Aesop. [Aesop’s fables in Greek and Latin]
Lucille Munoz, Rare Books Curator, writes: In December 2020, the Friends of the National Libraries provided generous financial assistance to enable the
Lucille Munoz, Rare Books Curator, writes: In December 2020, the Friends of the National Libraries provided generous financial assistance to enable the
In 1768 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) became an excise officer in Lewes, where he lodged at Bull House with the nonconformist grocer Samuel Ollive, whose daughter Elizabeth he married in 1771.
Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers relating to the ‘Delilah’ project.
Lockhart is best remembered today as the biographer of Scott and for his biting attacks on the poetry of Leigh Hunt and Keats in Blackwoods Magazine, but in his youth he was also a spirited caricat
Probably by Dance the younger, some may be by James Peacock
An album of drawings of buildings and scenes in the west Hampshire village of Wellow by an unknown artist, c. 1846.
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was one Britain’s most influential garden designers.
30 letters including ones from Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, Thomas Roscoe, Reginald Heber and George Jardine as well as Wilsons professors at Glasgow and Oxford.
Parker was Captain of the Pleasure yachts Jason I and Jason II owned by the Bibby family of Liverpool, then master of the yacht Iolanda owned by Moses Taylor of New York and of Sir Robert Houstons
360 salt prints, a unique set of views of British keybuildings in Lucknow and Delhi, many portraits of civilians, soldiers and their families, Indian princes and others living in Lucknow at the tim
‘Sold to the Griffith Institute!’: on 9 May 2017 the Griffith Institute acquired at auction at Sotheby’ an