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‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
‘Antient metaphysics’ (Edinburgh, 1779-1799), volumes 1-5, by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, with manuscript annotations by Monboddo and an amanuensis.
Notes by Professor William Fraser Mitchell on the front flyleaf of MS.25253 and inside the front covers of MSS.25256-25257 state that the second hand is that of Lord Monboddo's son-in-law, Kirkpatrick Williamson Burnett.
‘Auswahl Deutscher Lieder’ (Leipzig, 1830), belonging to Professor John Stuart Blackie, with verses written by him in pencil on the flyleaves.
Author’s annotated copies of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895), and ‘The county families of the Zetland Islands’ (Berwick, 1893) by Sir Francis J Grant.
Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.
This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.
Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).
The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
‘Brema literata’ (Bremen, 1726), interleaved with manuscript corrections and additions.
‘Capitulatio…Caroli VI’ (The Hague, 1713), with manuscript notes by Johann Jacob Vitriarius.
'Catalogue of British family histories’ (London, 1935) by Theodore Radford Thomson, interleaved, with corrections and additions by the author.
Collection of mediaeval manuscripts and two printed books with manuscript notes, formerly in the possession of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.
‘Confessio Fidei’ (Cambridge, 1659), interleaved, with manuscript annotations by Hugh MacKail.
‘Consolationis Philosophiae Libri V’ by Boethius (Lugduni Batavorum, 1671); with four pages possibly from a Dutch catechism.
Copies of printed books associated with James Augustus Grant.
Copy by John Chalmer, 1732, of the 3rd edition of John Spottiswood, ‘An introduction to the knowledge of the stile of writs’.
Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.
There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.
Copy of John MacDougall Hay's poetic work ‘Their dead sons’ (London, 1918), with a presentation inscription to James McIntyre.
A covering letter to James McIntyre is inserted.
Copy of Justinian ‘Institutiones’, edited by Arnold Vinnius (Leyden, 1646), with manuscript notes by Alexander Cuningham.
Also contains notes of Lord George Douglas, to whom Alexander Cuningham was tutor.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.10.2-3).
Copy of ‘Short stories, scraps and shavings’ (London, 1934) by George Bernard Shaw, with two postcards from Shaw inserted concerning the production of the book and an insurance payment.
Copy of ‘Underwoods’ (London, 1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson, with two letters of Stevenson to Sir Herbert Maxwell, 1894, inserted.
Two other letters to Sir Herbert Maxwell dated 1916 and 1929 are also inserted.
Corrected copy of ‘Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society’ by Samuel Smiles (London, 1876), containing a letter from Edward, 1876, and one from his daughter Frances, 1877, both to the author.
The text has numerous minor corrections nearly all amending the technical Latin.