Manuscript journals of a journey to Vienna in 1851 and a journey to Palermo in 1868. The former includes autograph letters from Herbert Minton, Coles travelling companion as well as maps, ephemera, bills and receipts.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,125
Item cost: 6,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Item date: 1352
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 700
Item cost: 1,410
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London
An official record of the parliament held at Westminster between 13th January and about 11th February 1352. It is independent of the main formal parliament roll, held at PRO (ref C65/15), but apparently in an official Chancery hand.
Item date: 1773
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 2,625
Item cost: 10,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
One of only two multi-volume works known to have been bound by Scott, arguably the finest bookbinder ever to have worked in Scotland.
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 17,500
Item cost: 210,000
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
Together with the usual rentals, accounts and plans for the familys estates, there are diaries and correspondence of family members.
Item date: 1548
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 7,500
Institution: Royal Agricultural College
Town/City: Cirencester
County: Gloucestershire
Bound with Fitzherberts Surveyinge, 1546 nad A Treatise of householde, 1534, a translation of Xenophons Oeconomicus by Gentian Hervet. The three works, each complementing the other, singly represent almost the earliest printed texts on agriculture and land management in the English language.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
The archive includes early diaries, manuscripts of his own writings, constituency papers and correspondence, papers, reports and accounts for his printing and publishing business, notes and working papers; letters from readers of his books and articles and appointment books and personal correspon
Item date: 19th - 20th centuries
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,550
Item cost: 1,550
Institution: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
69 items representing the working library of the Birmingham industrial designer Reginald E Edgcombe, who was principal designer for Osler and Farraday, ranging from design theory, to practical handbooks and visual reference material.
Item date: 1819
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 2,808
Item cost: 2,808
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Canova writes thanking Westmacott for the news that one of his sculptures has arrived safely in England and that it has met with the approval of the Prince Regent; this was probably the Naiade, now in the Royal Collection.
Item date: 1840 - 70
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 9,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Most of the collection is devoted to WH Rogers designs for publishers cloth bindings, with proof covers and proof engravings of titlepages.
Item date: 1852 - 53
Date acquired: 1998
Grant Value: 1,792
Item cost: 3,528
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Sketches dating from a time when the two brothers were collaborating on some pictures. The fateful holiday in Scotland when Ruskins portrait was started and Millais relationship with Effie Ruskin began is recorded b y William in a sketch entitled Crossing the Border.