Contains the entire mass of notes made for the novel together with the first typescript, heavily corrected and annotated. Add MSS 52774, 52775
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1964
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1559
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Quarto edition, one other copy known. This copy is a variant which includes the so-called Black Rubric at the end of the Communion Service
Item date: 1700
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Arthur Gimson. Only three other copies recorded
Item date: 1656
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Rare edition, two other copies only recorded in the UK; presented by Arthur Gimson
Item date: 1770
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
10 vellum pages, coat of arms emblazoned in full colour; a fine example of a legal document of the Holy Roman Empire. Presented by WL Wood
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Printed by Paulus Manutius son of Aldus, at Venice. Bound in a leaf of a late medieval religious musical manuscript. Presented by WL Wood
Item date: 1745-6
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 300
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Fine example of a mosaic binding of white calf elaborately decorated with inlays of red blue green and citron morocco. Tooled doublures of red morocco and blue silk endpapers by Jacques-Antoine Derome the Elder. Illustrated as colour frontispiece of AR
Item date: 1701 - 5
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 50
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Merchant trading voyages to India via Grand Canary, to Oporto and to Jamaica via Madeira with much interesting detail of local conditions
Item date: 1677-90
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
In a letter to Danby December 2nd 1688, Compton described the escape of Princess Anne to Nottingham
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1964
Grant Value: 400
Institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh
Acquired with 600 other books, the majority 17th century English drama. As well as the first of The White Devil, Webster is represented by firsts of The Devils law-case, and Appius and Virginia, plus first, second and third editions of The Duchess of Malfy [sic].