Grants awarded in 1938

31 grants for 1938.

Archive of approx 10,000 documents

British Library

Lieven was Russian Ambassador to England; see long account in AR. Illustrated at plates II & III of AR. Add MSS 47236 - 47435

Le Follet

Victoria & Albert Museum

Presented with other Costume periodicals, some of which listed in AR; presented by Mrs F and Miss I Churchill, illustrated as plate X of AR

Manuscript of the Koran

National Library of Scotland

From the North-West Frontier of India; presented by CD Black-Hawkins

Miscellaneous Works

British Library

Printed in Paris, presented with a French piracy of Scotts The Monastery, 1838 by Major WRD Mackenzie

Prayer Book

Charterhouse School

Martin Tupper wrote a family tree on an endpaper; he was a pupil at Charterhouse; presented by Desmond Flower

Sanju rok kasen sensha

British Library

Important early Japanese colour printing, bought with 35 other Japanese woodcut books; illustrated as plates VII and VIII of AR

Sophismata

Ipswich Public Library

With inserted leaf of 13th century cursive writing detailing donations of books to the Franciscan convent of Ipswich; list reproduced in full in AR; illustrated as plate XI of AR

Works

National Library of Wales

First collected edition 1672. Presented by Miss M York

Works

National Library of Wales

Edited by Sir Edmund Gosse and presented by Philip Gosse