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Total number of records: 409

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items407
Archives2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature318
Brotherton Collection292
Ripon Cathedral4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry20
classical poetry11
operas8
drama5
authors, latin4
fables3
cantatas, secular3
english drama3
saint cecilia's day3
poetry3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain10
Rome6
Greece6
Granada (Kingdom)4
London (England)2
Stonehenge (England)1
England1
Grenada1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dryden, John (1631-1700)409
Dryden, John164
Virgil29
Tonson, Jacob28
Plutarch28
Congreve, William (1670-1729)27
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)27
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)27
Publius Ovidus Naso27
Congreve, William19

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From 1600197
From 1700197
From 180015

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1699192
Up to 1799198
Up to 189919

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Amphitryon : or, The two Socias : a comedy

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Hawkesworth, John (1715?-1773); Bell, John (1745-1831); Molière (1622-1673)

1792

Based on Molière.

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All for love : or, The world well lost : a tragedy

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Bell, John (1745-1831)

1792

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Albion and Albanius : an opera

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Grabu, Louis (1694)

1735

Detached from Dryden's Dramatick works, v.5. London, 1735.

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All for love : or, The world well lost. A tragedy

Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1740

Title vignette (portrait of Shakespeare).

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Oedipus : a tragedy

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Lee, Nathaniel (1653?-1692); Sophocles; Bell, John (1745-1831)

1791

An adaptation of Sophocles.

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Amphitryon : or, the Two Socias

Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1762

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Albion and Albanius : an opera. Or, representation in musick

Grabu, Louis (1694); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1687

With words by John Dryden.

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Alexander's feast, or, The power of musique. : An ode, in honour of St. Cecilia's day

Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1697

Half-title: Mr. Dryden's Ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day.

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Virgil

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1808

Title-page is engraved.

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Virgil

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1815

Title-page is engraved.

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The works of Virgil (v.1)

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720)

1792

Includes Chetwood's Life of Virgil (v.1, p. [21]-77) originally prefixed to Dryden's Works of Virgil (1697) and here ascribed to William Walsh. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 59, p. 226.

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The works of Virgil (v.2)

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720)

1792

Includes Chetwood's Life of Virgil (v.1, p. [21]-77) originally prefixed to Dryden's Works of Virgil (1697) and here ascribed to William Walsh. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 59, p. 226.

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