Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

The Collection was the creation of the financier Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), who took a special interest in the lives and works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his contemporaries, including his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and such friends and fellow writers as Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, Teresa Guiccioli, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, Horace Smith, and Edward John Trelawny.

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Collections in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

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Jane Porter papers
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Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material
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Teresa Guiccioli manuscript material
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William Godwin manuscript material
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: visual materials
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Fables, ancient and modern. Adapted for the use of children. By Edward Baldwin, Esq. ...
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Hubert Thomas Parker scrapbook album
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George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron manuscript material
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Leigh Hunt manuscript material
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Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material
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Plan of the cities of London and Westminster: the Borough of Southwark, and parts adjoining, shewing every house
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material
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Twenty-one manuscript letters to Lord Byron from Venetian women
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Tales from Shakespear: designed for the use of young persons
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Mary Wollstonecraft Manuscript Material
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Gaffer Gray: or, The misfortunes of poverty, a Christmas ditty, very fit to be chanted at Whitsuntide
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Edward John Trelawny manuscript material
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Compositions from Shelley's Prometheus unbound
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Mounseer Nongtongpaw: A new version
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Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material
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The pantheon: or Ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome. Intended to facilitate the understanding of the classical authors, and of poets in general. For the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes. By Edward Baldwin, Esq.
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Timothy Shelley manuscript material
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Thirteen manuscript legal documents relating to the estate and property of Anne Lister and her family
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Prince Dorus, or, Flattery put out of countenance: a poetical version of an ancient tale, illustrated with a series of elegant engravings
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The history of England: for the use of schools and young persons
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The illustrated London novelist
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Middlemarch: a study of provincial life
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History of Greece: from the earliest records of that country, to the time in which it was reduced to a Roman province ...
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Bible stories. Memorable acts of the ancient patriarchs, judges and kings: extracted from their original historians. For the use of children. By William Scolfield. [Vol. II]
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Fables anciennes et modernes, adaptées a l'usage des enfans
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History of Rome: From the building of the city to the ruin of the Republic
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Fanny Silvestrini manuscript material : 8 items
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Six histoires pour la prémiere enfance : adaptées maniere à faciliter l'étude de la langue françoise aux plus jeunes élèves. Par une mere, pour l'usage de sa petite famille.
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The looking-glass : a true history of the early years of an artist
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Visits to the juvenile library : or, Knowledge proved to be the source of happiness.
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Memorials of the life of Amelia Opie: selected and arranged from her letters, diaries, and other manuscripts [extra-illustrated copy]
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A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis
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Rosara's chain: or, The choice of life. A poem. By Alicia Lefanu, niece to the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Dramas for children, or, Gentle reproofs for their faults
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The Pantheon, or, Ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome: For the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes
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Engravings after Amelia Curran's portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Histories of four young ladies: intended to illustrate the force of education, and the danger of mistakes in the commencement of life
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Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, her husband
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Claire Clairmont manuscript material
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Four manuscript letters of petition to Lord Byron from Venetian strangers
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William and Richard Dry manuscript material : 4 items
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A. J. Swayne anonymous lady's friendship album
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Clairmont family papers
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A quarto album of original cutwork valentines and manuscript verses with fine family provenance
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Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material
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The family Robinson Crusoe, or, Journal of a father shipwrecked, with his wife and children, on an uninhabited island
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Original compositions and extracts, in prose and verse: circa 1817-1886
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Broadsides from the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection
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Dicks' English library of standard works
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Anna Letitia Barbauld manuscript material
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A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
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John Gisborne manuscript material
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Sollicitude d'une mère pour les plus précieux intérêts de sa fille. Traduit de l'anglais de Mrs. Taylor of Ongar; par l'abbé Le Febvre.
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Edward Du Bois manuscript material : 3 items
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John Keats manuscript material
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Marianna Segati manuscript material : 3 items
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The First book of poetry : for the use of schools, intended as reading lessons for the younger classes. By W.F. Mylius. With two engravings.
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The adventures of Ulysses
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Margaret Nicholson manuscript material : 3 items
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The parent's offering, or, Tales for children. By Mrs. Caroline Barnard.
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Queen Mab; a philosophical poem. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1821 edition, "New York" [unauthorized])
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The literary miscellany, or, Selections and extracts, classical and scientific, with originals in prose and verse
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An Authentic narrative of the extraordinary career of James Allen, the female husband: who was married for the space of twenty-one years, without her real sex being discovered, even by her wedded associate
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An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness. In two volumes
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The prize: or, The lace-makers of Missenden
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Thomas Turner manuscript material
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The rational dame: or, hints towards supplying prattle for children
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Finden's illustrations of the life and works of Lord Byron: with original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings
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Continuation of the stories of Old Daniel, or, Tales of wonder and delight : containing narratives of foreign countries and manners, and designed as an introduction to the study of voyages, travels, and history in general.
