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A previously unrecorded drawing for the south and west elevations of the Court House. Robert Adam was Kinross County's MP 1768-74; the Court House was the major public building in his constituency, and he paid for the improvements in the south and west elevations himself.

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.

This collection of Romantic literature comprises some 1,400 books by writers of the Romantic period (1750-1850) including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. It contains many rarities, both first editions and books in their original boards.

This is the poet's own three-volume set of the first edition of his poems, with ownership signature and in its original paper boards.

This document records the appointment of William Hogarth as Sergeant-Painter to George III in 1757. It has a engraved border with a royal portrait and an ornate initial letter.

This collection of 35 letters by Bentham had been assumed to be lost. Leicester Stanhope was one of his closest friends and most trusted collaborators during the last decade of Bentham's life.