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Author: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Incomplete, wanting title and a number of other leaves, but only copy known to contain cancelled leaves O7-8. Presented by FS Ferguson
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Manuscript of 170 leaves written in double column with four large illuminated initials. No other missal of a Tironian house is known to exist. Illustrated as frontispiece in AR
Author: P Chassereau
Item date: 1739
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Author: George Bickham
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 20
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Undated edition not previously in BL collection. Purchased with 20 donated by A Gimson
Author: Ronsard
Item date: 1559
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First edition, very scarce with imprint of Vincent Sartenas
Item date: 1723
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Gives proof that the Newspaper tax of 1712 was being evaded through a loophole in the law governing the quantity of paper used
Author: Raoul Le Fevre
Item date: 1492
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
One of three known copies. Part of a collection of 130 books including 60 incunables, 14 books printed by Wynkyn de Worde, a large number of 16th and 17th century books of which no other copy is recorded and 8 bindings of exceptional quality.
Author: Zachary Macaulay
Item date: 1807 - 13
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Trinity College, Cambridge
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Most of the letters contain exhortations and advice as to the boy's studies. Presented by John Ehrman
Item date: 1547-1883
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 27
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
900 documents mostly 17th and 18th centuries; valuable for the study of economic and agricultural history
Author: Peacham
Item date: 1612
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 25
Institution: National Trust, Blickling Hall
Town/City: Bllckling
County: Norfolk
The Jacobean ceiling of the library at Blickling Hall has panels taken from this emblem book