Search FNL grants since 1931

Letters written between July and October 1812 when Radcliffe, as magistrate, was active in restoring public order after the machine breaking and violent robberies of the Luddite protestors in the Huddersfield area

The only surviving example of Purcell's harpsichord music written in his own hand. Includes five previously unknown pieces by Purcell and four previously unrecorded arrangements for keyboard of his theatre music and unknown movements from his keyboard suites.

This book is the result of Dugdales ambitious programme to record as much as possible of medieval church architecture and decoration as he could before the iconoclasts of the Puritan movement could do their worst.

A series of 12 letters to Scotts London publishers, Longman and Rees, dealing in fascinating detail with matters relating to the publishing, illustrating and selling of The Lay of the Last Minstrel,1805, Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806, Marmion 1808, and The Lady of the Lake 1810.

Doggerel verses penned while Stevenson was reading for the Bar in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh; the blue paper bifolium upon which the verse translations are written bears the blindstamp of the Advocates library

Sketches in pen and brown ink, with occasional wash; several drawings are clearly trial poses and compositions, but roughly twice as many are for subjects pictures, often no more than the rough outline of a body.

80 printed volumes of Davies poetry together with a bound volume of autograph fair copies of 15 poems some of them apparently unpublished, submitted to James Guthrie for publication by the Pear Tree Press.

Only known copy of this edtion (STC 15809.5) In a contemporary blind-stamped calf binding with a panel on the front cover showing St George slaying the dragon and on the rear cover St Michael thrusting Satan into the abyss. Presented in memory of Lord Kenyon by a group of his friends

The Duc de Rohan was, after Coligny, the most admired, even heroic, of the Hugenot leaders in the struggle against the Catholic power in the French religious wars. Copied from the same source as the 1644 edition, but differing in some points from that of 1646.

These ledgers provide unique information on the development of the harp by Sbastien Erard, one of the most gifted inventors in musical history, who also devised the double escapement for the pianoforte as well as the single and double action harp.