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CR Cockerell designed the Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Insitution in Oxford, the Hanover Chapel in London and the National Monument in Edinburgh. His correspondents included John Nash, Sir George Gilbert Scott, Robert Smirke, James Elmes, John Gibson and John Henning.

Collection of 800 drawings, one of the most comprehensive surviving sets of designs for any 19th century house. The evolution of the estate can be seen from initial notebook sketches to the highly detailed working drawings as Barry worked on his design for the Duke of Sutherland.

A major collection of drawings of antiquities by the Wiltshire historian Colt Hoare. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

Manuscript estate account books and deeds for the late 17th century, together with a diary for 1715 - 22. There are also letters from John Willes, to his father the bishop of Bath and Wells describing naval engagements with the French fleet off Cape Finistre and in India 1747 - 49

Court rolls, rentals, deeds, plans sales particulars and other material. The archive reflects the entire history of the Talbot familys connection with Worcestershire, throughout a period in which they were one of the countys major landlords

Extremely rare, with the leaf of preface in which Wordsworth stated that Coleridge had written Christabel for the volume. This copy has both cancel and uncancelled leaf; a genuine mistake on the part of the binder rather than a conscious preservation, as the cancel has been misbound

With MS addenda by William and Mary Wordsworth, who also wrote the introduction to the book, later published separately. In the 1810 text Wordsworth first makes the case for a National Park to be developed to help preserve the Lake District in its state of natural purity and simplicity.

A document of great importance for Yorkshire history and the study of open field systems and land division. A secular cartulary, probably drawn up for Thomas Bank of Bank Newton, c. 1433.

Archive includes multiple drafts and detailed working notes for all the published and several very interesting unpublished plays and translations; an unpublished early novel; correspondence with friends and theatre colleagues, agents and editors, files of minutes and papers for the council of the

Published by Thomas Jefferys, the large world map shows the track of Admiral Lord Ansons fleet which returned in 1743 laden with plunder from the captured Manila Galleon.