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Author: Anthony Trollope
Item date: 1876
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: 150
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

400 quarto pages; Sadleir describes it as the most characteristic and desirable of all his manuscripts. Illustrated as plate II of AR. Add MSS 42856

Author: Abraham Cowley, Joseph Beaumont & others
Item date: 1875-80
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Christ's College
Town/City: Christchurch
County: Dorset

Presented by TG Mathews, reprint of 16th & 17th century writers

Author: Anon
Item date: 1400-1450
Date acquired: 1932
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Important manuscript liturgical work said to have belonged to Catherine Parr; illustrated at plate IV of AR. Add MS 43380

Author: Anon
Item date: 1707
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

Presented together with 6 other miscellaneous 17th and 18th century books listed in full in AR, by Major V Seymer

Author: Thomas Pennant
Item date: 1768
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by Major V Seymer

Author: Linnaeus; Robert John Thornton & others
Item date: 1798-1810
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Natural History Museum
Town/City: London

Full listing in AR; presented by Basil Soulsby

Author: Anon
Item date: 1817
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Early periodical, presented by HD Ziman

Author: St Bernard of Clairvaux; St Gregory & others
Item date: 1275-1300
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 16,250
Item cost: 99,500
Institution: York Minster Archives
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire

Probably made in Oxford, 202 leaves in oak boards, 3 large illuminated initials, 19 historiated initials many on burnished gold grounds

Author: Thomas De Quincey
Item date: 1785-1859
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 13,000
Institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

Papers that supplement the whole of De Quinceys biography; includes letters from John Wilson, Charles Lloyd plus fragments of the MS of Autographic Sketches

Author: Bill Naughton
Item date: 1910-92
Date acquired: 2000
Grant Value: 20,525
Item cost: 80,000
Institution: Bolton Museum and Archives Service
Town/City: Bolton
County: Lancashire

Archive of notes & drafts of books, plays for television & radio, plus a journal contained in 400 notebooks, with photographs. Grant from Philip Larkin fund