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Layton Collection | Discovering World Stories and Hidden Treasures

Explore some of Layton’s objects cared for at the Museum of London. Jon Cotton, Natasha Fenner, Jackie Keily and Roy Stephenson, specialist curators who have worked closely with the collection, share their delight in the astonishing range of material of every kind from across the
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Discovering a hidden book collection – Layton’s Library film

Discover some of the treasures in Layton’s book collection in our new film commissioned with the help of the Lottery Heritage Fund. This film reveals some of history of Layton and his collection. With contributions from James Wisdom, Val Bott & James Marshall, we gain
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Layton’s Library: A Curious Collection, 22 January – 3 April 2016

The exhibition Layton’s Library: A Curious Collection will display some of the most beautiful and unusual examples of 17th and 18th century books once owned by Thomas Layton. This is an exciting opportunity to see for the first time some of the oldest volumes from
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Atlas Chinensis

Atlas Chinensis: An Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China, being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company Ogilby collaborated with Dutch publisher Jacob van
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Guy Fawkes

Guido Fawkes and his associates, engraving published by G Smeeton of St Martin’s Lane, London. Collection no 5286a This image shows the conspirators who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605. It includes not only Guy Fawkes, but also Thomas Winter, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy,
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Middlesex smallpox hospital poster

Inquiry into the proposal to acquire a Middlesex smallpox hospital, 20 September 1906. This poster has survived amongst Layton collection and may well have been part of his working papers. It symbolises the ambition of local authorities in the Victorian and Edwardian to provide public
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Auction Catalogue 21 January 1914

Auction catalogue for a sale held by Hodgson & Co in 1914, with lots including books, maps and prints from Thomas Layton’s collection.
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Auction Catalogue 26 May 1914

Auctioneer’s catalogue for a sale at Layton’s home on 26 May 1914 arranged by Allan Booth and Dampney. The lots include furnishing and household items, but also oil paintings, watercolours and some antiquities. Download the catalogue as a PDF.
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Sale Catalogue 9 June 1914

Cover of one of the sale catalogues which included objects rejected when Fred Turner, the Brentford Librarian, made his selection from Layton’s collection. Download the catalogue as a PDF.
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London Fire

Fire in London, coloured aquatint by J Bluck from an original by Rowlandson & Pugin, published 1 September 1808 at Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, London. Layton collection no 957d A strong image of a London event, showing the fire that destroyed the Albion
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