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Microfilms of the ‘Earnock manuscripts’ containing correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Notebook from Perth Academy containing problems in mensuration, surveying and levelling (with examples from the North and South Inch at Perth) and gauging.
There are illustrations in pen and wash and water-colours.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
Notebooks from Perth Academy.
Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.
Original artwork by Alasdair Gray for novels and short stories.
Includes artwork for his books 'Lanark' (Canongate, 1981), 'Unlikely stories, mostly' (Canongate, 1983), '1982, Janine' (Cape, 1984) and 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985; Abacus, 1987), as well as for Carl MacDougall's 'A scent of water' (Molendinar Press, 1975).
Papers and art work of Angela Lemaire, artist and engraver.
Papers of Agnes Miller Parker.
Includes sketches, proofs, engravings for book illustrations and 560 letters, mostly concerning her engravings.
Papers of Margery Clinton, potter, containing correspondence, financial records, working papers and other related material.
Papers of Nigel Tranter.
Includes corrected manuscripts and typescripts of 24 novels, with related proofs, research notes and art-work.
Papers of Peter White including sketchbooks, specimens of commercial art-work, his illustrated diary and materials for, and the typescript of, his memoir published as "With the Jocks" (2001).
"Penson's short progress into Holland, Flanders, and France, with remarques, written by Thomas Penson, Anno Domini 1690", and account of a tour made in the second half of 1687.
Photocopy of a tour of the English Lake District and Scotland.
Text in verse with many illustrations and calligraphic embellishments.
Photostat of a contemporary copy of 'Ung livret et traicte pour entendre quel ordre et train ung prince ou chef de guerre doibt tenir pour conquester ung pays ou passer on traverser le pays des ennemys. Compose par Messire Berault Stuart', i.e., Bernard Stuart, 3rd Seigneur d'Aubigny.
The manuscript is illustrated with seven miniatures.
Plates containing 30 images of William Johnstone.
Including 20 plates used in "Twenty Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid".
Portfolio of W A Hall, apprentice cartographer at John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
Includes art, calligraphy and illustrating stages of map production.
Proofs for illustrations of Donald MacKenzie for Paul Harris, "The Rhythm of the Glass" (1977), and Garrett Anderson, "Brennan`s Book" (1977).
Proofs of and illustrations for three collections of poems of Samuel Pollock.
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).
Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.
With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.
Seven volumes of photographs, 1903-1922, and undated, of Himalayan and Alpine subjects, many concerning the 1922 Everest expedition, compiled by Professor George Ingle Finch; and the typescript, 1942-1945, with illustrations by Ronald Searle, of `Mountain Prospect` by R Scott Russell, written in Chargi Jail.
Also included is the printed book `Mountain prospect` (London, 1946), by R Scott Russell.
Sketches and proofs of illustrations by Donald MacKenzie for Garrett Anderson, "Brennan`s Book" (1977) and Paul Harris, "The Rhythm of the Glass" (1977).
Ten albums of illustrations for the Waverley Novels selected from various editions and presented on silk for an American collector.
"The Warriston Monthly".
Illustrated magazine circulating in manuscript amonst the employees of McLagan and Cumming.