Published anonymously, one of Bridges scarcest books. Finely bound in full crimson morocco, gilt preserving the original wrappers. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1880
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1715-22
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
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
Item date: 1891
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Harris Public Library
Town/City: Preston
County: Lancashire
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
Item date: 1789
Date acquired: 1956
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bristol Public Library
Town/City: Bristol
County: Avon
Presented by Group-Captain Arthur B Burdett with a 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia
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