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Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).
The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.
Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Something leather', by Alasdair Gray, with proofs, illustrations and related correspondence.
Manuscript and typescript drafts, research materials, proofs and correspondence concerning 'The book of prefaces', by Alasdair Gray.
Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Manuscript of ‘The people of the palace’, a satirical novel by Marryat Ross Dobie, former Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Manuscripts from Perth Academy containing notes and exercises in mathematics, astronomy and physics.
All three volumes are illustrated with pen and wash diagrams and sketches.
MS.14296 is initialled ‘I M’ by the compiler (folio 91).
Papers of Nigel Tranter.
Includes corrected manuscripts and typescripts of 24 novels, with related proofs, research notes and art-work.
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).
Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.
With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.