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In unusually good and complete condition. 19 initials illuminated in red, pink, organge, yellow, blue and green, with a generous quantity of gold and a little silver. MS Add 115

In its original monastic binding with two other religious treatises

With watercolour sketch plan of the Battle of Seringapatam

The accumulation of a lifetimes fanatical collecting. Estimated as possibly 750,000 portrait engravings, particularly strong in 18th and 19th century work; the periods in which the NPG was until this acquisition, particularly weak

Only one other copy known, at BL. Bought with The Seynge of Urynes 1562 of which only one other copy is known, at the Wellcome Historical Medical Library

Noteable specimen of the handwriting of the pioneer of cinematography. Add MS 53816. Presented by John Ehrman

The first German translation of Plutarch's Moralia, boun din contemporary German pigskin. Presented by Mr & Mrs Albert Ehrman

A slim volume of First World War poetry, not previously in BL . Presented by Peter Davies

Bound by Edwards of Halifax with a fore-edge painting of Chatsworth House

Over 650 drawings designs and rubbings of book bindings, many of the works executed by TS Caley. Designs by De Sauty, Walter Crane, Wadsworth and Miss Talbot