Illustrations. Layout features.
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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to pictures or diagrams that clarify or provide an example or visualization. They usually accompany a text; the term is most often used to refer to pictures in books or published journal. For works that explore a subject or are preliminary to a separate, more finalized work, use ""studies (visual works)""For paintings in manuscripts, use ""illuminations"" or ""miniatures (paintings)"" .
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Frere, P. to Freshfields., 1821-1911.
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Identifier: MS.40429
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.Frere, Philip Howard.Letters, 1865, of Philip Frere to John Murray III. They concern the death of Frere’s mother, Mary (d 1864), and the copyright of the fifth volume, edited by his father, William, of the five volume work, “Original letters written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III. by various persons of rank or consequence [of the Paston family]” (1787-1789 - G.G.J. and J....
Dates:
1821-1911.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Fancourt to Fanshawe., 1819-1916.
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Identifier: MS.40392
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Fancourt, Charles St John.Letter, ? 1854, of Charles St John Fancourt to John Murray III. Folio 1.Fancourt, St John Fancourt Michell.Letters, 1901-1902, St John Fancourt Michell Fancourt to John Murray IV. Folios 2-23.Folio 17. Illustration of ‘Reconnaissance of the unexplored Abor Country’. Sent as an enclosure of letter, 1902, of St John...
Dates:
1819-1916.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Harries to Harrison, D., 1822-1917.
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Identifier: MS.40526
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. A further correspondent has been added to the end of the sequence.Harries, Roger.Letter, 1823, of Roger Harries to John Murray II. Folios 1-2.Folio 1. Includes an excerpt of a letter, 1823, of Peter Lee to Roger Harries.Harris, Charles.Letters, 1903-1905 and 1917, of Charles Harris to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios...
Dates:
1822-1917.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of John Knapp., 1827-1844.
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Identifier: MS.40657
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1827-1844, of John Knapp to John Murray II and John Murray III. They concern the four editions of his “Journal of a naturalist”, and his earlier work “The Gramina Britannica”, self-published, which he offered to Murray for reprinting, the offer being declined. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1827-1829: folios 1-34;1831-1833: folios 35-56;1834-1836: folios 57-65;1837-1839: folios 66-82; (1)1840-1841: folios...
Dates:
1827-1844.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Nicholas and Sarah Nicolas., 1826-1856.
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Identifier: MS.40878
Scope and Contents
(i) Letters of Nicholas Nicolas.The letters are to John Murray II and John Murray III. They concern various publications, not all of them published by John Murray, in which Nicholas Nicolas was involved as editor. The publications relate especially to British history, among them:“The history of the battle of Agincourt; and of the expedition of Henry the Fifth into France” (London : Johnson, Brooke Street, Holborn, 1827);“The Retrospective Review, and...
Dates:
1826-1856.