Only known copy of the plan for the whole of the Essay on Man. One of the 1400 volumes in the collection of Harold Forster of minor verse of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection is particularly strong on anonymous satire, though there are also sentimental, didactic and legendary tales.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1734
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 40,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: 1708
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 355
Item cost: 355
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
First edition, published posthumously, engraved by H de Baussen
Item date: 1709
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented under the will of Falconer Madan, the collection of pamphlets and books he formed in order to write a bibliography of the Sacheverell affair. There are numerous variant copies of each work and pirated reprints, re-issues, re-impressions and copies with in-press corrections
Item date: 1655
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Dr de Beer with his collection of over 100 early travel books and guides from France Germany Italy and the Low Countries, as well as English works such as Jeffreys A Journal from London to Rome 1742.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 55,000
Institution: Burns Monument/ Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
Town/City: Doonside
County: Ayrshire
The letters deal with Burns's application to enter the Excise Office and his service there. The copy of Tam oShanter is one of 7 known in the poets hand, also includes copies of The whistle - a tale and Lament for James Earl of Glencairn
Item date: 1564 - 1665
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 200
Item cost: 5,775
Institution: Westminster City Library
Town/City: London
Approximately 650 wills from testators in all walks of life, bequests given in great detail
Item date: 13th century - 1795
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: $450
Institution: West Sussex Record Office
Town/City: Chichester
County: West Sussex
Important deeds relating to the now vanished village of Holts, have added interest because of their seals
Item date: 13th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1982
Grant Value: 325
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Buckinghamshire Archives
Town/City: Aylesbury
County: Buckinghamshire
112 deeds referring to small holdings of an acre or less
Item date: 1786-96
Date acquired: 1981
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,210
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
Contains over 500 entries (mostly in the hands of Romneys assistants Joseph Barker and R Williams) detailing prices charged, frame makers, dates of delivery and destination of pictures as well as interesting information about props and costumes
Item date: 1535
Date acquired: 1980
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Fine copy of the first French Protestant Bible in its original binding and with the title page and preliminary leaves often removed to delude officialdom and prevent confiscation