100 Books from the Libraries of the National Trust

Spanning the 8th to the 21st centuries, '100 Books from the Libraries of the National Trust' includes illuminated medieval manuscripts; the Trust's oldest atlas, with maps of the ancient world; a volume from Henry VIII's library; a book inscribed in blood; an Arabic manuscript on horsemanship; a very early book on swimming; the largest volume of botanical drawings ever produced; sonatas by Joseph Haydn; a library of miniature children's books; the first book in English by an Indian author; Dame Ellen Terry's annotated working copy of Shakespeare's Macbeth; the first book ever printed in Antarctica; George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize in Literature; Virginia Woolf's handwritten manuscript for her novel Orlando; and John Lennon's treasured childhood copy of Richmal Crompton's William the Gangster.