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Brief lives : twentieth-century pen portraits from the Dictionary of national biography / selected by Colin Matthew.
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- 1997
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Catalogue of five hundred celebrated authors of Great Britain, now living : the whole arranged in alphabetical order : and including a complete list of their publications, with occasional strictures, and anecdotes of their lives.
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- London : Printed for R. Faulder ... J. Sewel ... and B. Law, 1788.
- 1788
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1788 (Marshall. Catalogue of five hundred celebrated authors of Great Britain) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Pforz (Collective Bio) Catalogue 1788 Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house, in Boston, July 14, 1808, in grateful celebration of the abolition of the African slave-trade, by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark / by Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Pastor of the Congregational Church in Charlestown.
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- Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill, 1808.
- 1808
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Who's buried where in England / Douglas Greenwood.
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- London : Constable, 1990
- 1994
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People of today.
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- London : Debrett's Peerage Ltd.
- 1991-present
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR CT770 .D43 [Latest edition] Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR CT770 .D43 [Latest edition] Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR CT770 .D43 [Latest edition] Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Not available - Please for assistance.Universal dictionary of trade and commerce [electronic resource] : translated from the French of the celebrated Monsieur Savary ... with large additions and improvements, incorporated throughout the whole work ; which more particularly accommodate the same to the trade and navigation of these kingdoms, and the laws, customs, and usages, to which all traders are subject / by Malachy Postlethwayt.
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- London : Printed for John Knapton, 1757.
- 1757
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- London : printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street, 1751-55]
- 1751-1755
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- London : Printed for J. & P. Knapton, 1749.
- 1749
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- Lanham, Md : The Scarecrow Press, 1998.
- 1998
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN2285 .S542 1998 Off-site A general dictionary, historical and critical [electronic resource] : in which a new and accurate translation of that of the Celebrated Mr. Bayle, with the corrections and observations printed in the late edition at Paris, is included; and interspersed with several thousand lives never before published. The whole containing the History of the most illustrious Persons of all Ages and Nations, particularly those of Great Britain and Ireland, distinguished by their Rank, Actions, Learning and other Accomplishments. With reflections on such passages of Mr. Bayle, as seem to favour scepticism and the Manichee System. By the Reverend Mr. John Peter Bernard; the Reverend Mr. Thomas Birch; Mr. John Lockman; and other hands. And the articles relating to Oriental history by George Sale, Gent. Volume I.
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- London : printed by James Bettenham, for G. Strahan, J. Clarke, T. Hatchet in Cornhill; J. Gray in the Poultry; J. Batley in Pater-Noster-Row; T. Worrall, J. Shuckburgh in Fleetstreet; J. Wilcox, A. Millar, C. Corbet in the Strand; T. Osborne in Grays-Inn; J. Brindley in New Bond-Street; and C. Ward and R. Chandler at the Ship between the Temple Gates in Fleetstreet, and sold at their shop in Scarborough, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]
- 1734-1741
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- London, Printed by J. Bettenham, 1734-1741.
- 1734-1741
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AA++ (Bayle, P. General dictionary) v. 10 (1741) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AA++ (Bayle, P. General dictionary) v. 9 (1739) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AA++ (Bayle, P. General dictionary) v. 8 (1739) Offsite A dissertation on the plan, use, and importance, [electronic resource] : of the Universal dictionary of trade and commerce; translated from the French of the late celebrated Mons. Savary, Inspector-General of the manufactures of the Custom-House of Paris: with such considerable additions and improvements, as will appear at large throughout this dissertation; And which more particularly accommodate the same to the Trade and Navigation of the British Empire. Addressed to the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and Traders of Great Britain.
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- London : printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street, 1749.
- 1749
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- London : printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's Head, behind the Chapter-House, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLX. [1760]
- 1760
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- London : printed for John Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, in the Old Bailey, MDCCXLI. [1741]
- 1741
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- London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, ©1998.
- 1998
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DA28 .W616 1998 vol.2 1998 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DA28 .W616 1998 vol.1 1998 Off-site Samuel Johnson : the life of an author / Lawrence Lipking.
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
- 1998
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PR3533 .L56 1998 Off-site The companion to the play-house: or, an historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, [electronic resource] : from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, For the more readily turning to any particular Author, or Performance. In Two Volumes. ... Contains, A Critical and Historical Account of every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, &c. in the English Language. The respective Merits of each Piece; and of the Actors who performed the principal Characters, are particularly examined and pointed out. ... Contains, The Lives and Productions of every Dramatic Writer for the English or Irish Theatres, including not only all those Memoirs that have been formerly writeen, but also a great Number of new Lives and curious Anecdotes never before communicated to the Public. - Also the Lives of our most celebrated Actors, who were likewise Authors of any Theatrical Composition from Shakespear and Johnson, down to the present Times.
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- London : printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, in the Strand; C. Henderson, at the Royal Exchange; and T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1764.
- 1764
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- London : printed for, and sold by, the author, No. 12, Noel-street, Soho: sold also by T. Cadell, and P. Elmsly, in the Strand, MDCCLXXV [1775].
- 1775
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- London : printed for the author, and sold by T. Evans, at No. 54, in Pater-Noster Row; F. Blyth, at the Royal Exchange; Mr. Jackson, at Oxford; Mess. Fletcher and Hodson, at Cambridge; Mr. Wilson, at Dublin; Mr. Etherington, at York; and all other Booksellers, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland., [1772-1773]
- 1772-1773
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- [London : s.n., 1735]
- 1735
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- [London : s.n., 1749]
- 1749
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