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Author: AWN Pugin
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 18,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London

679 drawings in three albums, mostly of British subjects but some from his only trip to Italy in 1847, these are detailed sketches of the medieval buildings from which Pugin drew his own inspiration. Illustrated at p. 18 of AR

Item date: 1498
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 60,000
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, the first edition of the Missal to be printed in England. Bought with 23 other volumes: 5 Books of Hours, 3 Primers, 2 Breviaries, 2 Manuals, a Processional, a Portiforium, a Hymnal, 2Psalters, and 5 Missals

Author: William Rastell
Item date: 1561
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 500
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

This is a handy ready reckoner for converting regnal years, used for dating most legal documents, to those of the Christain calendar. Only one other copy known of this edition, at Trinity Cambridge

Author: Franchius Gaffurius
Item date: 1496
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 6,000
Item cost: 6,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Musical examples all printed from woodblocks. Bought with John Dowlands Second booke of songs or ayres of 2,4 and 5 parts, with tablature for the lute or orpherian with the violl de gamba, 1600.

Author: Robert Herrick
Item date: 1613 - 17
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 90,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The only collection of Herrick letters known, they date from the period of his study at St Johns Cambridge; most of the letters to his guardian contain ingeniously phrased requests for money

Author: Sir William Williams and Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Item date: 17th - 19th centuries
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 55,000
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Williams was Solicitor General 1687 -88 and the papers in this collection refer to the great state trials held in the 1670s and 80s: the Rye House Conspiracy, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Algernon Sidney and the Seven Bishops.

Author: Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve)
Item date: 1940s - 1970s
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 250,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Literary MSS, notebooks, correspondence with family and friends, contracts, tributes and other miscellaneous material, including the correspondence of his second wife Valda Trevlyn.

Author: John Kingst0n (father and son)
Item date: 1701 - 54
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 80
Item cost: 350
Institution: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Town/City: Chippenham
County: Wiltshire

Both men farmed at Jaggards in the parish of Corsham. Meticulous farming and housekeeping accounts with details of all building work carried out on the estate, plus some personal and family memoranda

Author: John Alexander Bryson
Item date: 1890
Date acquired: 1989
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

Drawn up by the Town Surveyor, these plans were rejected, perhaps because of the catholicty of the design - there are gothic, byzantine, italianate and regency features

Author: Strabo
Item date: 1473
Date acquired: 1990
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 16,500
Institution: National Trust, Blickling Hall
Town/City: Bllckling
County: Norfolk

Second edition of the Latin text, printed at Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Has extensive marginalia in a fine humanist hand , chiefly place names