23 grants for 2011.
The London firm of George Jackson, founded probably in the 1760s by Thomas Jackson, was the pre-eminent supplier of decorative plasterwork in Britain through most of the 19th and 20h centurie
An album of drawings of buildings and scenes in the west Hampshire village of Wellow by an unknown artist, c. 1846.
A tin trunk of documents formerly belonging to Thomas Peel (1768-1843) of Peel Fold, Lancashire, and Penzance and Trenant Park, Duloe, in Cornwall.
The complete artwork for this edition of Graham Greene's much-loved story, in superb condition, comprising 35 watercolour illustrations and one pen-and-ink drawing of lettering; the watercolour dus
‘The Watsons’ is Jane Austen’s first extant draft of a novel in process of development, and one of the earliest examples of an English novel to survive in its formative state.
John Keats (1795-1821) wrote this passionate letter to his fiancée Frances (Fanny) Brawne (1800-1865) in March 1820, when he was housebound in Hampstead with tuberculosis, and Fanny Brawne wa
The significance of this manuscript is that it contains the greater part of Thomas De Quincey’s description of William Wordsworth from his celebrated essay, published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazi
An important and hitherto unavailable collection of letters, programmes, talks, lectures and signed presentation copies of scores, including a substantial two-way correspondence between Rubbra and
This handsome document, finely written with an elaborate scrivener's mark, is an exemplification of a decree settling a dispute between the Augustinian nuns of Easeboourne Priory and the burgess of
A hitherto unrecorded contemporary manuscript, finely bound in contemporary Dutch floral wrappers pasted onto boards with a calf backstrip. Written in three different hands, of which the two
The Gale Morant Jamaican plantation papers cover the period from the late 18th century to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 and beyond, when plantation owners were allowed to k
Mr Edward Warner writes: On the 10th August 1637, Edward King, of Christ's College, Cambridge, drowned while crossing the Irish Sea.
The papers reflect the political interests of the family, particularly those of Sir Thomas, 1st Lord Dundas, who was an associate of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. They inclu
38 letters and postcards from Grove to Max Friedländer, written between July 1883 (shortly after the opening of the RCM) and June 1891.
Letters relating to the embassy of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, at Constantinople in the first decade of the 19th century.
Seventeen boxes of papers of Alfred Wainwright, MBE, the fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.
Surveyor’s reports to the General Purposes Committee concerning the upkeep of the fabric of the local area and its drains, sewers and roads.
Gwyneth Lewis is the first National Poet of Wales. This material includes her earliest poems and writings and documents her development as a writer, up until the mid 1980s.
The celebrated Colonna Missal was commissioned by Cardinal Pompeo di Girolamo Colonna (d. 1532) for use in the Sistine Chapel. It was written and illuminated c.
The St Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving intact Western book: it is in its original binding, and it has never been restored or resewn.
A book lost from the celebrated library at Sudbury Hall and now reclaimed. The library was largely assembled by the bibliophile 5th Lord Vernon.
The two surveys, that of 1761 by the surveyor William Chapman, and that of 1781 by Yeakell and Gardner, show the Marden Park estate at its height, stretching from the valleys and heights of the Nor
