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Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.
Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.
Sketch, 1831, by David Roberts of his design for a new drop scene for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
With a letter, 1863, of Roberts to a Mrs Jones.
Sketch and description, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, of an alleged "antiquity" from the Trinity College Church, Edinburgh.
The drawing was presented as a joke by Sharpe to David Laing.
Sketch by Colonel Mikailovitch, commander of the artillery of the Second Serbian Army, illustrating the disposition of guns and troops for an attack on the Bulgarian front.
The attack took place at 0535 on 15 September 1918 and was the first break-through on the Bulgarian front.
The sketch was made for the information of the 4.7 inch gun section of the 84th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, British Army.
Sketch of C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Sketch of the farm of Aldie, 1853. Copied by Charles Gordon, 1867.
Sketchbook of Christopher Norton, business partner of James Byres, 1764-1765.
Includes a note and copy-letterbook of Norton, 1788-1794.
Sketchbook of `Pencil sketches to commemorate my journey to Scotland in the summer and autumn of 1846.`
Sketchbooks and commonplace books of the Grant family of Kilgraston.
Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (1950).
Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (London: Jonathan Cape, 1950), bound in an album with 4 letters, 1949-1950, of Andrew Young and an undated commentary on the work by Joan Hassall.
Sketches and proofs of illustrations by Donald MacKenzie for Garrett Anderson, "Brennan`s Book" (1977) and Paul Harris, "The Rhythm of the Glass" (1977).
Sketches by Gwen Meacham (Wendy Wood) illustrating life on shipboard from South Africa, and later, as Mrs W. R. Cuthbert, illustrating army life during her husband`s (Lieut. Walter R. Cuthbert) Royal Field Artillery training.
Sketches, drawings, and designs for bookplates, letter heads and illustrations by Walter Reid.
Sketches of Chinese scenes, chiefly in pencil, by Walter George Dickson, Doctor of Medicine, Edinburgh (died 1894), for many years a medical practitioner in Canton, author of ‘Japan' and 'Gleanings from Japan’.
Sketches of Edinburgh and environs by the Rev William Paget.
Includes sketches illustrating the great fire of Edinburgh in November 1824.
Sketches of Scottish scenery, chiefly in pencil, by Jean Goldie of Summerhill, author of ‘Familiar recollections and national progress’.
Information about the artist was supplied by the donors. Contains 74 sketches mounted on sheets containing one to four sketches.
Sketches, plans, photographs and parts of set models of Pamela Howard`s production designs for "Border Warfare", "John Brown`s Body" and "Wicked Old Man" by John McGrath.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.
Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.
There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.
Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.
Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.
Two English medical manuscripts of the 12th century (each with later additions), bound together probably in the medieval period; the second at least belonged to a monk of Peterborough.
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.