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Displaying 1081 - 1090 of 1976
Item date: 1864 - 70
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 450
Institution: National Museums Liverpool
Town/City: Liverpool
County: Merseyside

Set of drawings for a station on the London and North Western railway, signed by various engineers. Shows the wide range of accomodation necessary for men and horses, fuel and goods

Author: William Burgess (Surveyor)
Item date: 1740
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 726
Institution: Hampshire Record Office
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire

Records the topography of the Cranbury estate in detail with decorative embellishments including surveying instruments and a full length portrait of Burgess

Item date: 1252 - 1370
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria

Produced at the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Magdalen at Lanercost, Cumberland, giving a detailed record of all the endowments from the foundation in 1165 -9.

Item date: 1777 - 79
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 220
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Contains cases dealing with trespass, non-payment of costs, theft, and disagreements relating to the smelting of tin

Item date: 1584
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 50
Item cost: 350
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

24 pages listing fields strip by strip in minute detail, providing valuable information on place names and personal names

Author: BS Johnson
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: King's College London
Town/City: London

Proof copies and first editions of his books, plus periodicals containing short stories and poems written by Johnson. Also a group of letters from Johnson to John Idris Jones, Welsh poet and publisher

Author: Tom Blackburn
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

12 books of his poems, a novel, an anthology, a libretto, a volume of criticism and the corrected typescript of his fictional autobiography A clip of steel. Presented by BC Bloomfield

Item date: 16th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These papers document the activities of one of Englands most notable families. From the early years there is the journal of George Trimmer Savile, Marquis of Halifax of his conversations with William III; 145 boxes of the correspondence of Georgiana Poyntz, wife of the first Earl.

Author: Giuseppi Remondini e figli
Item date: 1797 - 1799
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 440
Item cost: 440
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The first catalogue issued in Italy arranged according to the principles established by Joseph Strutt in his Biographical Directory of Engravers 1785 - 86. Works by contemporary painters are offered for sale and there is an emphasis on prints in newly developed techniques such as aquatint

Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 1984
Grant Value: 600
Item cost: 600
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Thomas Barlow, Bodleys Librarian 1652-60, identifield the contents of the MS on p22 and Anthony Wood wrote his name and the date 1670 at the end of the text. The original document belonged to Thomas Cole in 1670 and reached the Bodleian in 1755 in the bequest of Thomas Rawlinson