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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 a

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 Du

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.

Gwyneth Lewis is the first National Poet of Wales. This material includes her earliest poems and writings and documents her development as a writer, up until the mid 1980s.

Only 34 copies are known of the 5th (2nd illustrated) edition of 'Paradise Lost', and its acquisition completes the Milton's Cottage Trust 's collection of 17th century editions of this work. Its companion between the covers, 'Paradise Regained', 3rd edition, is also a welcome new addition to our collections. It seems to have been planned as uniform with the 1688 edition of Paradise Lost, and is often found bound with it.

The book is the third most rare printing of Milton's poem, and the interest of the present exemplar is enhanced by a presentation inscription by the editor, John Alsop, a Fellow of Christ's College. On the 10th August 1637, Edward King, of Christ's College, Cambridge, drowned while crossing the Irish Sea. Lycidas first appeared in this memorial volume of 36 poems, the outpouring of the University's grief for the life of a promising and popular scholar cut short. W. R. Parker, Milton's biographer, observed that Milton's famous pastoral elegy 'has been called, and largely accepted as, the greatest touchstone of poetic appreciation in the English language, a masterpiece of scholarship wedded to art ... [and] one of the most profoundly original poems in the language'.

John Keats (1795-1821) wrote this passionate letter  to his fiancée Frances (Fanny) Brawne (1800-1865) in March 1820, when he was housebound in Hampstead with tuberculosis, and Fanny Brawne was living in the property adjoining Wentworth Place.  The letter  movingly demonstrates the

The celebrated Colonna Missal was commissioned by Cardinal Pompeo di Girolamo Colonna (d. 1532) for use in the Sistine Chapel. It was written and illuminated c. 1532-35, and some of its decoration is contemporary with Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment over the High Altar.