On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Associated Places: Great Britain

T. Daft & Son (Birmingham, England)

T. Daft & Son, manufacturers of metallic hot-houses and every description of horticultural buildings

approximately 1850

St. Helens (Clifton, Bristol)

Bill for school expenses for Miss Mason at St. Helens School, Clifton, Bristol

1884

Crosse & Blackwell

[1876?]

Photogram of ferns

1860s?

Nicklin & Son (Birmingham, England)

Nicklin & Son

[approximately 1817]

W. & T. Gregson (Firm)

W. & T. Gregson

[approximately 1820]

Royal Navy & Military Tournament

[approximately 1910]

When the hearts feeling burns with concealing, oh, what an anguish silent to languish

mid-19th century

The family coach

[1851]

Charles Miller's habit and gown-warehouse, at the Crown and Cushion, in Tavistock-Street

[1748]]

Reece & Co. (London, England)

[Billhead of Reece & Co. for supplies bought by the Medical Botanical Society]

1838-1839

Bedford Lemere & Co.

Intérieurs anglais

circa 1900

Cowley, Charlotte

The ladies history of England

1780 [i.e. 1781]

In Disgraceful Memory of the Russian Navy, in their terrible encounter with nine unarmed fishing smacks

[1904]

Brown, Hannah (Bookbinder)

Butterflies

made in 2011

Apolla Quadrille Party

[approximately 1860?]

Bush, Tracey

British butterflies

[2004]

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

Packet of embossed gilt paper ornaments

1810?

Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853

Sketchbooks

1826-1851

In loving memory of Frederick Charles

1911

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 184-?]

Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people

[approximately 1850]

Pigot, James, 1769–1843

J. Pigot, engraver, and copper plate printer

[between 1810 and 1821]

Great Britain. Admiralty

Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesties fleet

[approximately 1711]

The Chinese sensitive leaf

[185-?]

Universal building-blocks box =

[late 19th century?]

For the information of travellers passing through the Turnpike Gates at Strood, and on the New Road, near Rochester

May 1792

Angelo, Henry, 1780–1852

Angelo's infantry sword exercise

Octr. 1, 1816

T'is happiness we have in view, and mine is in possessing you

mid-19th century

The repository of arts, literature, fashions, &c

[1809-1829]

Notebook of recipes and taxidermic instructions

1830-1834

Specimens of sea weed

circa 1840?

Hogan, Eileen, 1946–

The poetry box

[2003]

Mr. Ingham, general dealer, Sheffield

[approximately 1840?]

Parkinson, W. (William), 1871–1927

Westminster Abbey fund

1920

Dales, T. T

Panoramacopia

1824

Character of forest trees

circa 1817

H.R.H Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton on the occasion of their engagement, 16th November 2010

2010

Tax bill for William Hanham, Cranleigh, Surrey, August 27th, 1843

1843

Twelve prints of sea engagements

[between 1771 and 1785]

Lynch, Richard, -1781

Will of Patrick Lynch

1781

Till the boys come home

1914 or 1915

Souvenir greeting card

[approximately 1890]

J. Smithson, dealer in every description of watches, jewellery, plated goods &c.

[1850?]

Visit of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen to the City of Liverpool

1886

Basebé, Charles Jones, approximately 1818–1880

The cabinet

[1841?]

I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well

mid-19th century

We must be united!

mid-19th century

Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

The Funeral procession of Arthur, Duke of Wellington

[1853]

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

Prize medal of the Exhibition

1851

Simpson's-in-the-Strand

Simpson's in-the-Strand, Grand Divan Tavern

1960

Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England

[1851]

Davison, Alexander

Descriptive catalogue of the series of pictures,

1807

The particulars and inventories of the estates of the sub-governor, deputy governor, and directors of the South-sea company

1721

Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds

1830s?

Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Britain at home to the world

1951

Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of Elizabeth Anne, Dowager Lady Dormer

1883

Dexter, Thomas E.

Animal and vegetable substances used in the arts and manufactures, illustrative of the imports and exports of Great Britain & her colonies, and explanatory of Dexter's cabinet of objects

1857

Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863

Myriorama

[1824]

London & North Western Railway

[1897?]

Letters of administration of William Morgan

1781

Many happy returns of the day

[approximately 1880]

Cotterell, J. H. (Jacob Henry), -1868

The paths of life

[circa 1840]

The wonders of the world

[ca. 1843]

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852

The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture

1841

Harrow School

1931

Barrett, B., Mr., active 1847

Bill for school expenses for F. Blanchard at B. Barrett's boarding school, Great Yarmouth

1847

To the diletanti [sic] and lovers of the fine arts

[1830]

Wood, Charles H., fl. 1840–1870

[Engraved shell depicting the Great Eastern steamship]

[ca. 1859]

Osborn, Joseph (Draper)

[Billhead recording cloth purchases from Joseph Osborn, linen and woollen draper, Dunstable]

[approximately 1850?]

Lindley, John, 1799–1865

Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London

1848

Specimens of articles in common use

between 1840 and 1860?

Perring, John

Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London

between 1834-1845

The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter

[1800?]

Happy may they birthday be

[1880?]

In loving memory of Emily Clifford, dearly beloved wife of George Clifford

1905

In affectionate remembrance of Isabella, the beloved wife of James Clark, of Camerton

1898

In affectionate remembrance of John Farres, who died November 5th, 1885

1885

Dilnot, John

[Set of three postcards made to accompany "Estate : a book of collected drawings."]

1991

Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Microcosm, or, A picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain : in a series of above six hundred groups of small figures for the embellishment of landscape ... : the whole accurately drawn from nature, and etched

1808