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The three items purchased are the minute book of the Forncett St.

The Red Book contains four watercolour sketches with overlays, a ground plan of the estate and drawings for a proposed dairy in the Gothic style, as well as a commentary by Repton on his proposals.

The strength of this collection of modern illustrated books is in wood-engraved books of the 1920s to 1940s. Illustrators include Blair Hughes-Stanton, John Nash, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious. The Gregynog Press and Trianon Press are represented in the collection.

This is the manuscript of one of Holst's best-loved songs. The arrangement is scored for voice, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two horns and strings

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), composer, was also one of the most significant poets of the First World War. The Sketch-Book dates from before 1914 and contains previously unknown early pieces.

The Macclesfield Psalter is a work of art of exceptional beauty. Its 250 leaves are painted with exquisite finesse, page after page of precious pigments and gold.

Manuscript roll of seven vellum membranes, England c,1340, containing both the earliest surviving English ordinary of arms, with 589 painted shields, and the oldest roll of arms for Scotland on the dorse. The latter, apparently copied c.

The map of Toulston, near Tadcaster, adds to the records of the Fairfax family which are held by the Record Office.

The photographic archive of Aerofilms, one of the largest aerial photographic companies in the world. It documents the changing face of Britian from the 1920s to the present day, and provides an invaluable record of British urban and rural landscapes, buildings and archaeological sites.

A small group of design archives of the metal working firm of Francis Skidmore (1817-96) and Son, makers of the Hereford Screen, now in the V&A, and many artefacts, notably to accompany the building and restoration work of George Gilbert Scott.