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
Search FNL grants since 1931
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
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
Item date: 1470
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Printed at Cologne by Ulrich Zel. Presented by CA Webb
Item date: 1893
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bound by Miss ST Prideaux in 1902 in gold-tooled morocco. Presented by Mrs Marian Webb
Item date: 1690
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 120
Item cost: 286
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
The book is entitled Poems, Epitaphs, Acrosticks and Elogies on several Occasions and Persons ... It contains verses of local interest and family arms
Item date: 1798-1800
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: Sussex Archaeological Society
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
363 watercolour drawings by the historian and antiquarian who was Keeper of Records in the Tower of London
Item date: late 13th or early 14th century
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: Not recorded
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
An account in Anglo-Norman verse of the life and miracles of St Edmund, King of the East Angles; the original poem was written in the 12th century, this is one of only two copies known.
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: not recorded
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
360 salt prints, a unique set of views of British keybuildings in Lucknow and Delhi, many portraits of civilians, soldiers and their families, Indian princes and others living in Lucknow at the time of the Mutiny
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1975
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 2,860
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Limpus received many full and revealing letters from Admirals de Roebeck and Wemyss while he was Admiral Superintendent at Malta