Search FNL grants since 1931

Displaying 1311 - 1320 of 1974
Author: PG Wodehouse
Item date: 1964
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Contains the entire mass of notes made for the novel together with the first typescript, heavily corrected and annotated. Add MSS 52774, 52775

Author: William Pain
Item date: 1758
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

First edition of this important work on English architecture, presented by Arthur Gimson

Author: Richard Allestree
Item date: 1677
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A splendid example of the binding work of the Devontional Binder in red morocco with drawer-handle and sunflower tools in black and slate grey. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Author: Saint Jerome
Item date: 1500
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 90
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The Latin text with translation into French by Guy Jouvenaux, abbot of St Sulpice, Bourges. A fine copy with two large woodcuts, illustrated as plate II of AR

Item date: 1507-8
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Printed by Kerver the elder at Paris, bound in the original sheep. Presented by WL Wood together with Hans Naumann Die Holzschnitte des Meisters com Amsterdamer Kabinet zum Spiegel Menschlicher Behaltnis, 1910

Author: George Buchanan
Item date: 1582
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Montaigne was Buchanans pupil at the College de Guyenne at Bordeaux. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Author: David Livingstone
Item date: 1871
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Written from Manyema west of Lake Tanganyika to Kirk at Zanzibar

Author: John Middleton Murry
Item date: 1919
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith together with another Hogarth Press book not then owned by BL , Logan Pearsall Smiths Stories from the Old Testament. Mr Nowell-Smith also gave two books of Poetry by Sassoon Four Poems (Keynes A16) and The Redeemer (Keynes A13)

Author: Molire
Item date: 1666
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

First edition, printed by Nicholas le Gras, in a plain binding. Arthur Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase

Author: John Bunyan
Item date: 1682
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 35 14s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Fifth edition, an unrecorded piracy. Lacks B9, 10, 12