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Contains the only known copy of the Commonitorium, a project by Louis Ellies du Pin for the union of the Anglican and Gallican churches; other letters mention the activities of the Old Pretender in Paris

Written as a tribute to Wilfrid Meynell's two daughters Sylvia and Monica, contains stanzas omitted from published version. With 2 letters to Wilfrid Meynell about the poem

Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett with a 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia

Inscribed by RA Bathurst, Vice Chancellor of the University 1676. Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett

A Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase of this manuscript

Painted by an Italian artist; presented by TS Blakeney together with a collection of about 100 literary and political autographs of 19th and 20th centuries. Add MSS 49458, 49520

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.

Gives proof that the Newspaper tax of 1712 was being evaded through a loophole in the law governing the quantity of paper used

First edition, very scarce with imprint of Vincent Sartenas

Undated edition not previously in BL collection. Purchased with 20 donated by A Gimson