The accumulation of a lifetimes fanatical collecting. Estimated as possibly 750,000 portrait engravings, particularly strong in 18th and 19th century work; the periods in which the NPG was until this acquisition, particularly weak
Search FNL grants since 1931
Only one other copy known, at BL. Bought with The Seynge of Urynes 1562 of which only one other copy is known, at the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Noteable specimen of the handwriting of the pioneer of cinematography. Add MS 53816. Presented by John Ehrman
The first German translation of Plutarch's Moralia, boun din contemporary German pigskin. Presented by Mr & Mrs Albert Ehrman
A slim volume of First World War poetry, not previously in BL . Presented by Peter Davies
Bound by Edwards of Halifax with a fore-edge painting of Chatsworth House
Over 650 drawings designs and rubbings of book bindings, many of the works executed by TS Caley. Designs by De Sauty, Walter Crane, Wadsworth and Miss Talbot
The 13th century manuscript Bible is the only known manuscript to survive from the cell of Durham at Stamford. Written in Latin on 437 vellum leaves with numerous notes and annotations in medieval hands.
Books 1 - 9 with four coloured drawings and 272 leaves. The remaining portion (208 leaves) belonged to Samuel Pepys who left it in his will to Magdelene College in 1703. Manuscript may be in Caxton's own hand
A protest against the application to Protestant Dissenters of laws and penalties enacted in the reign of Elizabeth I and James I against Recusant Catholics and in particular the emprisonment of Francis Holcroft a Dissenting Minister, fellow of Clare College and minister at Bassingbourne