Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter).
Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Collated proof of Ian Rankin's graphic novel 'Dark Entries'; with annotations by the author., 2009.
This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, novels, short stories, and other creative works by Ian Rankin. With these are papers relating to Rankin’s interactions with his publishers and agents, including administrative papers and other evidence of the process of publication, particularly editorial engagement.
Corrected galley and page-proofs of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, and related printed material., [1955, or before.]
Corrected galley and page proofs of the American edition of ‘The estate of poetry’ by Edwin Muir., [1962, or before.]
Corrected page-proofs of "A sough o' war" by Charles Murray., January-February 1917.
The January proofs (folio 1) are incomplete.
Corrected page proofs of 'Contemporary Scottish verse, 1959-1969', edited by Norman MacCaig and Alexander Scott., [1970, or before.]
The comedy was first produced by the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, in 1954, and later broadcast and televised.
Corrected page-proofs of ‘The deevil's waltz’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [1946, or before.]
Most of Sydney Goodsir Smith's poems in Scots were published in literary periodicals and in several small volumes of his poetry. His 'Collected poems, 1941-1975' (London, 1975), contains a selection of his work and not the whole corpus.
Corrected page proofs, page proofs, references and notes of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, for ‘Antient metaphysics’., [1779, or after]-[1799, or before], undated.
Corrected proofs of James J Guthrie's 'These green pastures: essays in the spirit of Sussex', which was to have been issued by the Caravel Press., 1952.
The contents consist of galley proofs, lacking the foreword (folio 1), a paste-up of page proofs, lacking some of the poems and the three last essays (folio 18), and two pen drawings (folio 60).
Corrected proofs of the original sheet A of volume i of ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, volume II, by Sir Walter Scott, extensively corrected, probably by James Ballantyne., 1827.
Correspondence and papers concerning Christopher Murray Grieve's, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', 'Selected lyrics', published by Duval and Hamilton in 1977., 1975-1977.
The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, mostly with W R Aitken and with the printers Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig of Verona (folio 1); (ii) Text and page proofs (folio 80).
Correspondence, memoranda and other papers concerning the industrial experiments carried out at Culross by Archibald, Earl of Dundonald., 1782-1788.
The papers concern the extraction of tar from coal (folio 1), and improved methods of refining salt (folio 81), and include fragments of corrected page proofs of Archibald, Earl of Dundonald's pamphlet ‘The present state of the manufacture of salt’ (folio 122).
Early plays of Robert McLellan., 1934-1950.
The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected typescript and page-proofs of ‘Jeddart Justice: a Border comedy’ (Glasgow, 1934) (folio l); (ii) Corrected typescript of 'The Flight of Graidhne: a Celtic folk-tale in one act', ?1934 (folio 25); (iii) Typescripts, ?1935 and 1950, of ‘The Changeling’ (folio 49). This was first published in ‘Scottish one-act plays’, edited J M Reid (Edinburgh, 1935).
Editorial files and papers of John Murray, publishers, regarding its educational works., 1960-1999
Final proof, with corrections, of volume I of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Final proof, with corrections, of volume II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Final proofs, with corrections, of volumes I and II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Final revised page corrections of 'The fall of Kelvin Walker', by Alasdair Gray, for the Penguin edition., February 1986.
Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of novels, short stories, and poems.
Galley proofs of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ and ‘But the Earth abideth’, and page proofs of ‘The solitary way’, ‘Riddles in Scots’ and other individual poems., [1923, or before-1943, or before.]
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Interleaved set of page proofs of ‘A walk across Africa’ by James Augustus Grant., [1864, or before.]
There are numerous corrections by James Augustus Grant on the proofs, most of which have been incorporated into the published work; there is a proof of pages 454-457, 'Explanation of Names and Terms', which were omitted from the published work. The interleaves have been used by Grant at various dates to make corrections and additional comments.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Goschen, L. to Goulburn., 1844-1959.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Lester to Levo., 1808-1919.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
Includes some cuttings and proofs.
Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto., 1836-1880.
Literary papers of the poet Edith Anne Robertson (1883-1973).
Educated in Glasgow and Germany, in 1919 Edith Anne married James A Robertson who became Professor of Biblical Criticism at Aberdeen University. Her publications included a life of St Francis Xavier as well as poems in English and Scots.