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James Orchard HALLIWELL (later HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS) (1820-1889)



Wright, George R.: A brief memoir of the late J.O.Halliwell-Phillipps
Lee, Sidney.: James Halliwell entry in the Dictionary of National Biography
Winsor, Justin. (& Annie E.Hutchins): Halliwelliana: A bibliography of the publications of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.

Halliwell, J. O.: On the Means Adopted to Insure the Rarity of the Privately Printed Works of James O. Halliwell

Halliwell, J.O.: The Gardens of Shakespeare
Halliwell, J.O.: The National Shakesperian Fund; The Laws of the National Shakesperian Fund; The Estate of New Place; The Great Garden of New Place
Halliwell, J.O.: Curiosities of Modern Shaksperian Criticism.
Halliwell, J.O.: Early Editions of Shakespeare
Halliwell, J.O.: Hand-List of Shaksperiana
Halliwell, J.O.: A New Boke about Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon [includes an essay by Washington Irving & woodcuts by F.W.Fairholt]
Halliwell, J.O.: An Account of the Only Known Manuscript of Shakespeare's Plays
Halliwell, J.O.: Shakespeare and the Armada
Halliwell, J.O.: A few remarks on the emendation, "who smothers her with painting," in the play of Cymbeline
Halliwell, J.O.: Selected Notes upon Shakespeare's Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Halliwell, J.O.: The Last Days of William Shakespeare
Halliwell, J.O.: A Life of William Shakespeare. [part version]
Halliwell, J.O.: Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare. [First part, with complete text and appendix to follow. No second part]

Halliwell, J.O.: Brief Observations on some Ancient Systems of Notation
Halliwell, J.O.: History of the Discovery of the Composition of Water
Halliwell, J.O.: Collection of Notes on the Early History of Science in Ireland
Halliwell, J.O.: The Connexion of Wales with the Early Science of England
Halliwell, J.O. : A Brief Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of Sir Samuel Morland. [Including: A Treatise on the Numeration of Algorism]

Halliwell, J.O.: A Random Note on the Good Old Times
Halliwell, J.O. : Contributions to English Lexicography
Halliwell, J.O. : A Brief Account of an Unique Edition of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia
Halliwell, J.O. : An Account of the European Manuscripts in the Chetham Library, Manchester

Halliwell, J.O. (ed.): The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham
Halliwell, J.O. (ed.): The Sackful of News
Halliwell, J.O. (coll. & ed.): The Nursery Rhymes of England (4th edition with illustrations; plus earlier editions).
Halliwell, J.O. (coll. & ed.): Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales.
Halliwell, J.O.(coll. & ed.): Books of Characters illustrating the Habits and Manners of Englishmen from the Reign of James I. to the Restoration. [Including:]
      Anon: The Wandering Jew telling Fortunes to Englishmen
      Anon: The Man in the Moone telling Strange Fortunes; or, The English Fortune-Teller
      John Stephens: Essayes and Characters, Ironicall, and Instructive
      Donald Lupton: London and the Countrey Carbonadoed and Quartred

Halliwell, J.O. (coll. & ed.): The Jokes of the Cambridge Coffee-Houses in the Seventeenth Century

Halliwell, J.O.: William Baldwin: Beware the Cat, 1570. [From a 19th century transcription, with Halliwell's typography]
      William Baldwin: Beware the Cat, 1570. [From a 19th century transcription, with modern typography]

Halliwell, J.O. (ed.): Notices of Players Acting at Ludlow
Halliwell, J.O.(ed.): The Early History of Freemasonry in England
Halliwell, J.O.(ed.): The Boke of Curtasye
Halliwell, J.O.(ed.): A Brief Description of the Ancient & Modern Manuscripts preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth. [Including:]
      Nicholas Breton: The Countesse of Penbrook's Passion
      Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery: The Generall
      Dr Simon Forman: Notices & extracts from his 'Metrical Autobiography'.

Halliwell, J.O.(ed.): The Alchemical Testament of John Gybbys of Exeter

Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: Correspondence with Robert Browning, 1881.
      [Response by F. Furnivall.]


Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: The Stratford Records
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: The Stratford Records and The Shakespeare Autotypes
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: A Brief Report on the Interchange of Books, Relics, &c, between the New Place and the Birthplace Museum, and on the re-arrangement of the Library
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: Memoranda on the Present State of the Birth-Place Trust
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: New Evidences in confirmation of the Traditional Recognition of Shakespeare's Birth-Room
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: The Proposed so-called Restoration of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Stratford-on-Avon

Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: New Lamps or Old? A few additional words on the momentous question respecting the E and the A in the name of our national dramatist
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: Cursory Memoranda on Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: Memoranda on Shakespeare's Tempest
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: Discursive Notes on Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.: The Fool and the Ice






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SIXTEENTH & SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES



Percy, William: Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594)
      Percy, William: Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594), without 16th century typography
      Lee, Sidney: Percy entry in The Dictionary of National Biography.

Fane, Mildmay: Otia Sacra (1648), without 17th century typography
      Fane, Mildmay: Otia Sacra (1648), with 17th century typography
      Rigg, J.M.: Fane entry in The Dictionary of National Biography.
      Notes regarding this publication of Otia Sacra.

The following is linked here due to its falling into the 16th/17th centuries. Its publication does not appear to be a private one, although Baldwin himself was at one time a printer (but not for this publication):
Baldwin, William or G. B.: Beware the Cat (1570, 1584), without 16th century typography
      Baldwin, William or G. B.: Beware the Cat (1570, 1584), with 16th century typography
      Biographical & literary references to William Baldwin from Joseph Ames/Thomas Dibdin, William Carew Hazlitt, John Payne Collier, Joseph Ritson, & A.H. Bullen.




George THOMASON (c.1602-1666) & Octavian PULLEN



Fortescue, G. K.: Preface to 'Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661'. Vol I.


Buchanan, David: Truth its Manifest.
     Skottowe, B.C.: Buchanan entry in The Dictionary of National Biography.


Puget de la Serre, Jean: Histoire de l'entree de la Reyne Mere du roy tres-chrestien dans les Provinces Unies des Pays-Bas. (In preparation)
      Illustrations, modern directory, for Histoire de l'entree ... dans les Provinces Unies des Pays-Bas. (Directory for illustrations to Histoire de l'entree ... dans la Grande Bretaigne will be separate).






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NINETEENTH CENTURY



Chambers, Robert: Poems
     Watt, Francis.: Robert Chambers entry in the Dictionary of National Biography
Chambers, Robert : Popular Rhymes, Fireside Stories, & Amusements of Scotland




FROGMORE LODGE press, Windsor (c.1809-1817)



Frogmore Lodge: Illustration appearing in one of the editions of Translations from the German
Martin, John: Entry to Frogmore Lodge in Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books, 2nd edition

Frogmore Lodge press: A Chronological Abridgement of the History of Spain
Frogmore Lodge press: A Chronological Abridgement of the History of Germany
Frogmore Lodge press: A Chronological Abridgement of the History of France
Frogmore Lodge press: A Chronological Abridgement of the History of Portugal
Frogmore Lodge press: A Chronological Abridgement of the History of Ancient Rome
(The 'Chronological Abridgement...'s were printed on cards, bound in book form)

Knight, Ellis Cornelia, (translator): Translations from the German in prose and verse
Knight, Ellis Cornelia, (translator): First pages of another edition
Knight, Ellis Cornelia, Samuel Rogers, W.R. Spencer, & others: Miscellaneous: poems

FURTHER REFERENCES
To Frogmore Lodge.
To Ellis Cornelia Knight.
      Kaye, J.W.: Introduction to Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, lady companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales. This contains a biographical note
      Stoddard, Richard, ed.: Biographical comment from Personal Reminiscences by Cornelia Knight and Thomas Raikes
      Knight, Ellis Cornelia, edited by J.W. Kaye: Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, lady companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales (Chapters 10 to 17, Vol 1, with some summarised omissions)




LEE PRIORY PRESS, Kent (1813-1823)



Wroth, Warwick.: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges entry in the Dictionary of National Biography

Brydges, Sir Egerton: A catalogue of all the works printed at the private press at Lee Priory in Kent
Brydges, Sir Egerton: Select Funeral Memorials
Brydges, Sir Egerton: Desultoria : or Comments of a South-Briton on Books and Men
Brydges, Sir Egerton: Bertram, a poetical tale
Brydges, Sir Egerton: The Muse of Lough Corrib
Brydges, Sir Egerton: To the friends and admirers of Robert Bloomfield
Brydges, Sir Egerton: To a lady
Brydges, Sir Egerton: May-Day
Brydges, Sir Egerton: Five Sonnets addressed to Wootton
Brydges, Sir Egerton: A Brief Character of Matthew Lord Rokeby
      Le Grys Norgate, G.: Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, entry in the Dictionary of National Biography

