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Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

The herball or Generall historie of plantes. / Gathered by John Gerarde of London, master in chirurgerie. Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, citizen and apothecarye of London.

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Author: Gerard, John,
Editor.: Johnson, Thomas,
Printer.: Islip, Adam,
Printer.: Norton, Joyce,
Engraver.: Payne, John,
Bookseller.: Whitaker, Richard,
Donor.: Holliday, J. R.,

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer

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Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Editor: Ellis, F. S.
Illustrator: Burne-Jones, Edward
Engraver: Hooper, W. H.
Printer: Morris, William
Kelmscott Press
Binder: Doves Bindery

Miscellany (verse and prose)

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Artist: Ghent Master

Luciani Samosatensis Opera;1687

The Life of William Sancroft; 1821

Geist der Zeit;1807

Thoughts on the admission of persons; 1834

The dead yet speaking; 1651

Lives of Edward and John Philips.1815

The year of sorrow. 1804

Morte Arthure. 1847

‘In the Jamaica Gazette of July 3, 1824, is contained the following Advertisement.’

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Publisher: Unknown

The Witch of Endor, 1679

‘Irish N----’ from 'The Percy Anecdotes'

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Author: Percy, Sholto and Reuben [Thomas Byerley and Joseph Clinton Robertson]
Publisher: Boys, Thomas

‘Extract from he 79th Sermon of Dr. Dwight, President of the Yale College, in America, and Author of “Travels through the United States.”’

‘An Extract from Colonel Arthur’s Letter.’

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Peart, Richard

Slave-driver and enslaved mother and child, with caption below: 'The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil./She only sulks -- go lash her to her toil.'

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Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Lines, Samuel (Attrib.)

An enslaved woman seated on a rock beneath a palm tree looking down at her sick child

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Printmaker: Unknown
Draughtsman: Lines, Samuel (Attrib.)

Title-page of the 'The second report of the Female Society for Birmingham...'

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Female Society for Birmingham
Printer: Hudson, Benjamin

‘N---- Slavery. Argument that the colonial slaves are better off than the English peasantry, answered, from The Royal Jamaica Gazette by Thomas Clarkson MA.’

Printed verse: 'And from the pray’r of want and plaint of woe...'

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Printmaker: Unknown
Author: Beattie, James

‘The worn-out N---- Slave’ poem and ‘and Extract from ‘The Fourth Report of the Association for the Relief of some cases of great distress in the Island of Antigua, particularly among the discarded N----oes – for 1816’.

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Irish tales

Ferdowsi's Shahnameh

The herball or Generall historie of plantes. / Gathered by John Gerarde of London, master in chirurgerie. Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, citizen and apothecarye of London.

Maker(s)

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Maker(s)

Miscellany (verse and prose)

Maker(s)

Luciani Samosatensis Opera;1687

The Life of William Sancroft; 1821

Geist der Zeit;1807

Thoughts on the admission of persons; 1834

The dead yet speaking; 1651

Lives of Edward and John Philips.1815

The year of sorrow. 1804

Morte Arthure. 1847

‘In the Jamaica Gazette of July 3, 1824, is contained the following Advertisement.’

Maker(s)

The Witch of Endor, 1679

‘Irish N----’ from 'The Percy Anecdotes'

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‘Extract from he 79th Sermon of Dr. Dwight, President of the Yale College, in America, and Author of “Travels through the United States.”’

‘An Extract from Colonel Arthur’s Letter.’

Maker(s)

Slave-driver and enslaved mother and child, with caption below: 'The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil./She only sulks -- go lash her to her toil.'

Maker(s)

An enslaved woman seated on a rock beneath a palm tree looking down at her sick child

Maker(s)

Title-page of the 'The second report of the Female Society for Birmingham...'

Maker(s)

‘N---- Slavery. Argument that the colonial slaves are better off than the English peasantry, answered, from The Royal Jamaica Gazette by Thomas Clarkson MA.’

Printed verse: 'And from the pray’r of want and plaint of woe...'

Maker(s)

‘The worn-out N---- Slave’ poem and ‘and Extract from ‘The Fourth Report of the Association for the Relief of some cases of great distress in the Island of Antigua, particularly among the discarded N----oes – for 1816’.

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