Proofs. Printed matter.
Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of George Algernon Fothergill concerning the history of Limekilns in Fife.
Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers of the Shortreed family of Jedburgh concerning the family's connection with Sir Walter Scott and business and family affairs of the Shortreeds themselves.
Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
Portraits, caricatures, and photographs of portraits of officers of the 51st (Highland) Division by Lieutenant Leonard J Smith.
The drawings are in pencil, and there are also a few proofs of cards and posters designed by Leonard Smith.
Printed proof of “Carle, now the King’s come!”, with corrections in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, followed by a manuscript Latin version of the song [?1822].
Printed proofs of an article by Sir Walter Scott with his autograph corrections.
Proof copy of a reprint of "Jones’s directory or, useful pocket companion, for the year 1786", interleaved and heavily annotated by John Buchanan, 'Glasguensis'.
There are some proof corrections on the title-page by James MacLehose, the publisher, and on the fly-leaf his signature and a note by his son, the donor.
Proof copy of the ‘Life of Lord Jeffrey' by Henry Cockburn, with Cockburn’s autograph corrections and additions, all of which were incorporated in the final text.
Proof-sheets, in various stages, of ‘Count Robert of Paris’ and ‘Castle dangerous’ by Sir Walter Scott, with corrections by Scott, corrections and alterations, many of them extensive, by John Gibson Lockhart and Robert Cadell, and some caustic comments by Lockhart.
The chief alteration in ‘Count Robert’ is the omission of the duel between Anna Comnena and the gravid Brenhilda. ‘Castle dangerous’, which was to have formed two volumes, is very much reshaped and the final portion in particular is reduced.
Proof-sheets of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’s edition of James Kirkton’s 'Secret and true history of the Church of Scotland'.
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott.
There is also a note by James Ballantyne (page 237).
Proofs of the first edition of ‘Quentin Durward’ by Sir Walter Scott.
The proofs correspond to volume iii, pages 1-360, of the work as published, with the corrections in MS.3404 incorporated, and some further manuscript corrections, of a minor kind, by James Ballantyne and others. There are no corrections in Sir Walter Scott's hand.
Proofs of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, with correspondence between Mackintosh MacKay and the Reverend John MacLeod of Dundonald.
'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.
Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.
The title is in the hand of David Douglas.
'Some terrible letters from Scotland communicated by The Ettrick Shepherd.’
Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.
Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).
Typescripts, manuscripts, research notes, correspondence and other papers of Duncan Fraser and of Standard Press publishers, Montrose.
Including corrected typescripts and proofs of historical and topographical works, and circa 400 letters and copies of letters.
With papers, 1928-1959, of the Standard Press, Montrose.