Illustrations. Layout features.
Found in 167 Collections and/or Records:
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).
Manuscripts of illustrated books and travel journals of Doris Ann Goodchild.
Marked proof engraving, "River scenery on the West Coast" : an illustration for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone., ? 1856-? 1857.
The proof has been annotated by David Livingstone and by John Murray III. The engraving was taken from a sketch by Captain Henry Need.
The illustration was included in "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", facing page 332.
Marked proof engraving, "Scene at a sleeping-place in Angola" : an illustration for "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa" by David Livingstone., ? 1856-? 1857.
The proof has been annotated by David Livingstone and by John Murray III. The engraving was made from a sketch by Captain Henry Need.
The illustration was included in "Missionary travels and researches in South Africa", facing page 380.
Material for a household dictionary in Spanish and English, compiled by Ruthven Todd and Anne McGuire., 1963-1965, undated.
Microfilm of grangerized copy of 'Reliques of Robert Burns' by R H Cromek, 4th edition, (London, 1817), with correspondence of Cadell and Davies, James Currie, John McCreery, Gilbert Burns, R H Cromek, William Roscoe, and others., [1805-1819.]
Microfilm of heraldic material.
Microfilm of manuscript of 'Regole della fortificatione' by Giulio Savorgnano, with many illustrations.
Microfilms of the ‘Earnock manuscripts’ containing correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Minute book covering general and special meetings of the Edinburgh Skating Club and latterly giving some seasonal reports., 1784-1888.
A few newspaper cuttings and menus for Club Dinners have been pasted in to the minute book (folios 1-96). Additional material includes occasional verses, further menus and illustrations, and an Appendix listing the membership between 1778-1939 (folios 103-107), Directions for the Club Officer (folios 109-110), an Inventory of Club property (folios 111-112), Directions for the Watchmen, (folios 112-113), and Club Rules (folio 114).
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Miscellaneous papers concerning David Livingstone., 1863-1982.
Miscellaneous papers of Florence Marian McNeill including testimonials, newspaper cuttings about contemporary women authors, and other material., 1899-1961, undated.
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Miscellaneous small items of John Francis Campbell., 1857-1883, and undated.
Miscellaneous volume containing book-illustrations, photographs of bindings, press- and magazine-cuttings, and photographs of Phoebe Anna Traquair and her work, with family photographs., [1890-1948.]
As well as Phoebe Anna Traquair's correspondence, the collection comprises mainly photographs and prints depicting her murals, enamel work, illuminations and bindings.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on arithmetic, book-keeping, trigonometry and navigation., 1828.
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing material on geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, fortification and geography., 1828.
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Notebook from Perth Academy containing problems in mensuration, surveying and levelling (with examples from the North and South Inch at Perth) and gauging.
There are illustrations in pen and wash and water-colours.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
Notebooks from Perth Academy.
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Notebooks of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill relating to Orkney, with illustrated accounts of Orcadian history and geography., 1833-1838.
Notes for ‘The other traveller’ by Nancy Brysson Morrison., 1954-1955.
Several postcards and illustrations of hotels and scenery in the Highlands have been inserted.
'On Monograms' by John Sliegh, criticizing John E Hodgkin, 'Monograms'., Late 19th century.
The volume contains monograms devised by John Sliegh, postcards written by him, 1871-1874, a notice of him by Miss Hipkins (folio iii), and sketches of him by John A Hipkins (folio 11).
Orders regarding naval signals by flag, gun, light, bell, drum, and musket, supplementary to those given in general printed sailing and fighting instructions., 1760-1761.
A printed book with blank spaces for the insertion of the signals ordered by a particular command. Copy issued by Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, to the Honourable Charles Napier, commanding H M S Cygnet, 1760-1761, with the blanks filled up in manuscript, manuscript instructions pasted in, and coloured illustrations in the margin.
Original drawings by Alasdair Gray.
Includes artwork for his novels and collections of short stories.