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Total number of records: 27

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Books and printed items24
Archives3

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Brotherton Collection27
Herbert Read Collection5
English Literature4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

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private libraries27
rare books11
bibliography5
early printed books5
books4
english drama3
incunabula3
english literature3
book collecting2
women2

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Germany2
France2

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Private Libraries Association5
Devonshire, William Cavendish Duke of (1808-1891)4
Devonshire, Dukes of. Library (Chatsworth)4
Lacaita, Sir James Phillip (1813-1895)4
Lacaita, James Phillip4
Devonshire, Dukes of4
Devonshire, William Cavendish4
Cavendish Family4
Chatsworth (England)4
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-19283

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The private library : what we do know, what we don't know, what we ought to know about our books

Humphreys, Arthur L (1865-1946)

1897

What is a good edition? -- What is a fine copy? -- Book values -- On the care of books -- The art of reading -- Common-place books -- Reference books -- Boudoir libraries -- Bookbinding -- Book hobbie...

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Chantilly : le cabinet des livres imprimés antérieurs au milieu du XVIe siècle

Musée Condé. Bibliothèque

1905

Catalog of a portion of the collections of the Bibliothèque du Musée Condé presented by the Duc d'Aumale to the Institut de France in 1886. Introd. signed, Léopold Delisle.

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Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth (v.1)

Devonshire, William Cavendish Duke of (1808-1891); Lacaita, Sir James Phillip (1813-1895); Devonshire, Dukes of. Library (Chatsworth)

1879

Title vignette: Arms of William, 7th duke of Devonshire. Collected by members of the Cavendish family during several generations, more especially by the 6th duke of Devonshire. Catalogued by Sir Jam...

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Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth (v.2)

Devonshire, William Cavendish Duke of (1808-1891); Lacaita, Sir James Phillip (1813-1895); Devonshire, Dukes of. Library (Chatsworth)

1879

Title vignette: Arms of William, 7th duke of Devonshire. Collected by members of the Cavendish family during several generations, more especially by the 6th duke of Devonshire. Catalogued by Sir Jam...

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Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth (v.3)

Devonshire, William Cavendish Duke of (1808-1891); Lacaita, Sir James Phillip (1813-1895); Devonshire, Dukes of. Library (Chatsworth)

1879

Title vignette: Arms of William, 7th duke of Devonshire. Collected by members of the Cavendish family during several generations, more especially by the 6th duke of Devonshire. Catalogued by Sir Jam...

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Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth (v.4)

Devonshire, William Cavendish Duke of (1808-1891); Lacaita, Sir James Phillip (1813-1895); Devonshire, Dukes of. Library (Chatsworth)

1879

Title vignette: Arms of William, 7th duke of Devonshire. Collected by members of the Cavendish family during several generations, more especially by the 6th duke of Devonshire. Catalogued by Sir Jam...

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