Possibly a proof copy of the extremely rare supressed edition, used by Halley as a working tool for his research. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 7,350
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Item date: 16th - 17th centuries
Date acquired: 1979
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 26,619
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Eleven volumes of manuscript music, including Duncan Burnetts book, a collection of 23 keyboard pieces by Scottish and English composers c.1600; Clement Matchetts book 1612, keyboard pieces containing amongst others the only known virginal piece by Willbye; Lady Jean Campbells book c.1635 of Scot
Item date: 1772 - 1885
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 576
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
The Yearly Meeting Advices of the Suffolk Society 1772-1858; a volume of minutes of meetings of the Suffolk Quarterly Meeting 1862-81 and a volume of minutes of ministers and elders of Woodbridge Monthly Meeting 1835 - 85.
Item date: 1374 - 1896
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 638
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Over 2000 items relating mainly to the Wyche family and their Norfolk estates; includes numerous bills for the services of tradesmen such as tailors, peruke makers and school masters
Item date: 1542-44
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 725
Institution: Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre
Town/City: Hereford
County: Herefordshire
Records proceedings of courts for manors formerly in the possession of Evesham Abbey, but distrained at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Item date: 17th - 20th century
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 120,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
Warwick Castle was granted to Fulke Greville in 1604; there are many court rolls of the manor and borough of Warwick; in 1642 the management of the familys considerable estates nationwide were amalgamated into a great series of account books that were continued in almost unbroken sequence into th
Item date: 1802- 1837
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 42,000
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
Amongst the collection are 31 letters dating from 1810 -12 between Mary and William Wordsworth, an early copy of the poem addressed to Sara Hutchinson by Coleridge published as Dejection: an Ode in the hand of MW and letters from Dorothy concerning the illness and death of the Wordsworths daughte
Item date: 1479
Date acquired: 1978
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Printed by William Caxton 24 March 1479. A religious treatise on the mutability of the world and the certainty of death. One of only three perfect copies known
Item date: 1435 - 1594
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 68
Item cost: 300
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Deeds from Wendron Parish and other properties in Cornwall. Also includes a letter from the Cornish antiquary William Borlase to R Gough (1768)
Item date: 1496
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, a perfect copy with a hand coloured full page woodcut on the verso of the title page of the royal arms. Only three copies known. Presented by John Ehrman. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR