Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford ...

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T. Constable, printer, 1838 - Library catalogs - 463 pages
 

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Page 159 - WIT AND MIRTH ; or, PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY. Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice or Instrument ; most of the Songs being new set.
Page 154 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Page 149 - LETTERS WRITTEN BY EMINENT PERSONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES : To which are added, HEARNE'S JOURNEYS TO READING, AND TO WHADDON HALL, The Seat of BROWNE WILLIS, ESQ., and LIVES OF EMINENT MEN, by JOHN AUBREY, ESQ.
Page 264 - Words, and Vocabularies of Latin and English Words, with their Translation into Gaelic, to which is prefixed a Compendium of Gaelic Grammar. Compiled and published under the Direction of the Highland Society of Scotland. 2 vols.
Page 270 - The Old and New Testament connected, in the History of the Jews and neighbouring Nations, from the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ.
Page 28 - ORIGINAL LETTERS, written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III., by various Persons of Rank or Consequence.
Page 148 - Bottom's head might have been suggested by a trick mentioned in the History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, chap, xliii : — ' The guests having sat, and well eat and drank, Dr.
Page 215 - Six OLD PLAYS, on which Shakspeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming the Shrew, King John, K.
Page 28 - The Pastime of People ; or the Chronicles of divers Realms, and most especially of the Realm of England.

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