First edition, printed by Nicholas le Gras, in a plain binding. Arthur Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1666
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1783
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A military plan of Palghat fort, Malabar illustrating its capture in 1783 by Colonel William Fullarton and the Corps of Hanoverians from the Poligars of the southern peninsula. The author served with distinction in the engagement
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Commences with the marriage treaty between Charles VIII and Anne de Bretagne 1491; the bulk of the volume are Acts of Francis I 1518-1543. Presented by TS Blakeney, Add MS 50866
Item date: 1400
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: 500
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
A very early C text of the poem, written in a good vernacular gothic book hand, initial capitals in gold, rubrication in red. Bound in 19thcentury red morocco. Illustrated as Plate 1 of AR
Item date: 1689
Date acquired: 1962
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
Presented by John Ehrman together with Nathaniel Bisbie: Unity of Priesthood Necessary to the Unity of the Communion in a Church, 1692
Item date: 1475
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bound with Judiciarius ordo by the same author, also printed at Paris by the Printer of Ockam, 1476. The latter printer was not previously represented in BL collections. A good large copy with unusual fore-edge title in gold on purple and with two gold illuminated incipit initials
Item date: late 18th century
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This collection is arranged alphabetically and covers the letters A - F only. It contains letters from many literary figures of the day and love letters from his future wife Anna Francesca Stratford. Presented by TS Blakeney. Add MSS 52285, 52286
Item date: 1816
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Key was author of The Star Spangled Banner. Presented by L. McCormick-Goodhart. Add MS 51020, f 43
Item date: 1827
Date acquired: 1963
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A n autograph fair copy of a sonnet of lament for the vanished liberties of the Genoese republic Genova bella, a cui laltiera voce. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith. Add MS 51020G