The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold |
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Page 263 - Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. Containing an Account of Rare and Curious BOOKS published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing, with Biographical Notices and Prices, by WT Lowndes.
Page 513 - The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided into two Parts : And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. Printed at London, for TP" A small quarto, containing 64 leaves, A to Q in fours.
Page 426 - The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the Former Editions and many valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed ; By John Urry, Student of Christ-Church, Oxon, Deceased : Together •with a Glossary, By a Student of the same College.
Page 545 - English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order. With copious Illustrations and Examples drawn from the Best Writers.
Page 321 - News from France : in a letter, giving a relation of the present state of the difference between the French king and the court of Rome...
Page 328 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Page 484 - mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. And as willing never to bee paid for his work, by Old English wonted pay. It is his Trade to patch all the year long, gratis. Therefore I pray Gentlemen keep your purses.
Page 532 - THE SEPULCHRAL BRASSES IN NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK, tending to illustrate the Ecclesiastical, Military, and Civil Costume of former ages, as well as to preserve Memorials of the most ancient Families in those Counties ; with letter-press Descriptions, an Introductory Essay on Sepulchral Memorials, by several eminent Antiquaries, and a General Index.
Page 316 - Crests, and Mottoes, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, including the late Grants by the College of Arms.
Page 403 - The LIFE of MARY, QUEEN of SCOTS. Drawn from the State Papers With Six subsidiary Memoirs: 1.
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| Title | The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which ... Part 2 of The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing: With Bibliographical and Critical Notices, Collations of the Rarer Articles, and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold, William Thomas Lowndes |
| Author | William Thomas Lowndes |
| Publisher | G. Bell & Sons, 1858 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 3363 pages |
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