The second book to be printed at Oxford.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1469
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: 1874
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
50 photographic views of Lucknow and environs with accompanying descriptions. Presented by the Hon. Mrs Desmond Cooke
Item date: 1834-38
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 400
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
Written during a journey from Midnapore in Bengal to Simla while Trower was on sick leave. Illustrated with pen and ink and water colour sketches
Item date: 1483-85
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 900
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Shows William Montacute, first Earl of Salisbury in full armour with crested helm and with his arms displayed on his surcoat and on accompanying shields and lance-pennons
Item date: 1490
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 330
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Printed at Venice by Bernardinus Benalius; first edition, no other copy known in a British library. FONL grant given in memory of Christopher A Webb
Item date: 1484
Date acquired: 1977
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
One of the rarest of the books in the Broxbourne Gift of John Ehrman, which consisted of nine incunabula, one early 16th-century German book and 14 16th-century English books.
Item date: 1543-99
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 75
Item cost: 315
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
This book, together with the Leeke Cartulary acquired with the help of FONL in 1971, form the only surviving papers of the Leeke family estate centered on Sutton Scarsdale Hall
Item date: 1802-1843
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London
44 volumes of manuscript journal, copies of 160 official documents and 13 bundles of private letters. The major part of the journals concern Nicholls four periods of service in India.
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1976
Grant Value: 300
Item cost: 2,057
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Rev John Newton, curate of Olney is best remembered today for his hymn Amazing Grace recording his dramatic conversion after a life as a slave trader. 120 letters, mostly unpublished at time of purchase; they give a vivid picture of the sources of Newtons religious belief