Plates.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Album, containing engraved plates of fashions pasted in, and French sentences illustrating the use of parts of speech., 1776-1795.
Album containing impressions of copper plates and woodcuts belonging to the Bannatyne Club., [?1823-1861.]
The plates and woodcuts were deposited with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by the Trustees of David Laing, 1881 (see folio i).
Loose photographs of seals, some bearing numbers corresponding with those in Henry Laing, ‘Supplemental descriptive catalogue of ancient Scottish seals’ (Edinburgh, 1866), have been pasted in at the end.
Copper plate for calendar., Undated.
Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume I, bound in with which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume. , [1759, circa 1770], 1901.
Grangerized copy of 'Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume II., 1901.
Journal of a tour in Switzerland and Italy, written by M Rayner, pupil of a boys' school., 1856.
M Rayner was apparently a boy in the second of the three school parties, and the style of English and peculiarities of punctuation suggest that he was French or Swiss. The tour begins and ends at Bellerive. The journal is illustrated by a coloured plate showing the Great Seal of the Swiss Confederation and the cloaks worn by the officials of the different cantons (folio ii), by numerous postcards, and by a printed plan of the Alps (folio 49).
Journal of William Thomson, Deputy Commissary-General of Stores to the Forces, during a tour in Northern Germany, while in performance of his duties., 1813-1814.
This journal is divided into the journal proper (page 1) and 'General Observations' (page 45) on the characteristics and social conditions of the Germans immediately after the Napoleonic wars; it is illustrated by a water-colour drawing of a coastal scene (folio vii) and three printed plates showing costumes and cries of German street vendors (folios ix-xii).
Monochrome prints of plates, by Marshall Brown, entitled "But what will I do wi Tam Glen?, The Cottar’s Saturday Night, Tam O’Shanter, Ye see yon birkie ca’d 'a lord', Halloween, The Lea Rig and Auld lang syne", multiple copies in different tone, some mounted, some annotated, painted circa 1896, reproduced by Art Repro Co., undated., Circa 1896, undated.
Contains 22 items.
Oil painting on board of The Funeral of Burns, unsigned, with three monochrome prints of plates of same, reproduced by Art Repro Co., Undated.
Papers of Cecil Hopkinson, relating to Louis-Hector Berlioz, containing bibliography, correspondence and other related material., 1947-1966, undated.
Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.