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Album of drawings and prints probably collected by James Drummond
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Antiquarian album of Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson.
Contains several hundred prints and drawings.
Catalogues relating to Chinese calligraphy and art, with two mounted fan prints.
Collection of sketches, etchings, engravings, etc., chiefly by James Nasmyth, the engineer, with several by his father Alexander Nasmyth and his brother and sister Patrick and Jane, and some collected by him.
Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".
With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly relating to the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fourteen hand-coloured manuscript and printed maps and 3 diagrams of Caldor Wood, Scotland, by William Edward Scott Mutch.
Letter of Graham Stuart together with newpaper cuttings concerning him and a lithograph.
Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Oleographic print (number 185 of 500) of a portrait of John Francis Campbell of Islay by Frederick Hurlstone.
Original artwork by Alasdair Gray for novels and short stories.
Includes artwork for his books 'Lanark' (Canongate, 1981), 'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983), '1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984) and 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985; Abacus, 1987), as well as for Carl MacDougall's 'A scent of water' (Molendinar Press, 1975).
Papers and printed material relating to the literary and artistic work of Alasdair Gray.
Includes a thesis entitled "The World of 4 to 7 Years", 1960, together with printed items illustrating Gray`s work as a graphic artist and book designer.
Papers and prints from the collection of John Telfer Dunbar, costume historian.
Includes letters, 1807-1855, of William Wilson and Sons, tartan manufacturers, Bannockburn.
Papers concerning "The Naturalist`s Library", edited by Sir William Jardine.
Containing original drawings, watercolours, working proofs and prints.
Papers of and concerning Phoebe Anna Traquair, artist.
As well as Phoebe Anna Traquair's correspondence, the collection comprises mainly photographs and prints depicting her murals, enamel work, illuminations and bindings.
Papers of G S Fraser.
Includes typescripts of articles, essays, reviews and translations, many arranged in order by Fraser`s wife, Eileen, with a view to publication in collected form; also includes printed material by Fraser and correspondence concerning his work.
Photograph of a coloured print of the Battle of Jutland by Captain H M Doughty.
Photographic archive of Paul Shillabeer.
Principally concerning the Edinburgh International Festival, to which Shillabear was official photographer from 1948 to 1973, but also concerning Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland, craftsmen and artists at work and portraits.
Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.