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The adventures of Caleb Williams: y the late W. Godwin, Esq., author of "Deloraine," "Cloudesly," "St. Leon," &c. &c. &c.
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The fisher-boy of Weymouth: to which are added, The pet donkey, and The sisters
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Frankenstein; or, The man and the monster! A peculiar romantic, melo-dramatic pantomimic spectacle, in two acts
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The ruins, or, A survey of the revolutions of empires
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Essay on sepulchres: or, A proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead in all ages on the spot where their remains have been interred.
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Fables of Aesop and others : translated into English with instructive applications; and a print before each fable
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The foundling of the lake: an original romance
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Frankenstein
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Leonora
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Original Poetry; by Victor and Cazire
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The young travellers, or, A visit to the grandmother: containing with a variety of incidental topics, a sketch of the elements of zoology, botany, mineralogy, and other branches of natural history
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Instructions on needle-work and knitting
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Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, her husband. By Edward Baldwin, Esq.
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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician
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Mrs. Leicester's school; or, The history of several young ladies, related by themselves. Ninth edition.
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Andrea Magnarotto manuscript material : 2 items
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Cardinal Rusconi manuscript material : 4 items
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Catherine Gordon Byron manuscript material : 10 items
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Harriet Grove manuscript material
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John Frank Newton manuscript material : 2 items
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Joseph Hume (Somerset House clerk) manuscript material
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A compendious system of astronomy
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Margherita Cogni manuscript material : 2 items
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Marina Querini Benzon manuscript material : 3 items
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Fleetwood: or, The new man of feeling.
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Mary Robinson manuscript material
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Odoardo Machirelli manuscript material : 2 items
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St. Leon: a tale of the sixteenth century
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The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B. N. R. D. family: in a series of poetical epistles
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George Dyson manuscript material
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Samuel Romilly manuscript material : 1 item
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Frankenstein: a romantic drama, in three acts
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Thomas Charters manuscript material
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Thomas Hume manuscript material
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Traduzione del Lamento di Torquato Tasso di Lord Byron e Riposta di Leonora di Gaetano Polidori
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Letters on the improvement of the mind: addressed to a lady
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Manuscript diary of an Italian journey, 23 Jul 1818-Aug 1819
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William Hazlitt manuscript material
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Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald ...
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Catharine Macaulay autograph letter (copy) signed to Mary Wollstonecraft, 30 December 1790
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Mrs. Leicester's school, or, The history of several young ladies, related by themselves
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Original stories from real life with conversations, calcuated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness
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Practical hints to young females, on the duties of a wife, a mother, and a mistress of a family
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Heirloom scarf ring descended through family of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Antonia Clairmont manuscript material
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The History of Mary Wood, the house-maid, or, The danger of false excuses
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The book of household management
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The courtezan, or, The adventures of Harriet Wilson
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The female advocate: or An attempt to recover the rights of women from male usurpation.
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The guide to domestic happiness
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The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume
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The polite lady, or, A course of female education: in a series of letters from a mother to her daughter
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The surprising adventures of a female husband!
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The August 23rd blouse
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Julia Conyers album
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Alphabet discs
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A new and improved grammar of the English tongne [sic] : for the use of schools : in which the genius of our speech is especially attended to, and the discoveries of Mr. Horne Tooke and other modern writers on the formation of language are for the firs...
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Biography of a spaniel : to which is annexed The idiot, a tale
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The complaint, and the consolation: or, Night thoughts.
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The crim-con gazette
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The temple of nature; or, The origin of society: a poem, with philosophical notes
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Quattro chiacchiere colle ragazze
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Outlines of English grammar. Partly abridged from Mr. Hazlitt's new and improved grammar of the English language. By Edward Baldwin, Esq.
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Illustrations of phrenology. With engravings. By Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Bart. F. R. S. Lond. P.Ph. Cl. R. S. Ed. V. P. S. S. A., president of the Astronomical Institution of Edinburgh; honorary member of the Royal Commission for Antiquities, and of the I...
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The female guardian: designed to correct some of the foibles incident to girls, and supply them with innocent amusement for their hours of leisure
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Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus; to which is added vol. 1 of F. Schiller's The Ghost-Seer
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Passages from my autobiography
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An alphabetical catalogue with notes of theatrical representations &ca: submitted for licencing from the year 1737, to the year 1787 inclusive, being 50 years
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The kettle abusing the pot: a satirical poem
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Poems
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Stories of old Daniel, or, Tales of wonder and delight
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Robert Southey manuscript material
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The trial of Thomas Theaker, coachman
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William, Duke of Clarence autograph letter signed to Dorothy Jordan, 25 September 1812
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The mysteries of Udolpho: A romance, interspersed with some pieces of poetry
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The new pilgrim's progress, or, A journey to Jerusalem
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Conundrum fan
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Edward Ellerker Williams manuscript material
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Anne Wagner album
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James and Horace Smith: A family narrative based upon hitherto unpublished private diaries, letters, and other documents
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The queen's matrimonial ladder, a national toy, with fourteen step scenes
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Lady Anne Hamilton commonplace book of poetry
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The life and labours of Vincent Novello
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The works of Lord Byron ... with illustrations
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The science of love, or, The whole art of courtship...
