Items listed on this page are normally on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.
You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.
- The Vision of Piers Plowman. Cotton Vespasian B XVI ff. 62v - 63
- Philip Sidney - Arcadia. Add. MS 38892 ff. 69v - 70
- Shirburn Ballads. Add. MS 82932 ff. 187v - 188
- English Romances and Ballads. Add. MS 27879 ff. 46v - 47
- John Milton - Commonplace Book. Add. MS 36354 ff. 92v - 93
- John Dryden - The Fall of Angels. Add. MS 37158 ff. 11v - 12
- Samuel Johnson - Tour of North Wales. Add. MS 12070 ff. 10v - 11
- Jane Austen - Notebook. Add. MS 65381 ff. 16v - 17
- Jane Austen - Portable writing desk. Loan 118
- William Wordsworth - Poem of Childhood. Ashley 2265
- Robert Browning - The Ring and the Book. Add. MS 43485 folio 1
- Edward Lear - Nonsense Alphabet. Add. MS 47462 ff. 10 - 11
- William Morris - The Kelmscott Chaucer. C.42.l.12
- Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol. Add. MS 81634
- Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim. Ashley A 456 folio 8
- Isaac Rosenberg - 'In the Trenches'. Loan 103/77
- Harold Pinter - The Homecoming. Pinter Archive
- Ted Hughes - 'The Sorrows of the Deer'. Deposit 10259
- Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus. Deposit 10370
- Beryl Bainbridge - Notebook. Add. MS 83750 ff. 3v - 4
- Wendy Cope - 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'. Deposit 10668