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Total number of records: 972

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items967
Archives5

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society240
Brotherton Collection166
English Literature36
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections16
Ripon Cathedral11
Cookery Collection8
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society8
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History3
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
atlases, british63
commerce48
architecture43
travel40
poor39
education39
poor laws38
charity laws and legislation38
banks and banking (british)36
furniture26

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England972
Wales170
Great Britain133
London (England)43
Scotland27
Yorkshire (England)19
Leeds (England)16
Birmingham (England)12
Derbyshire (England)12
British Isles8

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)162
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor38
Britton, John (1771-1857)32
Brayley, E W (1773-1854)31
Britton, John31
Brewer, James Norris (1829-)31
Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824)29
Nightingale, Joseph29
Brayley, E. W29
Evans, John (1812-)28

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15003
From 160036
From 1700200
From 1800732

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15993
Up to 169936
Up to 1799177
Up to 1899756
Spencer (John Poyntz), 5th Earl Spencer.[Letter to C. Hutton]

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West (John), Rector of Chettle, Dorset, Letter to The Rev.Reginald Smith.

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"Gypsy Picture & Playbills."

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[Pinḳas ḥeshbonot shel R. Natan ben Mordekhai Adler miha-shanim 628–637]. [פנקס חשבונות של ר׳ נתן בן מרדכי אדלר מהשנים תרכ׳׳ח-תרל׳׳ז]. [Personal account book of British chief rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, January 1868–August 1877].

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Antiquities of Great Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing

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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)

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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])

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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published... [etc.]

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The New Forest

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The New Forest

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The boke of nurture

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Beauties of English landscape

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