Unusual publishers device on title page appearing to show English royal arms, although the book was published in Paris. Only copy known. Presented by EP Goldschmidt
Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library.
Seventeen volumes comprising the author’s copy of A History of the Birds of Europe by Henry Eeles Dresser, 19th century.
The autobiography is 630 pages long, revised and corrected throughout, including passages about the death of Katherine Manfield not in the printed edition.
Includes eight poems by Byron composed in the period 1812-15, She Walks in Beauty among them described as Lines written by Lord Byron after seeing Mrs Wilmot at Lansdowne House).
Lent for 5 years by L McCormick-Goodhart. Illustrated as plate VII of AR. In 1945 this was converted to an outright gift to mark VE Day. Add MS 46132, ff.1, 21
Petty Officer Browning kept a diary during Captain Scotts second Antarctic expedition, recording every day events on board ship.
Izzy Wall, Assistant Curator, writes: The Herschel Museum of Astronomy is very grateful to FNL for their g
‘The Watsons’ is Jane Austen’s first extant draft of a novel in process of development, and one of the earliest examples of an English novel to survive in its formative state.
a late autograph draft manuscript of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ celebrated poem 'Binsey Poplars'.
Miss Pamela Willetts writes: The autograph full scores of 'The Yeomen of the Guard' and ‘The Mikado' have been for many years in the libraries of the Royal College of Mu
The letter concerns Duveen's translation of Vile Bodies and contains a potted autobiography of his life as well as an inscribed portrait after Henry Lamb.
