Grants awarded in 1959

Binyon was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at BL; Sadler was Master of University College Oxford. Presented by Simon Nowell-Smith. Add MS 49997

With an important additional leaf of MS. Purchased with the aid of a contribution of 30 by John Ehrman

Presented by WL Wood. Steele no. 2441

Manuscript on parchment pp 76. Pages tabulated to show the numbers of guns and quantities of stores carried by ships of 12 different sizes. Presented by John Ehrman

Presented by TS Blakeney together with a Law Commonplace book of the late 17th to early 18th centuries mainly in the hand of William Longueville. Add MSS 50116, 50117

Acquired for the Nation together with 850 works in 2000 volumes.

Presented by ML Wood together with 6 other miscellaneous items, including a Buddhist charm printed in Japan c.764, one of the first attested record of printing with copper blocks upon paper

10 volumes containing detailed pedigrees and notes on the principal families of Shropshire. They supplement the papers of George Morris, Josephs brother acquired by the library some years earlier

Original edition 33 plates bound in contemporary Spanish calf. Delteil 224-56

Embroidered binding including the Arms of Durham Cathedral.

First and third issues of the first edition. First issue the only copy known to FF Madan who presented it to BL together with a copy of the third issue uncut with original back paper wrapper preserved

Calf binding with gold tooling and unusual stamp of the royal arms of James I not found on any other book in BL, apparently dated 1611

Presented by John Ehrman. For details see acquisition of a copy by BL 1951

The Book of Llandaff was the most valuable book of Welsh interest remaining in private hands; it was purchased together with a holograph revised translation of the Epistles to Timothy ...

Arthur Gimson contributed 80 towards the purchase of this and the following works: A Description of the Sev enteen Provinces commonly called the Low-Countries ... 1672 (Not in Wing) and French Intrigues, or the history of their delusory promises since the Pyrenaean Treaty ... 1685 (1 other copy known at Christ Church, Oxford)