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This advice guide for female servants sets out rules of behaviour designed to promote their industriousness, preserve their characters and prevent any misbehaviour likely 'to result in their ending
This impressive volume was the subject of a temporary export ban by the Culture Minister in 2012.
The manuscript comprises seven pages of script, the draft of a chapter of Imogen Holst's book about her father.
The composition was inspired by Holst's holiday in Algeria in 1908. The Moorish melodies he heard on the streets poured onto the page to create a distinct sound.
A wonderful collection of glass plates and negatives (black and white and colour).
One of the last letters written by Captain Robert Falcon Scott from his final camp in Antarctica was purchased by the Scott Polar Research Institute.
A translation of Addison's play 'Cato' which was dedicated to Henry, 3rd Lord Coleraine, Henry Hare (1693-1749), lord of the manor at Bruce Castle from 1708-1749.
Since Archbishop's Abbot's death in 1633, Lambeth Palace Library has been home to most of his library, amounting to some 2,600 books and manuscripts.
The collection includes architect’s drawings of the New Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Bridport by James Wilson of Belmont, Bath, together with estimates, specifications and contracts of the bu
The series of Godmanchester manorial records at Huntingdonshire Archives is of special interest for two reasons: first because it is one of the finest and most extensive of the county (including th
The manuscripts of Reading Abbey were widely dispersed following the Dissolution, and such as have survived have gradually found their way into numerous libraries and archives scattered across the
Letters Patent granting arms to the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Peter Legh (1753-1797).
Horned Beetles is the first édition de luxe from the Gehenna Press.
Baldassare Castiglione’s Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier), is the prototype of the 'courtesy book 'and the classic picture of the ideal renaissance courtier, prince,
An unpublished letter written by Joseph Priestley, the scientist and Unitarian theologian, from Northumberland, Pennsylvania, to his close friend Theophilus Lindsey in July 1794.
The National Library of Scotland has worked since the 1950s to build an unrivalled collection of modern Scottish Literary papers. This collection of almost 100 letters from Mackay Brown to Ke
Autograph Letter, Autograph Postcard, eight Typed Letters and two Christmas cards, all signed, Hull and University of Hull, 21 April 1956 to 6 February 1985, various sizes, 13 pages (excluding the
Robert, the son of Ralph de Alderstead of Merstham in Surrey, probably assumed the surname Pashley only on his marriage to Sarah, the heiress of an estate centred on Pashley in Ticehurst, in about
Dr Giles Roberts (1766-1834) was a prominent physician in Bridport.
Dr Giles Roberts (1766-1834) was a prominent physician in Bridport. His family was part of the new merchant class, the rising middle class of its time.
A bound volume containing three relatively rare printed pamphlets of the period (listed below) and a little gem – a contemporary manuscript plan apparently showing the proposed defences of the City
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (of the 2nd creation), diplomat and Liberal politician, was a key player in mid- to late- nineteenth century diplomacy and politics.
Hamish Scott Henderson was a published poet and member of the Scottish literary renaissance of the later twentieth century, a folksong collector and promoter of the folksong revival, a cultural his
Philip Miller’s Gardener's Dictionary was one of the most popular gardening books of the 18th century.
Captain Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827-67), Arctic explorer and artist, and the first naval officer to cross the entire North-West Passage, is a major figure in the history of Arctic exploration.
This is an exceptionally rare early 11th-century charter. The Godwine Charter is a single-sheet Anglo-Saxon charter written in Old English, on parchment, in the form of a chirograph.
A group of six carefully selected books.
Superintendent William Donaldson, commanded the Dorking Police Force from its foundation in 1838 to its amalgamation into the newly formed Surrey County Constabulary in 1851. These notebooks
These eight pocket sized engagement diaries belonging to Virginia Woolf record in brief the author’s daily appointments.
The Westmorland of Apethorpe Archive is of pre-eminent regional, national and international importance. This status is confirmed both by its acceptance in lieu of tax and also by the fact tha
This interesting book consists of seven didactic and moral tales, such as ‘The dangers of curiousity’,‘The little rattlehead’ and ‘Juvenile arrogance’, each illustrated with charming head- and tail
