Grants awarded in 1965

Letters contain much information about the Daniel Press and references to Gerard Manley Hopkins and the proposed publication of his poems

Second quarto edition, attributed to Shakespeare on the title pages of the 1608 and 1619 quartos. Play based on a real-life murder celebrated in pamphlet ballad and play

The binding on this book, with a posthumous portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, appears to be the earliest English trade binding designed to cover copies of a particular book

Manuscript in roll form showing acquisition of rents. Presented by Dr EG Millar. Add MS 52779

Large illuminated initial opens the document with a half length portrait of Charles I painted in colours and enclosed in a yellow baroque frame. Presented by WL Wood

For the period 1685-1683 apparently the only surviving record of the Royal Commission in charge of the rebuilding of the Cathedral. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR

Slightly imperfect vellum manuscript of 144 folios with initials in blue, containing a Latin text of the Gesta Romanorum. Bound in contemporary oak boards

Manuscripts of 45 poems, four with interesting marginal comments by TS Eliot, the original MS of his War Diary (published as From Alamein to Zem Zem) and a large number of drawings, paintings and s

Single leaf, probably a proof pull printed possibly at La Rochelle with type cast by Jrme Haultin, pasted to the first flyleaf of a volume containing three works by Daid Chambers, Lord Ormond publi

Numbers 1 - 17 of this rare Irish periodic al, containing politcal articles plus original poems, comments on contemporary literature and a regular column on the theatre

First edition of the Laws of the Island after it came into British possession in 1655, plus a short account of the Island and a map. 50 donation was given by Arthur Gimson

The Papers of Henry Strachey, secretary to Robert Lord Clive 1764-67; his correspondence with Lord Clive as governor of Madras 1798 - 1803; the papers of John Carnac , commander at Patna in 1760; t

Contain reports of cases heard in the courts in 1455/6 and 1458/9 respectively. Printed by William de Machlinia in Holborn, the first book has the only known 15th century Holborn imprint.