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A rare and important publication drawing attention to the close ties between the women's dress reform movements in Germany and Scotland. It is a significant addition the Museum's holdings on these movements.

Originally composed in 1807-8, The White Doe tells the story of the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569. The present copy is the first edition, quarto,1815, in its original boards, with annotations in the hand of Mary Wordsworth for its publication in Miscellaneous Poems, 1820.

Paul Nash (1889-1946) spent more time and care on his illustrations of Sir Thomas Browne's famous work, first published in 1658, than on any other of his book projects. The present copy, no.

A volume of autograph contemporary copies of letters by Andrew Lumisden, antiquary and Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, for the year 1763.

Stowell (1800-58) trained for the Congregational ministry at Blackburn Academy, served pastorates in North Shields and Masborough and became President of Cheshunt College in 1850. The manuscript contains 240 pages and is a substantial work of some 90,000 words.

The bifolium, which contains readings for Holy Week, comes from a magnificant gospel lectionary which is likely to have been owned by the Cathedral in the Middle Ages and dismembered in the Reformation. Canterbury Cathedral Archives already had a bifolium from this lectionary.

This collection contains an archive of manorial records of Dullingham, near Newmarket covering the period 1630-1813 including substantial court rolls and books and minutes. Twenty deeds of the Hanger family of Little Raveley (1687-1799) was acquired at the same time.

James Scott was a minor Scottish portrait painter, born c. 1802, who arrived in London with a letter of introduction from Sir Walter Scott to Sir Thomas Lawrence.

The Slade Bindery comprised Roger Powell (1896-1989), Peter Waters (1939-2005) and the calligrapher Sheila Waters (b. 1929). The Guard Book contains 174 pages of book cover designs, tooling patterns, leather and marbled paper samples, illustrations and original art works.

This is the earliest surviving mathematical book in English. It consists of 144 unnumbered leaves and contains 11 woodcut illustrations of the counters used to help with calculations. It is the only known complete copy of the 1537 edition. Eight succeeding editions have survived.