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Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Proofs printed from matter that has been composed into pages, usually after galley corrections have been made but before plates are made.

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents

The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.

Dates: 1868.

Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.

 File
Identifier: MS.14958
Scope and Contents

Includes some cuttings and proofs.

Dates: Early 20th century.

Literary papers of the poet Edith Anne Robertson (1883-1973).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26977-26984
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1915-1973, undated.

Manuscript and page-proofs of parts of ‘Better dead’, Sir James Matthew Barrie's first book, published at his own expense in November 1887.

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Identifier: MS.6647
Scope and Contents

Manuscript of chapter I (folios 1-11) and page-proofs of chapter I and part of chapter II (folios 12-19 verso). There are considerable differences between the texts of the manuscript and the proof, the latter being generally condensed. There are two corrections in the page-proof (folio 15 verso) which are incorporated into the final text.

Dates: [1887, or before.]

Microfilm of page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.832
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand, [1822, or before] (MS.3402);

Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand, [1822, or before; 1823, or before.] (MS.3403).

Dates: [1822, or before; 1823, or before.]

Page-proofs of ‘Cleg Kelly’ by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, as it appeared in the ‘Cornhill magazine’, July 1895-March 1896, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.

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Identifier: MS.9988
Scope and Contents

The proofs represent a subsequent and almost final revision of the manuscript (see MS.6517).

Dates: [1896, or after.]

Page proofs of the first editions of novels or portions of novels of Sir Walter Scott with extensive corrections and additions in Scott's hand.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3401-3404
Scope and Contents There are also many comments by James Ballantyne, pointing out mistakes or raising questions, in consequence of which Walter Scott frequently alters the text.The quantities of text contained in these proofs are indicated in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts by reference to pages of the volumes of the first editions.At the beginning of MS.3401 is inserted part of the catalogue of the 1868 sale of Cadell's collection of Scott manuscripts, at which all...
Dates: [1819, or before-1823, or before.]

Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17929-17948

Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26036-26103
Scope and Contents

James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).

Dates: 1915-1979.