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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1800
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £8,000
Item cost: £42,100
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria
Item date: 1640-1875
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £10,000
Institution: Carmarthenshire Archive Service
Town/City: Carmarthen
County: Carmarthenshire
The papers are divided into eleven groups, ten of them comprising the accumulations of title deeds and other estate records of the successive families who owned the Aberglasne Estate, beginning with the Rudds, who acquired the estate from the Thomases in the 17th century.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £25,000 (£10,000 from the Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £1,250,000
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Siegfried's son George Sassoon sold many of his father's papers, some of which were acquired by Cambridge University Library; the 'Remaining Archive' of papers in his possession at his death in 2006 include a series of war diaries and notebooks, 1915-19, containing journal en
Item date: 17-18th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £46,750
Institution: Cambridgeshire Archives
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Papers mostly relating to the 17th-century Fen Drainage Project accumulated by Sir Miles Sandys, 1st Bart. (1563-1645), his son Sir Miles Sandys and the elder Sir Miles's great-nephew, Col Samuel Sandys (d.1685).
Item date: 17-19th centuries
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £87,775
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Dr Bent Juel-Jensen, a former Medical Officer to the University of Oxford, was one of the principal book collectors of his generation and a generous benefactor to the Bodleian Library, to which he made outstanding gifts of books in his lifetime.
Item date: 1819
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £700
Item cost: £1,500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
Scott's account of the rediscovery of the Scottish Regalia, which were sealed up in 1707 by order of the Treasury Commissioners, and kept in a chest in the Crown Room of Edinburgh Castle, lest the sight of them should inspire separatist sentiment.
Item date: 1903
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £3,493
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
A rare and important publication drawing attention to the close ties between the women's dress reform movements in Germany and Scotland. It is a significant addition the Museum's holdings on these movements.
Item date: 1720
Date acquired: 2009
Grant Value: £1,000
Item cost: £2,700
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library
Town/City: London
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was Clarenceux King of Arms, an office he claimed to have acquired 'in jest' when he resigned it in 1725. The Grant, signed by Anstis and Vanbrugh, is calligraphically written and finely illuminated.
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: 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.