Autobiography. DWs first published book, presented by Sir Eric Miller. Add MS 49062
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1940-42
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1603
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by FF Madan. With this work are bound Le Soldat Francois, 1604, Basilikon Doron in French, 1603, (Craigie 30).
Item date: 1492
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Parts II and III of five parts only. Bound by Nicolaus von Havelberg, a good example in excellent preservation of this important binders work. Presented by Mr & Mrs A Ehrman
Item date: 1678
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Very scarce. Presented by Stephen K Jones
Item date: 1788 - 92
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Sir Stanley Unwin with various numbers of other early newspapers, The Star and The Mirror of the Times 1797 - 1806
Item date: 1880
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Published anonymously, one of Bridges scarcest books. Finely bound in full crimson morocco, gilt preserving the original wrappers. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith
Item date: 1584
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: 500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Collection contains 860 single plays plus 480 bound volumes, including 37 Shakespeare quartos. The 1600 edition of The Merchant of Venice has notes by both Lewis Theobald and George Steevens, the 18th century editors of Shakespeare and their hand writing can be seen in some of the other plays.
Item date: 1646
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Presented by Professor LC Martin
Item date: 1851
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Binding made to the order of J & J Leighton by Messrs Elkington after a design by Luke Limner. Binding contains a circular metal plaque set in relief showing a proclamation of the Exhibition with names of inventors and practitioners in the useful arts. Presented by A Ehrman
Item date: 1646
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Mostly a fair copy with a number of unimportant variations from printed texts, but also containing marginal notes in Stanley's hand indicating his sources for borrowed conceits and turns of phrase. Add . MS 7514