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Fine folio manuscript in double column written in an early Gothic hand with decorated large initial letters in red or blue. Bound by Hering in russia, gilt

Spielmann was editor of The Magazine of Art. Collection contains 52 letters from Ford Madox Brown, 80 from Watts, 13 from Holman Hunt, 103 from Frith and 21 from William Michael Rossetti

Large illuminated initial opens the document with a half length portrait of Charles I painted in colours and enclosed in a yellow baroque frame. Presented by WL Wood

Numbers 1 - 17 of this rare Irish periodic al, containing politcal articles plus original poems, comments on contemporary literature and a regular column on the theatre

The binding on this book, with a posthumous portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, appears to be the earliest English trade binding designed to cover copies of a particular book

First edition of the Laws of the Island after it came into British possession in 1655, plus a short account of the Island and a map. 50 donation was given by Arthur Gimson

Manuscripts of 45 poems, four with interesting marginal comments by TS Eliot, the original MS of his War Diary (published as From Alamein to Zem Zem) and a large number of drawings, paintings and sketches. Add MSS 53773 - 53776

Manuscript in roll form showing acquisition of rents. Presented by Dr EG Millar. Add MS 52779

Bennett was steward of Lord Arundell of Wardour; the book refers to the Arundell property in Wiltshire and Bennetts draft will. Presented by TS Blakeney

126 leaves complete in a modern binding by Douglas Cockerell. Contains two prayers addressed to Richard Scrope, the Archbishop of York executed in 1405 by King Henry IV and popularly venerated as a saint at York, which are unique to this manuscript