First edition, presented by Thomas Balston
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1825
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1586
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
2 other copies known; presented by George Smith together with John Winter Jones: Observations on the Division of Mans Life into Stages, 1861
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Published anonymously. Presented by Mrs Vivian Seymer together with Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India, 1865 with FNs signature and a few notes in her hand
Item date: 1607
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Wake was public orator on the occasion of a visit of James I to Oxford in 1865; this second edition not in STC. Presented by FF Madan
Item date: 16th - 18th centuries
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A microcosm of Scottish life: Religion and church government, politics, law, education, estate management, popular medicine, fencing and the Darien scheme are all represented, often in extremely scarce works. Illustrated as plate I of AR
Item date: 1587
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 50
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Unpublished MSS account of the social side of Lord Buckhursts embassy to the Low Countries by a member of his entourage, who was later to write one of the classics of Welsh prose Deffynniad Ffydd Eglwys Loegr
Item date: 1688
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Presented by Sir Eric Miller together with the papers, journals and four signal books of Edward Pakenham, 2nd baron Longford 1743-1782 plus his Nautical Improvements 1793.
Item date: 1503
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Third English edition, imperfect but important for the woodcuts not found in the 1499 edition. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Illustrated as plate III of AR
Item date: late 18th or early 19th century
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 50
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Fine examples of Arabic calligraphy, mainly prayers, enclosed in broad borders of burnished gold. Illustrated as plate IV of AR
Item date: 1649
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London
This edition is No 26, second issue, but lacks portraitand with variant frontispiece. Presented by Miss JEH Austen