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Author: William Glass
Item date: 1831
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: not recorded
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Family Bible of the British settlement on Tristan da Cunha

Author: Wilfred Owen
Item date: c.1911 -1918
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Practically the whole surviving manuscript of Owen's verse; the first purchase of a modern author's work by The Friends. Illustrated as plate IV in AR. Add MSS 43720, 43721.

Author: Sir John Paston & other family members
Item date: 15th century
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: 1600
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

155 letters, being the earliest part of the family archive now mostly at BL. Illustrated in plates II and III of AR. Add MSS 43488 - 43491

Item date: 4th century
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: 2150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Illustrated as Plate I of AR; one of the worlds oldest surviving Bibles, may have been made for the Emperor Constantine; described in separate pamphlet issued with AR. Add MS 43725

Author: Edward Lear (?)
Item date: not known
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

No date or publisher known, in style of Lear, presented by the Misses Martelli, illustrated as plate VI in AR

Author: William Durand, Bishop of Mende
Item date: 1494
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by RA Kirby

Author: Origen
Item date: 1522
Date acquired: 1933
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

2 vols printed in Paris in contemporary English binding; presented by RA Kirby, illustrated as plate VII in AR

Author: Paul Chevreux & Jules Vernier
Item date: 1911
Date acquired: 1934
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Portfolio of facsimiles of medieval charters in the archives of Rouen; presented by LC Loyd

Author: Robert Crowley
Item date: 1550
Date acquired: 1934
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Satirical verses, one other copy known, at Cambridge UL; presented by WA Marsden, illustrated as plate II of AR

Author: John Thurloe and Charles Fleetwood
Item date: 1655-9
Date acquired: 1934
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by the Marquess of Lansdowne. Add MS 43724