English antiquarian and writer (1810-1877)

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Thomas Wright. Stipple engraving by D. J. Pound, 1859, after Maull & Polyblank.

A history of domestic manners and sentiments in England during the middle ages / by Thomas Wright ; with illustrations from the illuminations in contemporary manuscripts and other sources, drawn & engraved by F.W. Fairholt.

Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

Early travels in Palestine : comprising the narratives of Arculf ... [et al.] / Edited, with notes, by Thomas Wright.

Alexandri Neckam De naturis rerum libri duo : with the poem of the same author, De laudibus divinæ sapientiæ / edited by Thomas Wright ; published by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of The Rolls.

Biographia Britannica literaria; or, biography of literary characters of Great Britain and Ireland. Anglo-Saxon period / arranged in chronological order.

Gesta Romanorum, or, entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit / translated by Charles Swan.

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Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877

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A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

Early travels in Palestine : comprising the narratives of Arculf ... [et al.] / Edited, with notes, by Thomas Wright.

Alexandri Neckam De naturis rerum libri duo : with the poem of the same author, De laudibus divinæ sapientiæ / edited by Thomas Wright ; published by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of The Rolls.

Biographia Britannica literaria; or, biography of literary characters of Great Britain and Ireland. Anglo-Saxon period / arranged in chronological order.

Gesta Romanorum, or, entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit / translated by Charles Swan.