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Author: St Bede
Item date: 12th century
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: 30
Institution: Durham Cathedral
Town/City: Durham

With 14th century fore edge paintings of Oswald Cuthbert & Aidan, amongst the earliest known examples of this form of decoration; illustrated as plates Ia and Ib of AR

Author: William Camden
Item date: 1600
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: 31 12s
Item cost:
Institution: Westminster Abbey
Town/City: London

Extra illustrated with 168 painted coats of arms in margins, possibly authors own copy

Author: Theophilus Gale
Item date: 1669
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Dr Williams's Library
Town/City: London

Contains rare 5th vol of 1678, presented by Mis FM Cameron

Author: William Burnaby
Item date: 1700, 1708
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

2 plays presented by FW Bateson

Author: Linnaeus, translated by Benjamin Stillingfleet
Item date: 1775
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

3rd edition, presented by Basil Soulsby

Author: Thomas Johnson
Item date: 1758
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

2 vols presented by Major V Seymer

Author: James Boswell
Item date: 1768
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Given with 79 other 18th & 19th century works by Major V Seymer

Author: Ovid, translated by Georges Lafaye
Item date: 1931
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Illustrated with original etchings by Picasso, illustrated in AR plate VIII, presented by Campbell Dodgson

Author: George, Earl of Cromarty
Item date: 1713
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Horace Walpoles copy with his bookplate; presented by Dr RW Chapman

Item date: 1766
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Michael Faraday's Bible containing his autograph & bookplate Presented to the British Library, via FNL, by TG Mathews