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  2. Thomas Phillipps - Wikipedia

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    Phillipps recorded in an early catalogue that his collection was instigated by reading various accounts of the destruction of valuable manuscripts. [3] Such was his devotion that he acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts, arguably the largest collection a single individual has created, and coined the term "vello-maniac" [ 4 ...

  3. James Halliwell-Phillipps - Wikipedia

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    James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born James Orchard Halliwell; 21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English writer, Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

  4. Notebook of William Blake - Wikipedia

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    The Poems of William Blake, ed. by W. B. Yeats, 1893, rev. 1905. The poetical works of William Blake; a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letterpress originals; With variorum readings and bibliographical notes and prefaces, edited by Sampson, John, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1905. The Note-book of William Blake, ed. G. Keynes ...

  5. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    One of only two surviving manuscripts documenting the genesis of general relativity. Albert Einstein, Michele Besso: c. 1912–13 November 2021 [21] $17 $12.15 This is the auction price of one page of the book. Illustrated folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. From the illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic poem presented by Tahmasp to ...

  6. List of poetry collections - Wikipedia

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    A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets ) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku ).

  7. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It's Raining, It's Pouring: United States 1912 [53] The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in "The Little Mother Goose", published in the United States in 1912. Jack Sprat: England 1639 [54] First appearance in John Clarke's collection of sayings. Kookaburra

  8. Katherine Philips - Wikipedia

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    In 1664, an edition of her poetry entitled Poems by the Incomparable Mrs. K.P. was published; this was an unauthorised edition that made several grievous errors. [9] In March 1664, Philips travelled to London with a nearly completed translation of Corneille's Horace, but died of smallpox.

  9. Miscellany - Wikipedia

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    Evoking both the muses and the encyclopedia in its title, Musapaedia aptly brings together a variety of poems and authors into a single volume.. A miscellany (UK: / m ɪ ˈ s ɛ l ə n i /, US: / ˈ m ɪ s ə l eɪ n i /) [1] [2] is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.