Quillinan, Edward: Woodcuts and Verses
Quillinan, Edward: Dunluce Castle, a poem
Quillinan, Edward: Elegiac Verses, addressed to a lady
       Garnett, Richard.: Edward Quillinan entry in the Dictionary of National Biography

Raleigh, Sir Walter: The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: now first collected, with a biographical and critical introduction by Sir Egerton Brydges
Browne, William: Original poems, never before published ... with a preface and notes by Sir Egerton Brydges
Chapman, George: An Epicede, or Funeral Song: On the most disastrous Death of the High-born Prince of Men, Henry Prince of Wales, &c. &c. Who Died the 6th of November, 1612
Roberts, Henry: The Trumpet of Fame, the second edition.
Wotton, Henry: 'The Characters of Robert Devereux and George Villiers'
      Lee, Sidney.: Sir Henry Wotton entry in the Dictionary of National Biography

Lee Priory Press: Woodcuts & decorative rules from 'Woodcuts and Verses', with links to enlargements. [This is a modern reference.]






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HISTORY OF PRINTING, TYPOGRAPHY
& THE PRIVATE PRESS



Bouchot, Henri & Edward Bigmore: The Printed Book, Its History, Illustration, and Adornment, from the days of Gutenberg to the present time.
Winship, George Parker: Gutenberg to Plantin: an outline of the early history of printing
Jacobi, Charles T.: Some Notes on Books and Printing: a guide for authors, publishers & others
Martin, John: Introduction to 2nd edition of the Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books
Dickson, Robert: Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland
MacKay, A.J.G. : A short note on the Local Presses of Scotland
Scott, John: The Arithmetica of Jordanus Nemorarius. Paris, 1496. — Is it the first book with the printing of which a Scotsman was connected ?
Duff, E. Gordon: The Two First Books printed in the Scottish Language

FURTHER READING REFERENCES
To the History of Printing, Typography & Publishing.






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MIDDLE EAST MISCELLANY



Republic of Iraq: Iraq A Guidebook (1961)

Government of Iraq: Iraq Today ... (1953)

Cookery in the Middle East :
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society Women's Branch: Recipes from Baghdad 1952 and 1961 editions


Historical narratives :
Gertrude Lowthian Bell : Amurath to Amurath. (1924, 2nd edn)
     Hogarth, W.D.: Bell entry in The Dictionary of National Biography.
St. George's Memorial Church, Baghdad. : Parish booklet with short history (undated)

Israel Intelligence Service 1977 : 1979 US description of the organisation.
Yitzhak Rabin : 1974 US government biographical assessment.

Historical witness:
    —   Don Bunyan. Live recording of an Iraqi revolution ?1963/66: mp3 version (5mb); wma version (2mb).


Political responses to current British foreign policy in Middle East :
    —  George Galloway, M.P.(2nd April, 2004) Presscom film.
    —  Brian Haw, demonstrator against the war in Iraq, Parliament Square, Westminster, London. (2nd June, 2001– ) Visual media; link to Mr Haw's web site.
    —  'British Intelligence' and a potential source of inspiration (1970) Sound media






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LIST OF UNKNOWN OR DESTROYED SOURCE MATERIAL

These are items from various mediums which have heretofore escaped publication, completely or within the British Isles.



Out of the Unknown:
(1)   Theme tune c1976.
(2)   Ballet courtesies, 2004.
(3)   Moon music video, June 2005.
(4)   Television themes:
      - The Mind Beyond, theme music (?), 1970s
      - Roads to Freedom 'La Route est Dure' 1970 mp3 format - m4a format - wma format;
      - Big Brother 1970 mp3 format - m4a format - wma format;
      - Flamingo Road 1980s mp3 format - m4a format - wma format.
(5)   Maps:
      - Andrees Berliner Schul-Atlas 1916. Detailed maps of Berlin and other countries, for the Kaiser generation of schoolchildren. (These images are large, as are their enlargements)





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