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Jensen Collection

553 books from the 19th to mid-20th century with a particular strength in botany and gardening, among many other subjects.

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Onions Collection

3099 books & pamphlets, plus modern facsimile editions of medieval manuscripts with a strength in English philology, including English dialects, as well as European poetry, novels, literature, and religion.

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Osborne Collection

About 200 American books and a smaller number on the French Revolution and Napoleon, plus 15 letters by eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientists and physicians.

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Five differently-colour books laid out in a row, all published by Penguin Random House and featuring their well known cover design

Selection of books from the Overton Collection

Overton Collection

Around 4,000 books published by Penguin and its related imprints from 1935-1964.

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Leighton Collection

Small collection of German and Austrian books, mostly early twentieth century, including poetry, plays, novels, essays, fairytales, folklore, art books, memoirs, and books on the theatre and opera.

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Pelli Collection

About 1225 books published in France from the 17th-20th centuries, including the writings of great, popular and minor writers.

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Pickering Collection

About 440 books published by William Pickering between 1820 and 1854 including reprints of classics and seventeenth-century Anglican religious works, plus contemporary writers of his time.

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