In childhood, Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and her siblings created a rich imaginary world, sparked by a set of toy soldiers given to Branwell by their father, and ch
A slim unpretentious volume of tile designs is one of only three known survivng examples of Mintons first trade catalogue.
Sal Mager, Senior Archivist, writes: A rapid response from the Friends of the National Library to a request for funding enabled Shropshire Archives to acquire at auction the Loyal Hope of
On 15 June 2016, with support from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Charles Dickens Museum successfully bid at Bonham’s for the Pi
This incunable is a popular devotional and moralising work, written in the vernacular, and printed in Vicenza by Johannes de Reno in 1476.
On 18th May 2019, a rare copy of the seminal publication Mirskontsa [Worldbackwards] was offered at auction at Nosbüsch & Stucke auction house in Berlin.
Family and estate papers concerning financial settlements, genealogy, appointments and honours.
Contain letters from William Fermor about import and export of coffee and the sufferings of Catholics under the land tax plus a letter from Pitt to Earl Camden in 1805 concerning emergency meansure
Presented by the British Records Association.
3rd edition, presented by Basil Soulsby
Presented with various other books, some listed in AR, by Dr Harley Granville-Barker
Printed in Paris, presented with a French piracy of Scotts The Monastery, 1838 by Major WRD Mackenzie