Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett with a 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia
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Item date: 1789
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bristol Public Library
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
Item date: 1677
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Oxfordshire County Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Inscribed by RA Bathurst, Vice Chancellor of the University 1676. Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett
Item date: 1403
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A Gimson gave 40 towards the purchase of this manuscript
Item date: 16th century
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1492
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 250
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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.
Item date: 1723
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Gives proof that the Newspaper tax of 1712 was being evaded through a loophole in the law governing the quantity of paper used
Item date: 1559
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First edition, very scarce with imprint of Vincent Sartenas
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 20
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Undated edition not previously in BL collection. Purchased with 20 donated by A Gimson
Item date: 1739
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by A Gimson
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 100
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Manuscript of 170 leaves written in double column with four large illuminated initials. No other missal of a Tironian house is known to exist. Illustrated as frontispiece in AR