- Anne Dennis Reynett, Poems Selected from the Writings of the Late Anne Dennis Reynett ([Operative Jewish Converts' Institution], 1871). A privately-printed book of mainly devotional poems, not intended for general distribution. Reynett was the sister of Sir James Reynett, and resided (along with some of her relatives) in Hampton Court Palace. There's a Victorian description of the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution here.
- Paul Bowles, The Stories of Paul Bowles (Harper Perennial, 2003). The collected stories.
- Alessandro Gavazzi, Father Gavazzi's Lectures in New York... (De Witt & Davenport, 1853). Gavazzi was an ex-priest turned popular Protestant lecturer and organizer. In 1853, he sparked a series of riots in Québec. The NPG has what may be some portraits of Gavazzi; see also an engraving at the NYPL.
- Leslie P. Fairfield, John Bale: Mythmaker for the English Reformation (Purdue, 1976). Study of Bale's historiography.
UPDATE: Don't miss Geoffrey Chaucer's own list of acquisitions, the highlights of which include The Doctours: The C and I Moost Dangerous Scholastic Thinkers in Europe ("The worste by far ys Thomas Aquinas, who hath argued from Aristoteles principle of the first entelechy that the forme of the soule containeth the sensitif and vegitatif soules, in contradiccioun of the gret tradiciouns of the chirche") and the Harley Lyrics ("BOOOOOORNE TO WAXEN WOODE...").
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