Galley proofs of the first and part of the second chapter of Palgrave's History of England (1831), with manuscript revisions and a draft of a history of England under the Anglo-Saxons.
"... a more ambitious work [than Strutt's The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England, and Horda-angel-cynnan], with fewer engravings, intended as a work of reference rather than a narrative history.
The great historical romance by Sir Walter Scott giving reality to twelfth-century England. The story of the disinherited Knight Ivanhoe and the fair Lady Rowena.