the Huntington Library ...
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[A leaf from the first printed Bible]

Gutenberg, Johann (1397?-1468); Fust, Johannes (1400-1466); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[about 1455]
Imprint from ISTC. Printed in two columns with 42 lines to a full column.
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[Epitome margaritae eloquentiae]

Traversagni, Lorenzo Guglielmo (1425-1503); Caxton, William (1422-1491); Higgin, Anthony (1624)

[after 21 January 1480]
Signatures: [a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ d⁶ e⁸ f⁴]. No printed signatures, catchwords or pagination. With explicit but no colophon. The author also appears in catalogues as Guillermus Saphonensis (the ...
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Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m] foelicissime

Euclid (fl. 300 B.C); Adelard of Bath (1116-1142); Campano da Novara (1296); Ratdolt, Erhard (1447?-1528); Malaspina, Manfredi marchese di Filattiera (1720-1787); Sadler, Sir Michael (1861-1943)

anno Salutis 1482 octauis Calen[darum] Iun[ij]. [25 May 1482]
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸. Title from incipit in red on a2r. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on r7v reads: Opus elementoru[m] euclidis megarensis in geometria[m] arte[m] In id quoq[ue] Campani p...
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The workes of Beniamin Jonson

Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)

1616
Engraved t.p. signed: Guliel' Hole fecit. This t.p. also exists with two other forms of the imprint. Each play then has its own special t.p. There are many small variants between copies. The first...
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A Yorkshire tragedie : Not so new, as lamentable and true. VVritten by VV. Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1619
Not in fact by Shakespeare. Mostly in verse. Signatures: pi1(=D4) A-C⁴ D⁴(-D4). The text is followed by a blank leaf [D3]. The title was printed on leaf [D4] which was transferred to the beg...
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Q. Horatius Flaccus: his Art of poetry. Englished by Ben: Jonson. With other workes of the author, never printed before

Horace; Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Marshall, William (fl. 1617-1650)

1640
A translation of Horace's "Ars poetica". With an additional title page, engraved, signed "W.M. sculpsit" (i.e. William Marshall), with imprint "London. Printed for John Benson. 1640". Variant 1: thi...
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The first part of the true & honorable history, of the life of Sir Iohn Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham : As it hath bene lately acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Notingham Lord High Admirall of England, his seruants

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)

1600
2d ed., published in 1619, one of the falsely dated quartos.
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Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. The second impression

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1632
The 'second folio'. 13 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot 1632. F.1b. 'To the re...
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Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. The third impression. And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio. Viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigall, The history of Thomas Ld. Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan widow, A York-shire tragedy, The tragedy of Locrine

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1664
The 'third folio'. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. F.1b. 'To the reader', signed B.I. [Ben Jonson]. F.2b. Droeshout's engraving with Jonson's verse 'This figure...' below it. F.3a. Title-page. F.4a-b. 'To the gr...
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Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, seven plays, never before printed in folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigal, The history of Thomas Lord Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan widow, A Yorkshire tragedy, The tragedy of Locrine

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1685
The 'fourth folio'. 13 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches. F.1b. Droeshout's engraving with Ben Jonson's verse 'This figure...' below it. F.2a. Title-page. F.3a-b. 'To the most noble and incomparable pair ...'. F.4...
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Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883); Zaehnsdorf, Joseph William (1853-1930); Vail, Theodore Newton (1845-1920); Wells, Gabriel (1861-1946); Condell, Henry (1627); Heminge, John (1556-1630); Droeshout, Martin (1601-); Jaggard, Isaac (1627); Blount, Edward (1588-1632); Smethwicke, John (1641); Aspley, William (1640)

1623
The 'first folio', with very slight imperfections. 12 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches. F.1b. 'To the reader'. [By Ben Jonson.] F.2a. Title-page. F.3a-b. 'To the most noble...'. F.4a. 'To the great variety ...'. F....