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Total number of records: 1466

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Books and printed items1464
Archives2

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Brotherton Collection1218
English Literature280
Ripon Cathedral8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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manuscripts, english16
paleography, english16
english drama7
operas6
incidental music4
princesses2
part-songs, english2
courts and courtiers2
mistaken identity2
regicides2

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Great Britain6
Rome2
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Vienna (Austria)1
Illyria1
Egypt1
Greece1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)1466
Steevens, George (1736-1800)81
Shakespeare, William78
Shakespeare, William, 1564-161675
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)67
Steevens, George59
Gollancz, Sir Israel (1864-1930)56
Reed, Isaac (1742-1807)52
Gollancz, Israel47
Johnson, Samuel45

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From 1700185
From 1800296

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Annotated copy of an edition of William Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice'.

Forsyth, David (1844-1934)

1877-1880?

A small 1877 Clarendon Press Series edition of 'The Merchant of Venice', cut up and interleaved within a larger bound notebook on which extensive notes about the play have been written in manuscript (...

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The first sketches of the second and third parts of King Henry the Sixth

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Halliwell-Phillipps, J O (1820-1889); Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)

1843

With reproductions of the original title-pages: The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey... London, Printed by Th...

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Falstaff's wedding : a comedy

Kenrick, W (1725?-1779); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1795

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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Garrick, David (1717-1779)

[1766?]

Bound in volume with overall title page: "The English theatre in eight volumes, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage. Vol. VIII".

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Richard the Third : a tragedy

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); Oxberry, William Henry (1804-1871)

1818

At head of title: Oxberry's edition.

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King Lear : A tragedy

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Jennens, Charles (1700-1773)

1770

Error in paging: numbers 191-192 repeated. Edited by Richardson.

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The Greek and Latin prize poems of the University of Cambridge, from 1814 to 1837

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); University of Cambridge

1837

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The merry wives of Windsor : a comedy

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1787

Acting edition.

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Othello : A tragedy

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Oxberry, William Henry (1804-1871)

1819

"W. Oxberry, and Co. printers, 8, White Hart Yard"--Verso of t.p.

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