Annotations.
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of Sir John Sinclair, "Observations on the Scottish Dialect" (London, 1782), with annotations in an unknown hand.
Copy of Sydney Goodsir Smith, "Skail Wind. Poems" (1941), with autograph emandations and additions by the author.
Copy of 'The endless adventure' (1930), by F S Oliver, with annotations of Sir George Young.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter in English, written probably in 1558, containing the statutes of Henry VIII, and of Mary and Philip, and a further statute, dated 12th of January in the first year of Elizabeth, added in another hand.
Copy of Thomas Pennant, "A Tour in Scotland" (London: Benjamin White, 1776, 4th edition), with marginalia by the author and pencil corrections by his son David.
With a letter, 1806, of Longman and Co declining to reprint the work.
Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.
Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".
Copy of William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI, Part III" (1936), with marginalia of J Dover Wilson.
Copy, with manuscript additions and corrections, of Alexander MacBain, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (first edition, Inverness, 1896).
Corrected manuscript of unpublished poem of David Scott, "British Deed or Trafalgar", with annotations by William Bell Scott.
Corrected page proofs by George Bruce of his "Today Tomorrow: Collected Poems, 1993-2000".
Corrected typescript drafts of play of Stewart Conn, "The King".
With a copy of a review of the play.
Corrected typescript of a short story of Naomi Mitchison, "The Red Fellows".
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Cuthbert Lennox and Andrew Melrose, "George Douglas Brown" (London, 1903), with annotations of R S Craig.
David Hay Fleming, "The Bread Assize in St Andrews", with author`s annotations.
`De Historicis Scotis et Politicis qui vel Scoticae Gentis historiara et politiciam et res gestas vel vitas Scotorum aut aliarum Gentium historias exterorunique res gestas enarrant`, being collections of Sir Robert Sibbald, for a bibliography.
The latest entries in the volume are dated 1700. It includes manuscript material, and there are annotations on the contents and history of some of the entries.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
Editor`s marked copies of numbers 1-20 of the magazine, "Lallans".
Emendations and additions to Morris and Le Clerc`s "Universal Dictionary", compiled by James Gordon of Aberdeen.
With observations and additions to Jeremy Collins, "Historical Dictionary", and a description of Aberdeen as an intellectual centre.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" (1981) with annotations in the hand of the author.
Manuscript annotations to the text on pages 490, 491, 538, 539 and 545 were intended by Gray to be included in new editions of the novel.
Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.
Four copies of George Combe, "An Inquiry into Natural Religion" (Edinburgh, 1853), with author`s ammedments.
Galley proofs, circa 1958, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories", with corrections by Finlay.
With printed copies of two short stories, undated, of Finlay with his annotations and corrections.