Repton invented a system of showing his clients before and after effects on their parkland landscapes by means of watercolour pictures with added paper flaps or fliers which could be turned back to reveal the improvements.
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The Mostyn Owens were an Anglo Welsh family with estates on the borders of the two countries. The early papers reveal much about the survival of Welsh place and personal names in north west Shropshire.
Lavishly decorated with historiated intials, including one of the donor kneeling in prayer before the Virgin. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR
833 titles in 28 volumes. The only known set of patents from the footwear industry to be bound together as an accessible unit. A significant reseach tool for scholars at the countrys national collection of historic footwear and archive of the shoemaking industry
Both letters written by Clare to his home in Northborough, one during a visit to London, one in his asylum period, the last known from his hand. The sonnet is an early version of a published poem (which is not recorded in AR).
Manuscript verse miscellany made by a leading citizen of Lichfield, and relative of Samuel Johnson. It also includes local history of the periods 1748 - 58 and 1783, recording restoration work on the Cathedral and houses in the Cathedral Close
Many of the documents relate to the Whitelock and Freeman families who held the estate before its purchase in 1832 by Edward Mackenzie
Covering a legal text (an abridgement of the Book of Assizes) this is the earliest datable English blind-stamped gothic binding. It is from the workshop of the Scales binder, so-called for his use of a tool depicting a pair of scales.
Set of first page proofs and revisions of the first volume of the History of Scotland.
Most of the letters date from before Lloyd George became Prime Minister, and contain comments on both personal and political matters, sometimes written in haste between cabinet meetings and giving his immediate thoughts on the political problems which confronted him.