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Total number of records: 181

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Brotherton Collection181
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Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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english drama181
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Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)18
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)16
Reed, Isaac (1742-1807)14
Reed, Isaac14
Gilchrist, Octavius12
Gilchrist, Octavius (1779-1823)12
Collier, John Payne12
Collier, John Payne (1789-1883)12
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Pierce Egan, The blind lover; or, The maid of Malines

Egan, Pierce (1814-1880)

c. 1850

A historical drama in prose

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Manuscript of the third act of the play 'The Siege of St Quentin' by Theodore Hook, in the hand of William Powell the prompter, and with manuscript annotations by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Tom Sheridan.

Hook, Theodore Edward

1808

Comprises a fair copy of Act 3 of Hook's play, signed 'W. Powell, Prompter, T[heatre]. R[oyal]. D[rury]. L[ane]. Octr 5th 1808'. The first scene is said to be enacted in 'a courtyard in the Castle of ...

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The Spanish tragedy : a play

Kyd, Thomas (1558-1594); Schick, Josef (1859-1944)

1898

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The tragical history of Doctor Faustus : a play

Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Gollancz, Sir Israel (1864-1930)

1897

Title within ornamental border.

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Letters from Francis Osborne to his father, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, with related literary material.

Osborne, Francis

1769-1783

Comprises 17 autograph letters from Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, to his father, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, dated 6 August 1769 - 1 November 1783 (with transcripts), and 4 separate Engli...

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BC MS Lt 100, f. 15r: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

c.1775-1810

Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.

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Love and duty reconcil'd, a play.

c.1730-1740

Comprises an anonymous verse drama, perhaps for an amateur country-house production of around the 1730s or 1740s. Its characters include Sir James Lovesworth, Lord Alcidor, Theanor, Sir Charles, Colon...

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Five new playes, viz: The Seege of Urbin, Selindra, Love and Friendship, tragy-comedies, Pandora, a comedy, The Imperiall Tragedy, by Sir William Killigrew

Killigrew, William (1606-1695)

1669-1695

The volume comprises a projected new edition of Killigrew's plays, and is made up of the printed editions of "Four new plays", 1666, and "The imperial tragedy", 1669, with manuscript additions and alt...

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A catalogue of a portion of the library of Edmund Gosse

Lister, R J

1893

"The impression of this book is limited to sixty-five copies."

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Hawthorn Dyke

24 April 1893

Original manuscript of 'Hawthorn Dyke' in brown cloth folder.

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Two poems: 'The Year of Love' and 'Love and Sleep'

1865 - 1866

The original manuscripts for 'The Year of Love' and 'Love and Sleep', written on verso fragments of the manuscript for 'Chastelard'. Contained in a volume bound in full blue morocco gilt by Riviere. F...

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