Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library: Shakespeare and contemporaries

The items listed on this page are currently on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.

You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check out opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.

• William Scott: Modell of Poesy, c. 1598 - 1600 Add. MS 81083 (six folios - unfoliated)
• Shakespeare: Richard III Huth 47
• Ben Johnson: The Masque of Queens, 1609 Royal MS 18 A xlv (ff. 2v - 3)
• Sketch of 'New Place', Shakespeare's home, by George Vertue, 1737 Add. MS 70438 (page 18 - 19)
• Shakespeare's Blackfriars mortgage-deed, 11th March 1613 Egerton MS 1787
• Shakespeare: Sonnets, open at sonnet 116, London 1609 G.11181
• Shakespeare: First Folio, title page. 1603 G.11631 (pictured above) more...