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Item date: 1483
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 300
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Contain reports of cases heard in the courts in 1455/6 and 1458/9 respectively. Printed by William de Machlinia in Holborn, the first book has the only known 15th century Holborn imprint. Very rare: only four other copies known of the first and only three of the second book. Duff nos.

Author: John Tillison, clerk of the Works at St Paul s Cathedral 1665-1685
Item date: 1664-1683
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 2000
Institution: Guildhall Library
Town/City: London

For the period 1685-1683 apparently the only surviving record of the Royal Commission in charge of the rebuilding of the Cathedral. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Author: Robert Bridges
Item date: 1880-1929
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Worcester College
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Letters contain much information about the Daniel Press and references to Gerard Manley Hopkins and the proposed publication of his poems

Author: William Shakespeare
Item date: 1619
Date acquired: 1965
Grant Value: 150

Second quarto edition, attributed to Shakespeare on the title pages of the 1608 and 1619 quartos. Play based on a real-life murder celebrated in pamphlet ballad and play

Author: Sir Arthur Sullivan
Item date: 1881, 1889
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

These orchestral scores are of particular interest as there is no published full score of either work. Some interesting musical variants in Patience. BL had no major Sullivan scores until this acquisition. Add MSS 53777 - 53779

Item date: 1925
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Binding in the style of Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The bookwas bound at evening classes at Camberwell School of Art, Alec Vaughan being the instructor in bookbinding. Presented by Mr & Mrs Albert Ehrman

Item date: 1500
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 250
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Small devotional manuscript cotaining a Kalendar with many Scottish saints as well as Psalms, Devotions to the BVM, Seven Penitential Psalms and Vigils of the Dead. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Author: Jean Franois de La Harpe
Item date: 1780
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by WL Wood

Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Item date: late 12th century
Date acquired: 1966
Grant Value: 200
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Fine folio manuscript in double column written in an early Gothic hand with decorated large initial letters in red or blue. Bound by Hering in russia, gilt

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