Featherstone Vaults

Collection

Rare Books & Manuscripts

Early printed books, manuscripts, maps, letters and documents.

Illuminated manuscript opening in blue, gold and red, Herat, 1431–32.
Representative collection image · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public Domain

How we catalogue it

Collation is checked against standard bibliographies and reported in full. Made-up copies, supplied leaves, rebinding and washing are disclosed. A plainly described imperfect copy is preferable to a quietly perfected one.

Manuscripts · First editions · Maps

Currently catalogued02

Catalogue plates are shown blank. Featherstone Vaults photography is in production and will replace them entry by entry; no stand-in imagery is used.