Published to mark the unveiling of a memorial tablet in Reading Abbey, this short book describes one of the most important manuscripts in the British Library – the hand-written musical notation of an early English pastoral song - ‘Sumer Is Icumen In’.

The evolution of town planning through the ancient Greek period and during the growth of the Roman empire with an appendix on archaic town planning in China.  Illustrated by plans of the towns described.  Hardback.  146 pages.  NB: This is the original 1913 edition.