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Author: Desideru s Erasmus
Item date: 1535
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 6250
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Cousin was Erasmus amanuensis in Freiburg. He sent Erasmus the observations he had made on the book in 1536, but Erasmus died before they could be incorporated into following editions

Author: William Jupp and William Newton (Architects)
Item date: 1765
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 2,600
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London

The London Tavern in Bishopsgate was a City building of considerable social significance, being let regularly for balls, banquets and public meetings. It was destroyed by fire in 1765 and rebuilt by architects William Jupp and William Newton.

Author: Peter Beuzeville and family
Item date: 1784 - 1848
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 492
Institution: Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Town/City: London

As well as private correspondence of this properous silk merchant the collection includes Beuzevilles correspondence as Director and Joint Treasurer of the French Committee which was concerned from the reign of James II until Victorian times in distributing the Royal Bounty granted for the relief

Author: Jean Calvin
Item date: 1539
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 850
Item cost: 8,500
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Rare second edition, the first to develop Calvins ideas on the Trinity and with new chapters on repentance and justification by faith

Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 136,920
Institution: St Bride's Library
Town/City: City of London
County: London

Deberny et Peignot were the last major type foundry in France. They ceased trading in 1973. This is a collection of 57 books of type specimens, mainly French but also from Lund, Turin, Madrid and Copenhagen. Total purchase price given is in French francs

Author: John Wain
Item date: 1955 onwards
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh

The first papers were deposited in 1974; this group of material augments the collection considerably

Author: Thomas Alcock Beck
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 750
Institution: Armitt Museum and Library, Ambleside
Town/City: Ambleside
County: Cumbria

As well as copies of Becks letters there are many from the Booksellers Longman and Nicoll. the painter JW Carmichael and the engraver and illuminator Henry Shaw. Most of the letters relate to Becks book Annales Furnesinses, 1844

Item date: 1540 - 1940
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 32,400
Institution: Bedfordshire and Luton Archives Service
Town/City: Bedford
County: Bedfordshire

The Orelbar family of Hinwick House were active in Bedforshire affairs for 400 years, serving as justices of the peace, sheriffs and MPs

Author: Thomas Pennant
Item date: 1796
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire

Extra-illustrated with original watercolours, portraits, engravings and coats of arms all by Moses Griffiths who was employed by Pennant to illustrate his works

Author: John Keble
Item date: 1851 - 63
Date acquired: 1986
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 3,200
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

More than 200 letters, mostly addressed to Sir William Heathcote, patron of the living of Hursley, where Keble was Vicar from 1836. The letters are mostly concerned with local matters though Kebles interest in national religious and educational questions is also visible