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Author: Maurice Rivoire
Item date: 1806
Date acquired: 2013
Grant Value: £1,000 from FNL's B. H. Breslauer Fund
Item cost: £1,000
Institution: Beckford's Tower Trust
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
This volume from the library of William Beckford (1760-1844) is bound with the distinctive Beckford Fonthill binding, which combines two motifs from Beckford’s coat of arms on the spine. Tipped in to face the title-page is a fine wash drawing of Amiens Cathedral with the pencil note below: ‘after a finished Sketch by W[illiam] B[eckford]’. Beckford was known to have been in France during 1806, the year Rivoire’s work was published, and the intriguing notation to the sketch of the building found in this volume invites speculation as to whether he visited and recorded the building using this work as a guide.
The possibility of this visit is made more significant because in 1806 Beckford was immersed in the construction of his Gothic Revival masterpiece Fonthill Abbey.
Beckford’s Tower and Museum currently has twenty-four volumes once belonging to Beckford, fourteen of which have Fonthill bindings. The acquisition of this volume adds to this small but significant element of the museum’s collection, which is displayed in cabinets originally designed by Beckford and the architect of the Tower for that purpose.
Author: Walter Scott and James Hogg
Item date: Edinburgh: printed for James Ballantyne, 1815
Date acquired: 2013
Grant Value: £3,000 from FNL's B. H. Breslauer Fund
Item cost: £4,000
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
The item was printed in Edinburgh by James Ballantyne. The full title is 'The Ettricke Garland: Being Two Excellent New Songs on the Lifting of the Banner of the House of Buccleugh at the great football match on Carterhaugh Dec. 4, 1815'. It is comprised of a poem by Scott, ‘The Lifting of the Banner’, and Hogg’s own tribute, ‘To the Ancient Banner of the House of Buccleuch’, and it is amongst the rarest of either Scott’s or Hogg’s titles.
Item date: 21st July 1794
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £1,500
Item cost: £2,500
Institution: Dr Williams's Library
Town/City: London
An unpublished letter written by Joseph Priestley, the scientist and Unitarian theologian, from Northumberland, Pennsylvania, to his close friend Theophilus Lindsey in July 1794.
Item date: 16th - 19th century
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £5,000
Institution: Wallace Collection
Town/City: London
A group of six carefully selected books.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Item date: 1930-41
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £78,250
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
These eight pocket sized engagement diaries belonging to Virginia Woolf record in brief the author’s daily appointments. They directly complement the holdings within the Monks House Papers which were given to the University of Sussex in 1972.
Author: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN
Item date: 1912
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £78,616
Institution: Scott Polar Research Institute
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
One of the last letters written by Captain Robert Falcon Scott from his final camp in Antarctica was purchased by the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Item date: 13th-19th century
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £20,000
Item cost: £755,049
Institution: Northamptonshire Archives Service
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire
The Westmorland of Apethorpe Archive is of pre-eminent regional, national and international importance. This status is confirmed both by its acceptance in lieu of tax and also by the fact that it is among the 120 estate and family archives that The National Archives considers to be the most sign
Item date: 1842-1867
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £160,000
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Captain Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827-67), Arctic explorer and artist, and the first naval officer to cross the entire North-West Passage, is a major figure in the history of Arctic exploration. In Norfolk, he is regarded as one of the county’s great heroes.
Item date: 1806
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £401
Item cost: £401
Institution: National Trust, Lyme Park
Town/City: Stockport
County: Cheshire
Letters Patent granting arms to the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Peter Legh (1753-1797). The right to arms passes to all descendants of an acknowledged ‘grantee’ in the legitimate male line but the right must be established by recording their pedigree at the College of Arms.
Item date: London, 1796
Date acquired: 2012
Grant Value: £425 from FNL's B. H. Breslauer Fund
Item cost: £850
Institution: National Trust, Cherryburn
Town/City: Stocksfield
County: Northumberland
This interesting book consists of seven didactic and moral tales, such as ‘The dangers of curiousity’,‘The little rattlehead’ and ‘Juvenile arrogance’, each illustrated with charming head- and tail-pieces: the horses frightened by a snake at the end of ‘Tale the Second: The little busy body’ are particularly attractive. The wood engravings are in the Bewick style, and have sometimes been attributed to Thomas’s brother, John Bewick, although the engraver is more likely to be another ‘follower’. Nothing is recorded of the book’s provenance, but the name ‘Miss Pridham’ (or Pudham) is written on p. 99. Only 5 other copies – 2 in the United Kingdom - are recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue.
Cherryburn in Northumberland, is the birthplace of Thomas Bewick. The Museum was established by the Thomas Bewick Birthplace Trust, and passed to the National Trust in 1991.