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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 centuries. Its commissions included major public buildings such as Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.
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. He was the son of William Peel (1745-1791), a brother of textile manufacturer Robert Peel (1750-1830) , 1st Bt. of Drayton, Staffs, 1800, MP for Tamworth 1790-1820.
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 dust jacket design; and a complete hand-drawn pen and ink dummy book.
‘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 was living in the property adjoining Wentworth Place. The letter movingly demonstrates the intensity of their relationship.
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 Magazine between January and April 1839, and later in De Quincey’s Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. It is one of few manus
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 his publishers Lengnick,1946 - 64.
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 Midhurst, relating to the maintenance of the churches of Easebourne and Midhurst, 1429.
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 who copied the twelve arias from Alcina have been identified as 'S' and 'S3' using Larsen’s identification of Handel scribes, and the copyist for the
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 keep their slaves as ‘Apprentices’.
The book is the third most rare printing of Milton's poem, and the interest of the present exemplar is enhanced by a presentation inscription by the editor, John Alsop, a Fellow of Christ's College. 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 include over 150 business letters of 1789 and 1794 and a seven page letter concerning the operation of Dundas's Grenada sugar plantation.
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. The correspondence is between Lord Elgin’s mother, the Dowager Lady Elgin, and his mother-in-law, Mrs Hamilton Nisbet, and includes the period in which Lord and Lady Elgin were in Greece. in 1802.
Seventeen boxes of papers of Alfred Wainwright, MBE, the fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, 1955-1966, consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, is the standard reference work to the fells of the English Lake District.
Only 34 copies are known of the 5th (2nd illustrated) edition of 'Paradise Lost', and its acquisition completes the Milton's Cottage Trust 's collection of 17th century editions of this work. Its companion between the covers, 'Paradise Regained', 3rd edition, is also a welcome new addition to our collections.…
Surveyor’s reports to the General Purposes Committee concerning the upkeep of the fabric of the local area and its drains, sewers and roads. The volume complements Haringey Archive's continuous run of minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1850-95
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 archive also contains material relating to Sunbathing in the Rain and correspondence over a long period.
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. 1532-35, and some of its decoration is contemporary with Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment over the High Altar.
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 present volume is in a contemporary pebbled calf binding, and has the Vernon bookplate.
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 North Downs to the area around what is now the A25. They complement the deeds, manorial records and papers relating to parliamentary elections in t
