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3 quarto volumes. Manuscript also contains drafts of reviews and articles some of which, like Joseph Conrad appeared in The Common Reader. Add MSS 51044-51046. Illustrated as plate I of AR

A n autograph fair copy of a sonnet of lament for the vanished liberties of the Genoese republic Genova bella, a cui laltiera voce. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith. Add MS 51020G

Key was author of The Star Spangled Banner. Presented by L. McCormick-Goodhart. Add MS 51020, f 43

This collection is arranged alphabetically and covers the letters A - F only. It contains letters from many literary figures of the day and love letters from his future wife Anna Francesca Stratford. Presented by TS Blakeney. Add MSS 52285, 52286

Bound with Judiciarius ordo by the same author, also printed at Paris by the Printer of Ockam, 1476. The latter printer was not previously represented in BL collections. A good large copy with unusual fore-edge title in gold on purple and with two gold illuminated incipit initials

The Latin text with translation into French by Guy Jouvenaux, abbot of St Sulpice, Bourges. A fine copy with two large woodcuts, illustrated as plate II of AR

A splendid example of the binding work of the Devontional Binder in red morocco with drawer-handle and sunflower tools in black and slate grey. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

First edition of this important work on English architecture, presented by Arthur Gimson

A collection of 48 plans of towns in Scotland engraved or lithographed on large scales. The plans give the names of property owners and indications of land use. Very rare, no other copy known in an English library, four only in Scotland

A map of the Kingdom of Slavonia and the Duchy of Syrmia drawn after the signing of the Peace of Passarowitz, 1718, to depict territories annexed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the Turks. Presented by Arthur Gimson