Grants awarded in 1942

Presented by AH Jolliffe

Unique volume - oration to Elizabeth I from the minister of St Clements, the town orator

Probably by Dance the younger, some may be by James Peacock

Second issue of the first edition

Rare second edition, only one other copy then known, at The Huntington Library

Sir Mathew Hales copy with his annotations; additional funding supplied by Geoffrey Keynes

130 photographs and 12 coloured slides plus sundry papers and manuscripts: invaluable record of Tsarkoie Selo in its heyday; illustrated as plate III of AR

Only copy then known in Britain or Portugal

Presented with 4 other items of theological interest by JE Yerbury

Presented by Mrs Shearne

9 vols in 8, mint condition, over 250 coloured engravings; illustrated at plate II of AR

Presented by Mrs Gowland

Fine copy with woodcut portrait of King Henry III

Presented by Mrs Shearne

First edition, no other copy then known in a public library in Britain; illustrated as Plate I of AR

Presented by Brigadier-General AM Tyler

2 vols presented by Rev EE Roberts

8 vols presented by the Dean and Chapter of St Albans

Bought with Silva de varios romances, 1587, Pedro de Castros Tragedia Policiana 1547, all of the utmost rarity

8 vols printed in Leipzig; presented by JG Archibald

56 volumes. Presented with 9 other works of literary interest by the Dean and Chapter of St Albans