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Total number of records: 217

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Books and printed items215
Archives2

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Brotherton Collection20
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society16
Ripon Cathedral7
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections5
English Literature3

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atlases, british36
architecture28
travel12
chronology, historical11
industries8
roads7
banks and banking (british)7
patagonians3
welsh literature3
currency exchanges2

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Wales217
England170
Great Britain14
London (England)5
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England, Monmouthshire2
Ireland2
Nottinghamshire1
Scotland1
Norfolk1

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People and organisationsCount
Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824)29
Britton, John29
Brayley, E. W29
Nightingale, Joseph29
Britton, John (1771-1857)29
Brayley, E W (1773-1854)29
Bigland, John (1750-1832)28
Evans, John28
Evans, John (1812-)28
Laird, Francis Charles28

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From 170042
From 1800165

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Up to 179940
Up to 1899168
Archive Collection:
YAS/DD205
GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK, 6TH DUKE OF LEEDS, RELEASE OF FEE FARM RENTS
1818
For properties in Nottinghamshire, South Wales, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Kent, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Hampshire, Suffolk, and Surrey
Archive File:
BC MS ROM 1/3/3/9
Borrow (George Henry) The Welsh and their literature (8) fragments and proof,
c.1830-1861
Autograph (handwritten) manuscript drafts for sections of Borrow’s anonymous review so entitled, published in (1861) concerning his own English version of E[l]lis Wyn[ne], The sleeping bard, 1860.
Archive Print Item:
Large Architecture B-0.12 BOS
Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([p.[i]-Fountains Abbey, Y)

Boswell, Henry; Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas

[1786]
Except for the map of Yorkshire, which is T. Conder's map of 1784, the maps of the counties are by Thomas Kitchin and originally appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760. Their former imprints h...
Archive Print Item:
Large Architecture B-0.12 BOS
Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales : being a grand copper-plate repository... containing a new and ocmplete collection of superb views of ... ruins and ancient buildings ... bridges, cathedrals, churches ([Limerick Exchange-end])

Boswell, Henry; Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas

[1786]
Except for the map of Yorkshire, which is T. Conder's map of 1784, the maps of the counties are by Thomas Kitchin and originally appeared in the London Magazine from 1747-1760. Their former imprints h...
Archive Print Item:
Modern History Y-0/BRI
The beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (v.9)

Britton, John (1771-1857); Brayley, E W (1773-1854); Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824); Brewer, James Norris (fl. 1799-1829); Evans, John (fl. 1812); Hodgson, John antiquary (1779-1845); Laird, Francis Charles; Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853); Bigland, John (1750-1832); Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)

1801-1816
Each volume has an additional title-page, engraved. "List of books &c." with each county. "In the earlier volumes [1-6] the letterpress seems to have been mainly Brayley's, while the general editi...
Archive Print Item:
Celtic K-0/PRI
Hanes Cymru, a chenedl y Cymry, o'r cynoesoedd hyd at farwolaeth Llewelyn ap Gruffydd : ynghyd a rhai cofiaint perthynol i'r amseroedd o'r pryd hynny i waered

Price, Thomas (1787-1848)

1842
Appeared in fourteen parts, 1836-1842.
Archive Print Item:
Celtic L-0.03/IOL
Iolo manuscripts : a selection of ancient Welsh manuscripts, in prose and verse, from the collection made by the late Edward Williams, Iolo Morganwg, for the purpose of forming a continuation of the Myfyrian archaiology, and subsequently proposed as materials for a new history of Wales

Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826); Williams, Taliesin Taliesin ab Iolo (1787-1847); Price, Thomas (1787-1848); Jones, Owen (1741-1814); Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts

1848
Interrupted at p. 494 by the editor's illness and death, completed by the Rev. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc). Published for the Welsh MSS. Society. Indexed in: NSTC,
Archive Print Item:
Celtic L-0.22/STE
The literature of the Kymry : being a critical essay on the history of the language and literature of Wales, during the twelfth and two succeeding centuries; containing numerous specimens of ancient Welsh poetry in the original and accompanied with English translations; to which was awarded the prize given by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the late Abergavenny Eisteddvod [sic]

Stephens, Thomas (1821-1875)

1849
Archive Print Item:
Bedford Collection A020 [vol II]
Robson's commercial directory of London and the Western Counties, viz. Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloster, Hereford, Somerset, Monmouth and South Wales, an alphabetical list of the names, residences, and professions of the commercial establishments in the above counties: a classification of trades to all market towns therein, with every information connected with the arrival and departure of mails and other coaches, posting houses, commerical inns, &c &c Accompanied by an historical and statistical display of the area in statute acres, the annual value therof, as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815; the annual income of the beneficed clergy, as returned to parliament in 1834; with a beautifully engraved map of each of the counties on which is delineated the new divisions or parochial unions, formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 3 & 4 William IV 1834. In two volumes - Vol. I containing London Directory (vol 2)

Robson, William A (1895-1980); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jones, Louis

1840
Vol I contains London street key, London commercial directory, itineraries. Vol II Gloucestershire to Worcestershire, North Wales and South Wales [Bedford copy lacking many folding maps].
Archive Print Item:
Bedford Collection A020
Robson's commercial directory of London and the Western Counties, viz. Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloster, Hereford, Somerset, Monmouth and South Wales, an alphabetical list of the names, residences, and professions of the commercial establishments in the above counties: a classification of trades to all market towns therein, with every information connected with the arrival and departure of mails and other coaches, posting houses, commerical inns, &c &c Accompanied by an historical and statistical display of the area in statute acres, the annual value therof, as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815; the annual income of the beneficed clergy, as returned to parliament in 1834; with a beautifully engraved map of each of the counties on which is delineated the new divisions or parochial unions, formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 3 & 4 William IV 1834. In two volumes - Vol. I containing London Directory (vol 1)

Robson, William A (1895-1980); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jones, Louis

1840
Vol I contains London street key, London commercial directory, itineraries. Vol II Gloucestershire to Worcestershire, North Wales and South Wales [Bedford copy lacking many folding maps].
Archive Print Item:
Bedford Collection A038
Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory for 1828-9 : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders, in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and principal villages in the following counties in England, viz.: Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Worcestershire, Yorkshire. And the whole of North Wales. With Historical and Topographical Delineations, Tables of the Distances of the Towns in every County, one from the other and each from London;. the whole embellished with a large map of England and sixteen elegant county maps

Pigot, James (1843); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Chambers, William (1809-1882)

[1828]
Manchester directory has 2 page additions 363*-364* inserted. No maps [in Bedford copy]
Archive Print Item:
Bedford Collection A039
Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and prinicipal villages in the following counties, viz., Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and the whole of South Wales. With historical and topographical delineations, tables of the distances of the towns in every county, one from the other and each from London; the whole embellished with 18 elegant county maps

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Chambers, William (1809-1882); J. Pigot & Co

1830
Includes index. No maps [in Bedford Collection A039 copy]. Bedford Collection C420 comprises only Monmouthshire, pages 513-526. Second general survey 1821-1830.