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The reading room of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, New York Public Library
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Tales of terror: with an introductory dialogue
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life : in two volumes.
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Queen Mab. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1821 edition, London).
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The young woman's guide to virtue, economy, and happiness: being an improved and pleasant directory for cultivating the heart and understanding...
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Un marito pur che sia! romanzio intimo
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Autograph letter signed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 6 Jul 1822
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Queen Mab. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1829 edition).
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Queen Mab. By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1826 edition)
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Tales of the dead: principally translated from the French
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The modern Minerva, or, The bat's seminary for young ladies: a satire on female education
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Fantasmagoriana, ou, Recueil d'histoires d'apparitions de spectres, revenans, fantômes, etc.
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
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The fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance
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The last man
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Elizabeth Inchbald manuscript material
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One of the graces making a man; or, Frankenstein outdone. Phillips fec.
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Wolfstein; or, The mysterious bandit: a terrific romance ... to which is added, The bronze statue, a pathetic tale
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Fragments of the skull of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Boys' weekly reader novelette: a complete story weekly
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This evening, Friday, July 20th, 1827, will be presented (first time this season) the comick opera of Love in a village
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Dicks' standard plays. The iron chest.
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Letter of advice to a young American, on the course of studies it might be most advantageous for him to pursue
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Vancenza, or The dangers of credulity
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Domestic misery, or, The victim of seduction : a pathetic tale; addressed to the unprincipled libertine.
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Sappho and Phaon: in a series of legitimate sonnets, with thoughts on poetical subjects, and anecdotes of the Grecian poetess
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A picturesque tour of Italy: from drawings made in 1816-1817
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The book of spirits, and tales of the dead
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Elegiac sonnets, and other poems
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
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Engagement ring given to Harriet Westbrook by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell, holograph autobiographical account
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Mary Hays manuscript material
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Aurora Leigh
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Pencil drawing of a hand, by Queen Victoria
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: [trading card]
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Memoirs of Her late Royal Highness Charlotte-Augusta of Wales, and of Saxe-Cobourg ...
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Lectures on natural philosophy
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Endless entertainment: or, comic, terrific, and legendary tales
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
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Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus
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Fables ancient and modern. Adapted for the use of children from three to eight years of age. By Edward Baldwin, Esq.
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Robert Southey autograph letter signed to Edith Southey, 6 October 1801
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border; consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland
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The public entry of the Queen into Jerusalem
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley [revised press proof]
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Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the use of young persons. By Charles Lamb.
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Pauline Clairmont manuscript material
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Sketchbook containing views recording a tour in Switzerland and France
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Mounseer Nongtongpaw: a new version
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Andrew Kippis manuscript material
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Wilhelm Charles Gaulis Clairmont manuscript material
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The Cenci: a tragedy, in five acts
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Charles Lamb manuscript material : 10 items
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Cornelia Newton manuscript material : 1 item
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Creak & Capel manuscript material
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Daniel M'Kinnen manuscript material
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A description of Millenium hall
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Ettore: tragedia improvvisata
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Lives of the necromancers (with tipped in autograph letter signed to Thomas Northmore, 3 January [1803])
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Harriet Collins Boinville manuscript material : 1 item
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An introduction to botany: in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
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Harriet Westbrook Shelley manuscript material : 3 items
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Angelica's Ladies Library: or, Parents and guardians present
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Mylius's school dictionary of the English language ... : to which is prefixed : A new guide to the English tongue. By Edward Baldwin, Esq. The fifth edition.
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Harry Buxton Forman manuscript material
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux manuscript material : 15 items
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Henry Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 6 items
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Elisa, ossia, È una disgrazia l'esser donna ...
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Henry Willey Reveley manuscript material
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Horace Smith manuscript material : 81 items
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Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi manuscript material : 3 items
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Memorial of Napoleon
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J. A. Hessey manuscript material : 5 items
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James Lind manuscript material
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Domestic manners of the Americans
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The life and transactions of Margaret Nicholson
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John Keenan manuscript material
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John Mackenzie Kennedy manuscript material
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Elements of morality: for the use of children with an introductory address to parents
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The English housekeeper, or, Manual of domestic management
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Joseph Kennerley manuscript material
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Madame de Staël manuscript material : 5 items
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English laws for women in the nineteenth century
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Marianne Hunt manuscript material : 10 items
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Fables for the female sex
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Charlotte Brontë manuscript material
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Mary Elizabeth Robinson manuscript material
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Pynson Wilmot Longdill manuscript material
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
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R. W. Hayward manuscript material : 1 item
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Robert Clarke manuscript material : 1 item
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Edward John Trelawny manuscript material
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material