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Artwork by Cam Kennedy for the graphic novel edition of Robert Louis Stevenson`s "Kidnapped" (2007).
Includes the text for the graphic novel, by Alan Grant, a mock-up of the book, and a copy of the final published work.
Business records of A & C Black relating to the works of Sir Walter Scott.
Concerning the publication of the works of Sir Walter Scott, the copyrights of the Waverley Novels and to the Centenary celebrations of 1871 and 1932.
Copy of Felicia M F Skene "Use and Abuse", illustrated by eight tipped in watercolour views by the author`s father, James Skene, of Rubislaw.
Copy of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) by Walter Scott, with watercolour illustrations by Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown.
Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).
With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of works of Mollie Hunter.
Includes editorial correspondence, typescripts and proofs of novels, and some book jackets and illustrations.
Diary of a return trip between Edinburgh and Yokohama by Miss Madelena L Stewart.
Comprises bound notebook compiled in pencil and loose typescript with illustrations.
Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.
Drafts of Alan Bold, "A Celtic Quintet".
With proofs and litho plates.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.
Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine
Editorial correspondence and papers of Gairm magazine and of Gairm Publications.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Ian Cunningham concerning "The Nation Survey`d: the Maps of Timothy Pont" (East Linton, 2001).
Game book of Duncan Campbell of Smith Hall.
Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.
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.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, bound in the first volume of which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume.
Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).
With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".
Historical illustrations of the reigns of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI, compiled by Robert Pitcairn, and evidently intended to be printed as appendices to his Criminal Trials.
Illustrated comments on the Housing Act, 1972 (Scotland), by Lachlan M Dinwoodie.
With illustrated verses, 1975, of Dinwoodie, "The Big Bell of Bow".
Illustrated journal of a rowing holiday in England of J G Scott, Aberdeen.
Illustrated letter of James Sant.
Describing a visit to Scotland and his painting activities.
Illustrated letters of H Wilson, pseudonym Hall Tweed, to Mrs C Whalley, London.
Wilson describes life in Greenock and Glasgow.