A unique copy of the edition of 1531, embellished with fine woodcuts and initials in the style of Hans Weiditz. Bound with Luthers sermons on Genesis in the first edition
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1531
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,540
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: 1919
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
First, rare, signed issue (of two); contains poems by Sassoon, Hardy , Graves, Beerbohm and Pearsall Smith
Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 390,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Lambeth Palace Library acquired 17 volumes of the Talbot Papers in 1696, with this purchase from the College of Arms it was possible to reunite the other portion of the collection, some 15 volumes to make it once again one of the most important Tudor archives in existence
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: 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
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
Item date: 1777 - 79
Date acquired: 1983
Grant Value: 55
Item cost: 220
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
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: 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: 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: 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