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
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
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Unpublished MSS account of the social side of Lord Buckhursts embassy to the Low Countries by a member of his entourage, who was later to write one of the classics of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
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 50
Institution: London School of Economics
Town/City: London
Laski was lecturer and later professor at LSE 1920 - 1950; he collected works on the history of political thought from pamphlets of the Civil war period to socialist periodicals of the 19th century including the rare Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Marx
Item date: 1326
Date acquired: 1954
Grant Value: 17 10s
Institution: Borough of Winchelsea
Town/City: Winchelsea
County: East Sussex
A Grant by Geoffrey atte Pyrye to John son of William Long of Winchelsea of rents in the parish of St Thomas. 3 fine and perfect seals one of which is the borough seal. Illustrated as plate V of AR