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Author: Anon
Item date: 1485
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Printed by the first press in Brittany; first 14 leaves supplied in photocopy from the Bibliotheque Nationale. Presented by Albert Ehrman

Author: Anon
Item date: 1601
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: 125
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Has been attributed to Nicholas Breton and Gervase Markham; only 2 other copies known

Author: Antonie Cope
Item date: 1548
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: 160
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Remarkable for the fragments of early 16th century books found in the binding, many hitherto unknown, comprising Gringore: Castle of Labour 1510; Richard Pynson: The Breuyate and shorte Tragycall hystorie of the fayre Custance; The History of the Excellent Knight Generides; Erasmus: Epistle to Ch

Author: Chaucer
Item date: 1896
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: Bequeathed
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Kelmscott Press edition in the original boards; bequeathed by Miss EM Colman to the Friends

Author: Martin Luther, John Bunyan, John Calvin & others
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 75
Institution: Evangelical Library
Town/City: London

Includes Martin Luthers In Esa 1534, John Calvin Sermons 1583, Hugh Latimer 7 Sermons 1571; 23 of Bunyans works including a first edition of Hearts ease in hearts trouble; a first edition of Thomas Shepards Sound Beleever - one of the few books to be translated into American Indian; 6 works by Jo

Author: Nicolas Jarry (Calligrapher)
Item date: 1661
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Miniature calligraphic manuscript, 54 pages of fine vellum with gold borders, 3 illuminated pages; original black morocco binding with silver clasps. Illustrated as plate V of AR

Author: Daniel Purcell
Item date: 1700
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Only 1 other copy known; presented by Arthur Gimson with Songs in the new Opera calld the Island Princess, c.1700

Author: George MacDonald (Ed)
Item date: 1883
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

1 of 75 copies; presented by Simon Nowell-Smith

Author: James Wright
Item date: 1684
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented with A Literal Extension-Translation of the Doomsday Book in Relation to the Counties of Leicester and Rutland, 1864 by Miss C Tryon

Author: John Fen (Trans)
Item date: 1609
Date acquired: 1949
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Printed at Douai, a translation from the Italian of the Latin original by Raymundus de Vineis. Presented by Arthur Gimson