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E. Gordon Duff

Edward Gordon Duff (1863–1924) was a bibliographer and librarian with a particular interest in early printed books. He was librarian of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, from 1893 to 1900, and Sandars Reader in Bibliography at ...
An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding;

An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding;

E. Gordon 1863-1924 Duff

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and ...

Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and ...

Joseph A. Dane

Perhaps the worst tangle occurs in E. Gordon Duff's rather strident critique of Blades, whom he holds accountable to bibliographical standards declared by Duff himself, standards much less nuanced than those of Blades quoted above. To Duff ...
The Incunabala print from Oxford and St. Albans

The Incunabala print from Oxford and St. Albans

Michael Gärtner

60 E. Gordon Duff (ed.), Fifteenth Century English Books. A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed abroad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1917), 1. 61Edward Gordon Duff , The ...
Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and ...

Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and ...

E. Gordon Duff

Duff's 1899 Sandars Lectures discuss the workings of the book trade in London during the fifteenth century.
The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and ...

The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and ...

E. Gordon Duff

and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 14.76 to I535 BY E. GORDON DUFF, M.A. Oxon. Sometime Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge Cambridge at the University Press CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ...
A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964

A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964

Cameron Hazlehurst

SIR (ALFRED) DUFF COOPER, ist VISCOUNT NORWICH (1890-1954) Duff Cooper was Conservative MP for Oldham 1924-29, and for Westminster (St George's) 1931-45. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office Jan 1928-June 1929 ...
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008

Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008

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Grandchildren of late James Duff Duff, 3rd son of late Col James Duff of Knockleith (ante) :- Issue of late Maj-Gen Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE. MC. 4 1896, d 1973: m 1935, Diana Frances, who d 2003. el da of late Col Richard Parry ...
The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of ...

The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of ...

Walter Lewis Zorn

3 Mary Jane Harrison b 1835 m Apr 14 1859 d Sep 14 1867 m Samuel Vance Morris b 1833 d 1913 (subsequently m to ... Morris b 1863 S 4 Elizabeth Irwin Morris b 1863 m 1903 d 1940 nc m Edmund Gordon Reel 3 Anna Symmes Harrison b ...
The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the ...

The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the ...

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2002a, 143–5); Duff 2003, 92–93. Cf. also the supernatural ... 5.8 ('the beauty of a hero's statue'): see Duff 1999, 168–170. 59 As noted in ... 2003 and 2008a. Both characteristics will soon be in evidence: for example, when 202 Timothy E. Duff.
Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L

Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L

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PASCHAL BAUMSTEIN, O.S.B. See also Abbot: Christian; United States: Western Christian Biography Leo Michael Haid, a Benedictine monk (1868-1924) , abbot (1885-1924), abbot-«M///MS (1910-1924), and Catholic bishop (1887/88- 1924), ...
Encyclopedia of Monasticism

Encyclopedia of Monasticism

William M. Johnston

Paschal Baumstein, O.S.B. See also Abbot: Christian; United States: Western Christian Biography Leo Michael Haid, a Benedictine monk (1868-1924), abbot ( 1885-1924), abbot-nullius (1910-1924), and Catholic bishop (1887/88-1924), was a ...
The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine

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The Rt. Hon. A. DUFF COOPER P.C, D.S.O. A/fr- Duff Cooper in Downing Street on the way to a Cabinet Meeting during the crisis of September, 1938. THERE is a romantic background to the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C, D.S.O., M.P., ...
Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction

Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction

M.C. Rintoul

COOPER, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-54) Politician, diplomat and author. In 1919 he married Lady Diana Manners (Cooper, below), and in 1924 he became MP for Oldham. In 1937 he became First Lord of the Admiralty, but ...
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage

Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage

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... W. Peckham, Maidstone, Kent), b. 1891.-Helen Mary (The Old Vicarage, W. Peckham, Maidstone, Kent), b. 1894. Grandchildren of the late James Duff Duff ( infra):— Issue of the late Maj.-Gen. Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE, MC, b. 1896, d.
Winston Churchill: A Biographical Companion

Winston Churchill: A Biographical Companion

Chris Wrigley

Alfred. Duff. (Viscount. Norwich,. 1890–1954). D. uff Cooper was one of Churchill's oldest friends.He was also a political supporter of Churchill in 1924– 1929 and notably after Munich, 1938.The Churchills and Coopers frequently met at social ...
The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders ...

The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders ...

E. Gordon Duff

Based on The Sandars Lectures for 1911, this 1912 volume provides a historical study of provincial bookbinding.
A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All ...

A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All ...

E. Gordon Duff

This biographical dictionary gives a fascinating picture of the spread of printing in England up to the mid-sixteenth century.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1954: July-December

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GORDON, CHARLOTTE ANN. ... GORDON, MELVIN J., N. G. STONE AND S. Z. GORDON d.b.a. MANCHESTER HOSIERY MILLS. ... 182 p. © Sarah Gordon; 25Dec 55; A15060l. GORDON, SHERMAN M. Hypnotising for entertainment. 20 l.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1924

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1924

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

By Annie Lockhart Chesley, with an introduction by Samuel McChord Crothers. Boston, The Beacon press, inc., 1924. ix, 109 p. 19°". (C) May 23, 1924; 2c. and aff. May 24; A 792562; Beacon press, inc. (24–17233) 3791 Duchêne, Ferdinand.
The Unforeseeable Circumstances of Mr Gordon Brown

The Unforeseeable Circumstances of Mr Gordon Brown

Andrew Duff

Founded in 1945 as a research and educational charity, the Federal Trust is now one of Europe's leading think-tanks on European integration and publishes a wide range of monographs and topical reports.

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