These two series of his work, represent Balzacs first significant attempt to impose a monumental order upon his hitherto rather random collection of publications. The Etude philosophiques is a pirated Belgian edition of 1836
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1834 - 37
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Bodleian Library, Taylor Institution
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Item date: 1722
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 573
Item cost: 2,295
Institution: Surrey History Centre
Town/City: Woking
County: Surrey
A rare glimpse of part of Walton-on-Thames pre enclosure (1802-4). As well as listing tenants, the number and variety of trees is indicated. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p. 52 of AR
Item date: 1787
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 1,500
Institution: Society of Antiquaries
Town/City: London
This previously unknown humorous drawing is one of the earliest depictions of barrow-digging known, and is unusual in concentrating on the diggers rather than the landscape. The clergyman with the pickaxe in the trench is probably a self portrait.
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 2001
Grant Value: 1,300
Item cost: 5,300
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
Rocque was a Frenchman who worked in England from 1709 and produced some of the most outstanding estate maps of the 18th century. These examples are of a very high quality; the High Ercall map includes a panorama of the village in the cartouche. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust
Item date: 1969 - 2001
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 12,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Literary papers covering a span of 30 years, including manuscript drafts of the novels The Magic Flute and Way to Go, plus many playscripts and correspondence with other Scottish writers. Grant from the Philip Larkin fund
Item date: no date
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 15,000
Item cost: 35,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A further instalment of Muriel Sparks working archive and general correspondence including letters from Christopher Fry, Gabriel Josipovici, Doris Lessing, John Updike and Gore Vidal, together with copies of Sparks outgoing letters and faxes.
Item date: 1764, 1823
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 900
Item cost: 900
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Map of Ham Place in Burwash drawn by Walter Gale, naming owners of the neighbouring land and showing house and outbuildings in considerable detail.
Item date: 1755
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 12,400
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
Manuscript with 12 ink and wash plates depicting different views of activity in the centre of the earth and a map showing the world as described in the Old Testament. The work was probably inspired by the Lisbon earhquake of 1755 which killed 60,000 people. Illustrated at p.36 of AR
Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 4,140
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
A family prayer book in its original binding with clasps and the remains of chain fastenings. Early memoranda in the book reveal the familys connection with Edmund Campion, the Jesuit executed in 1581 and with Robert Keyes, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators executed in 1605.
Item date: 1851 - 1866
Date acquired: 2002
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: 1,700
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
A fine early example of a Cricket score book on pre-printed pages made by Seacome and Pritchard, a local bookseller in Chester. The scores of approximately 100 matches are given with details of oponents played and giving insight into the class and occupations of the players