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Item date: 15-16th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £903
Item cost: £3,360
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

50 deeds and documents, 15-16th cent,, relating to Mascy property, including deeds relating to the establishment and dissolution of the Hollinfare chantry chapel, and a court roll of the manor of Glazebrook, 15th cent. The collection supplements the Mascy deeds bought with FNL help in 2008

Author: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Item date: 1800
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £8,000
Item cost: £42,100
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

An inscribed presentation copy of the second edition, containing Wordsworth's preface and a cancel rectifying the omission of fifteen lines of Wordsworth's 'Michael' from the book. Only eight copies of the second edition with the cancel are known to exist.

Author: Robert Adam and associates
Item date: 1771
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: 1000
Item cost: 6695
Institution: National Archives of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A previously unrecorded drawing for the south and west elevations of the Court House. Robert Adam was Kinross County's MP 1768-74; the Court House was the major public building in his constituency, and he paid for the improvements in the south and west elevations himself.

Author: Andrew Lumisden (1720-1801)
Item date: 1763
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £718
Item cost: £1,435
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A volume of autograph contemporary copies of letters by Andrew Lumisden, antiquary and Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, for the year 1763.

Author: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82)
Item date: 1932
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £2,050
Item cost: £4,101
Institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh

Paul Nash (1889-1946) spent more time and care on his illustrations of Sir Thomas Browne's famous work, first published in 1658, than on any other of his book projects. The present copy, no.

Item date: Early 17th century
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

This collection contains an archive of manorial records of Dullingham, near Newmarket covering the period 1630-1813 including substantial court rolls and books and minutes. Twenty deeds of the Hanger family of Little Raveley (1687-1799) was acquired at the same time.

Author: James Scott
Item date: 1826-30
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 518
Item cost: 518
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

James Scott was a minor Scottish portrait painter, born c. 1802, who arrived in London with a letter of introduction from Sir Walter Scott to Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Item date: 1956-71
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 3,356
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The Slade Bindery comprised Roger Powell (1896-1989), Peter Waters (1939-2005) and the calligrapher Sheila Waters (b. 1929). The Guard Book contains 174 pages of book cover designs, tooling patterns, leather and marbled paper samples, illustrations and original art works.

Item date: 11th century
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 4,500
Item cost: 7,000
Institution: Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library
Town/City: Canterbury
County: Kent

The bifolium, which contains readings for Holy Week, comes from a magnificant gospel lectionary which is likely to have been owned by the Cathedral in the Middle Ages and dismembered in the Reformation. Canterbury Cathedral Archives already had a bifolium from this lectionary.

Item date: 1537
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 97,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

This is the earliest surviving mathematical book in English. It consists of 144 unnumbered leaves and contains 11 woodcut illustrations of the counters used to help with calculations. It is the only known complete copy of the 1537 edition. Eight succeeding editions have survived.