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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Printed catalogue, [?1814], of Kelso Library with manuscript additions to 1826.

 File
Identifier: MS.14241
Scope and Contents

A list of the proprietors of the Library in February 1827 has been added (folio 1).

Dates: [?1814]-1827.

Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.

 File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents

The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.

Dates: [1791, or after.]

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'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2558
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1863.

Proof copy of 'Poor things', by Alasdair Gray, with a related letter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11160/1-2
Scope and Contents

A heavily annotated paperback proof of 'Poor things', donated by Alasdair Gray to Mark Fleming for auction at a Scotland in Europe fundraising event, with an accompanying letter explaining the donation.

Dates: 1992-1993.

Quintin Kennedy, "Ane Compendius Tractive", with annotations by the author.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9268 [RB.s.2950]
Scope and Contents

With manuscript copy of "De Praesentia Corporis in Sacramento Altaris".

Dates: 1558.

"Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson`s Journey to the Hebrides..." (1779) by Donald McNicol.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12511
Scope and Contents

Includes annotations possibly by former owner James McNicol.

Dates: 1779.

Richard Wharton, "Observations on the Authenticity of Bruce`s Travels" (1800), with extensive annotations by William George Browne.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8454
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1789, of James Bruce to George Robinson.

Dates: 1789, 1800.

‘Rob Roy’, a national drama based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of annotated pages from the book, interleaved with plans of scenery and stage settings, as performed at the Theatre Royal Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.23061
Scope and Contents

The play was produced on the occasion of Sir Walter Scott’s centenary under the supervision of Mr and Mrs Wyndham.

Dates: 1822-1871.

Robert Burns "Poems" (Edinburgh, 1787).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10981
Scope and Contents

With names added in manuscript by Burns.

Dates: 1787.