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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.

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.

Notes written by Rosina Bulwer Lytton, estranged wife of Sir Edward Lytton, on 72 empty envelopes. The notes include trenchant personal commetns on a variety of subjects and persons, including her husband, 'that Ruffianly Blackguard Sir Liar Coward Bulwer Lytton'.

A lavishly illuminated Hours of the Passion, Paris, 15th cent. The manuscript is possibly a part of a Book of Hours now in the Huntington Library, San Marino.

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.

Harold Pinter's entire extant archive of playscripts and film scripts. The archive joins Pinter's correspondence in the British Library, purchased in 2006.

A previously unrecorded manuscript anti-Jacobite poem, 1747. Nothing is known of the author.

Artists' Books in limited editions.

Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 1549-52

Family and estate papers of the Stepney-Gulston Family, 16-20th cent. Includes manuscripts and diaries of Alan Stepney-Gulston, Victorian poet and novelist, and Josepha Heath-Gulston, the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Talbot Gwynne.