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The composition was inspired by Holst's holiday in Algeria in 1908.  The Moorish melodies he heard on the streets poured onto the page to create a distinct sound.

The manuscript comprises seven pages of script, the draft of a chapter of Imogen Holst's book about her father. The chapter in question discusses The Planets Suite, Gustav Holst's most famous composition.

Dr Giles Roberts (1766-1834) was a prominent physician in Bridport.  His family was part of the new merchant class and were able to give him an education; he developed an interest in science and medica botany.  By thirteen he had developed some early medicines.

The significance of this manuscript is that it contains the greater part of Thomas De Quincey’s description of William Wordsworth from his celebrated essay, published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine between January and April 1839, and later in De Quincey’s Recollections of the Lakes and

The London firm of George Jackson, founded probably in the 1760s by Thomas Jackson, was the pre-eminent supplier of decorative plasterwork in Britain through most of the 19th  and 20h centuries.

The two surveys, that of 1761 by the surveyor William Chapman, and that of 1781 by Yeakell and Gardner, show the Marden Park estate at its height, stretching from the valleys and heights of the North Downs to the area around what is now the A25.  They complement the deeds, manorial records and pa

The complete artwork for this edition of Graham Greene's much-loved story, in superb condition, comprising 35 watercolour illustrations and one pen-and-ink drawing of lettering; the watercolour dust jacket design; and a complete hand-drawn pen and ink dummy book.

38 letters and postcards from Grove to Max Friedländer, written between July 1883 (shortly after the opening of the RCM) and June 1891.

The papers reflect the political interests of the family, particularly those of  Sir Thomas, 1st Lord Dundas, who was an associate of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.  They include over 150 business letters of 1789 and 1794 and a seven page letter concerning the operation of Dundas's Gre

A book lost from the celebrated library at Sudbury Hall and now reclaimed. The library was largely assembled by the bibliophile 5th Lord Vernon. The present volume is in a contemporary pebbled calf binding, and has the Vernon bookplate.