Artists' Books in limited editions.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1987-1994
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: US$15,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1557-60
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £25,000
Institution: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office
Town/City: Berwick-upon-Tweed
County: Northumberland
Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 1549-52
Item date: 16th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £3,250
Item cost: £20,000
Institution: Carmarthenshire Archive Service
Town/City: Carmarthen
County: Carmarthenshire
Family and estate papers of the Stepney-Gulston Family, 16-20th cent. Includes manuscripts and diaries of Alan Stepney-Gulston, Victorian poet and novelist, and Josepha Heath-Gulston, the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Talbot Gwynne.
Item date: 1787
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £300
Item cost: $950
Institution: Chepstow Museum
Town/City: Chepstow
County: Monmouthshire
A justification by Valentine Morris (1727-89) of his conduct during his unsuccessful defence of St Vincent, which was captured by the French in 1779.
Item date: 13-17th cent.
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £2,750
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Estate papers of the Pigot Family of Somerford Radnor, 13-17th cent. The Pigots were a leading Cheshire family, and the archive records their connections with other prominent local families such as the Downes of Somerford and the Throstles of Macclesfield.
Item date: 1839
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £863
Item cost: £1,725
Institution: Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Seven pen and ink architectural drawings for the new Penzance Union Workhouse in Madron, 1839, with detailed notes on dimensions, fittings and furniture. Signed by G. G. Scott and W(illiam) B(onython) Moffatt , with whom Scott was in partnership, 1838-45, at 20 Spring Gardens, London.
Item date: Late 17th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,900
Item cost: £3,880
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
The accounts ledger of William Hodgkinson of Overton Hall, Ashover, lead merchant, c. 1668-1700. A record of great rarity, whose export was delayed by the Reviewing Committee on the export of Works of Art to enable its purchase by a British institution.
Item date: 1536
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 2,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
An extremely rare account of the campaign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V against the corsair Khair al-Din, better known as Banbarossa, written throughout in clumsy ottava rima. The book was probably printed and published at Naples soon after Charless triumphal entry into the city
Item date: 1708
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,125
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A very rare and early contribution to the subject of determining longitude, written by an Englishman resident in Hamburg, but printed, as far as it is known, only in this German translation, which is accompanied by an original English poem and a previously unrecorded world map.
Item date: 1745 - 46
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 21,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Copes own assemblage of evidence to be used in his defence at the Board of Enquiry which met to investigate the disastrous engagement with the Jacobite army at Prestonpans, of which he had been the General Officer commanding.