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30 sketch books and 24 portfolios of plans elevations and miscellaneous sketches in ink watercolour and pencil. Each facet of Newalls work is represented from middle class houses to farms, churches, schools, bridges, greenhouses and tombs.

Bought with six other medieval MSS all belonging to Coughton Court Library. The collection also included Peter Lombards Commentary on the Psalms, three Books of Hours and a Sarum liturgical Manual of about 1450. Illustrated at p.18 of AR

Includes the architectural and garden plans of James Paine, Richard Woods and Capability Brown for the new castle and grounds of about 1770. The total purchase pric e is for the entire collection split between the Cornish and Wiltshire record offices

A series of manorial accounts remarkable for its continuity. There are a large number of papers relating to the priory of Tywardreath and its possessions, and plans and papers concerned with mining and the production of tin and copper in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Samuel Cockerells design, commissioned in 1813 was never executed. When the house was inherited by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus in 1827 he turned to Lewis Wyatt for an entirely new house in the Jacobethan style.

Mainly Scottish subjects with some English and one Irish; most of the prints are of outstanding quality. The English views are mainly from the early 1860s Cathedrals and Castles series. Most areas of mainland Scotland and some of the Inner Hebrides are also represented

Craig designed the New Town of Edinburgh and this rare book is his attempt to formalise the approach to the New Town across the North Bridge in a series of grand crescents and squares with provision for new public buildings

Mostly of the period 1830 - 60

Survey made for Sir Thomas Grey (d.1589) when he was in his minority following the death of his father Sir Ralph Grey in 1568.

Editorial correspondence and in-house files, augmenting the papers of Kingsley Martin which have been held at Sussex since 1969. Correspondence includes EM Forster writing about the Warsaw Ghetto, Stephen Spender on Burgess and Maclean and Harold Wilson on post-war Russia.