Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was Clarenceux King of Arms, an office he claimed to have acquired 'in jest' when he resigned it in 1725.
Grant by Queen Mary I of lands in northern Flintshire to John David ap Griffyn ap Llewelen, 9 May 1554, with an initial portrait miniature of the Queen.
Probably made in Oxford, 202 leaves in oak boards, 3 large illuminated initials, 19 historiated initials many on burnished gold grounds
Painted by an Italian artist; presented by TS Blakeney together with a collection of about 100 literary and political autographs of 19th and 20th centuries. Add MSS 49458, 49520
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), poet and courtier, was one of the most influential literary figures of the Elizabethan age.
This important record of the Pre-Raphaelite artists has remained with May Gaskell’s descendants, consists of more than 200 letters dating from 1892 up to the year of Burne-Jones’s death: three albu
Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line.
Idylls of the King is one of the most famous 19th-century collaborations between a poet and a photographer and a rare and invaluable source for the stu
Dr. Sophie Forgan, Chairman of Trustees, writes:
Printed by Paulus Manutius son of Aldus, at Venice. Bound in a leaf of a late medieval religious musical manuscript. Presented by WL Wood
5 fine bindings by Miss ST Prideaux with one by Miss Yeatman, illustrated as plate III of AR
Printed at the Monastery of Monserrat, bought with Johannes Gerson: Opusculum tripartitum de praeceptis decalogi ... 1484. Illustrated as plate II of AR