Books maps and prints Books maps and prints from the Thomas Layton from the Thomas Layton

collectioncollection

Some of these are on permanent Some of these are on permanent display at Gunnersbury Park display at Gunnersbury Park

Museum, most of the collection is Museum, most of the collection is at Hounslow Library.at Hounslow Library.

26th April 1848 entry in Layton’s diary

The 1913 court order that changed the provision of the will

The first page of Layton's will.

A page from an article entitled “Late-Celtic Urn-field at Aylesford, Kent” by John Evans, FSA from Archaeologia: miscellaneous tracts relating to Antiquity, second series volume ii, 1890 (Book 12315)

A page from Pitt River’s “Excavationsin Branborne Chase (Book 7414)”

A page from one of Turner’s handwritten stock books of the

Layton collection

Cover of catalogue for

Tuesday 9th June 1914 saleFront page of catalogue for Tuesday 9th June 1914 sale

Some of the lots for the Tuesday 9th June 1914 sale

Some of the lots for the

Friday 23rd January 1914 sale

Cary’s New Guide for Hackney Coach Fares,by J Cary (book 11250)

The New British Theatre”, (books 3272). The top two volumes of the restored picture are Pills to Purge Melancholy,vols 5 & 6 by T D’Urfey, (book 2774)

The collected volumes of “Pitt River’s Excavations in Branborne Chase” (Book 7414)

Open pages from “Britannia” by William Camden, 1610 edition, one of the first books to detail ancient monuments and Roman inscriptions in Britain (Book 6828)

A coloured plate from “Tent life in tiger land” by James Inglis, 1888 (Book 699

West entrance to the tunnel, Regent’s canal, Islington, 1822 (Print 1378)

Fire in London, by Pugin & Rowlandson 1808 (Print 957)

The Company of Undertakers, satirical print by Hogarth, published 1736 (Print 4689)

The only known picture of Layton’s House on Kew Bridge Road

Benjamin Hardy, friend and business partner of Layton

General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers, FSA, FRS, one of the ‘fathers’ of modern archaeology