Completion. Vol. VII. Plates from the remaining twenty-two MSS. (79 plates, with frontispiece and title-page, of various classes of MSS., circ. 1150 -circ. 1530.) 1918. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Illustrations from a hundred MSS. of H. Yates Thompson: 1918.
In progress. Vol. VI. Ninety plates illustrating twelve MSS. of French origin, 13th-15th centt., and five of Italian origin, 15th and 16th centt. 1916. Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Facsimiles of MSS. in his library: 13th-16th centt.: Facsimiles.
(i) Chaucer, Balade to Rosemounde (Bodl. MS. Rawl. poet. 163, f. 114). Presented by E. W. B. Nicholson, Esq., Bodley's Librarian. Geoffrey Chaucer: Balade to Rosemounde.: Facsimile of Bodl. MS. Rawl. poet. 163, f. 114.
(a) Facsimile of the conveyance of Nonsuch Park, co. Surr., by Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, to trustees; 13 Apr. 1687. The original document is in the possession of the Parish Council of Cheam, co. Surr. Presented by J. A. Pywell, Esq.
(aa) Photographs of a letter from Dr Robert Tounson, Dean of Westminster, to Sir John Isham on the death of Sir Walter Raleigh, 9 Nov. 1618, and of a copy of the last stanza of Raleigh's poem beginning, 'Nature that washt her hands in milke', together with a copy of a letter from Sir Gyles Isham...
(b) Facsimile of the original warrant for the arrest of John Bunyan; 4 Mar. 1674/5. This is apparently one of the facsimiles with seals made by van der Weyde. The original was sold at Sotheby's, 27 July 1887, lot 500, when it was acquired by W. G. Thorpe, F.S.A. (cf. his pamphlet, How I found th...
(c) Facsimiles of autograph notes by Jane Austen, including 'Plan of a novel', 'Opinions on Emma', etc. (cf. Add. MS. 41253 A, artt. 3 and 4). Presented by R. W. Chapman, Esq.
(cc) Rotographs (8) from the autograph MS. of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Iourney in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (cf. The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924-1929, p. 73). Presented by the Pierpont Morgan Library.