The first German translation of Plutarch's Moralia, boun din contemporary German pigskin. Presented by Mr & Mrs Albert Ehrman
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1554
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Item date: 1791
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: 100
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Printed by Bodoni in a luxury binding , almost certainly commissioned by James Edwards of Pall Mall, by Staggemeier and Welcher. Citron morocco inlaid with black and red tooled in gilt. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Item date: 1866
Date acquired: 1967
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A pamphlet dealing with the death of Bulkley Samuel Young in August 1866. Presented by TS Blakeney together with a n obituary brochure about John Doncaster Hoyland, killed in the Alps in 1934