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

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)

Written from Manyema west of Lake Tanganyika to Kirk at Zanzibar

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

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

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

Presented by John Ehrman together with Nathaniel Bisbie: Unity of Priesthood Necessary to the Unity of the Communion in a Church, 1692

Correspondents include WH Frere and Christopher Wordsworth

231 drawings contained in 5 of the original 15 printed covers. 103 drawings were used in the published parts and later in the complete volume, 65 are alternative drawings that remained unused, 63 were not used or described. They are by Thomas Allport, RK Greville, Rebecca Miller and others.

Includes Queen Elizabeths Letters Patent authorising the Cadiz expedition. H P Kraus gave 350 of the total grant