A topographical and historical survey of Switzerland and adjoining regions, unusually in duodecimo format with 1090 pages and 109 plates, many folded. No copy listed in the NUC or the Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschen Schrifttums 1700 - 1910. Total price given is in DM, not sterling
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1712
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,200
Item cost: DM 9345
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1811 - 27
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,307
Item cost: 5,200
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Gillies was an impecunious editor, minor poet and translator who lived in Edinburgh 1788 - 1858.
Item date: 1810 - 17
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 8,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Lockhart is best remembered today as the biographer of Scott and for his biting attacks on the poetry of Leigh Hunt and Keats in Blackwoods Magazine, but in his youth he was also a spirited caricaturist, papering the walls of his rooms at Oxford with sketches of his friends and foes.
Item date: 1807 - 1818
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,800
Item cost: 3,800
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Six autograph letters some of substantial length, several being addressed to his difficult step-daughter and her husband with copies of others and transcripts and drafts of replies to his relations, together with a quantity of financial and legal papers.
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: 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: 19th century
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 3,125
Item cost: 6,250
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
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.
Item date: 1661
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 250
Item cost: 500
Institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire
Bought to reunite with the rest of the Bibliotheck of Kirkwall now held at Aberdeen University Library. Bequeathed to the town of Kirkwall in 1683 by William Baikie , the 160 volumes became one of the earliest public libraries in Scotland.
Item date: 1923 - 50
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 30,000
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
Includes letters from Blanche Patch, Shaws secretary and Charlotte Shaw. In 1929 Shaw and Barry founded the Malvern festival and the correspondence contains a detailed discussion of the staging of Shaws plays.
Item date: 1935
Date acquired: 1997
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 2,200
Institution: Birmingham University
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
A four page letter in response to one sent by Flandin in April 1935 to congratulate Chamberlain on his recent budget (he was Chancellor of the Exchequer at this time).