Presentation copies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Individual copies of books or other publications, including prints, inscribed for presentation, usually by the author, sometimes presented by the publisher.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Framed presentation copy of the 'View of the New Bridge over the River Tweed at Kelso, Scotland', by William Daniell., [Circa 1802.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19964
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Rennie was one of the distinguished group of Scottish engineers whose work contributed so much to the industrial and commercial development of the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. With the exception of roads, in which he appears not to have been interested, and steam engines, which he promised Watt not to build - though he frequently constructed the accompanying machinery - there was very little in the field of engineering that lay outside the range of his activities.
This...
Dates:
[Circa 1802.]
Negative microfilm of literary works of Sir Walter Scott., 1792-[circa 1831].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.595
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Original manuscript, [1808, or before], of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.19.1.16);Original manuscript, [1824, or before], of ‘Redgauntlet’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.19.2.29);Presentation copy of Sir Walter Scott’s printed thesis on titles XXIV and XLVIII of the ‘Digest, Disputatio Juridica ... De Cadaveribus Damnatorum’ (Edinburgh, 1792), written for his admission to the Faculty of Advocates (Adv.MS.20.5.9);Page from...
Dates:
1792-[circa 1831].