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Author: John Vasse
Item date: 1553
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 150
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

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

Author: William Friese-Greene
Item date: 1904
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Noteable specimen of the handwriting of the pioneer of cinematography. Add MS 53816. Presented by John Ehrman

Author: Plutarch, Heinrich von Eppendorff, (Translator)
Item date: 1554
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The first German translation of Plutarch's Moralia, boun din contemporary German pigskin. Presented by Mr & Mrs Albert Ehrman

Author: D'
Item date: 1917
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

A slim volume of First World War poetry, not previously in BL . Presented by Peter Davies

Author: William Mason
Item date: 1783
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Liverpool Public Libraries, Hornby Library

Bound by Edwards of Halifax with a fore-edge painting of Chatsworth House

Author: GT Bagguley
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Keele University
Town/City: Keele
County: Staffordshire

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

Item date: 13th century, 1593
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 150
Institution: Durham Cathedral
Town/City: Durham

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.

Author: Ovid, William Caxton (Translator)
Item date: 1480
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 500
Institution: Magdalene College, Cambridge
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

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

Author: Anon
Item date: 1680
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

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

Author: Robert Dorsett, Canon of Christ Church
Item date: 1575
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 75
Institution: Christ Church, University of Oxford
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Letters detail the progress at Christ Church of Sidney's younger brother Robert and House Politics. The letters provide valuable evidence on the State of the House at this period