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Illustrations. Layout features.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to pictures or diagrams that clarify or provide an example or visualization. They usually accompany a text; the term is most often used to refer to pictures in books or published journal. For works that explore a subject or are preliminary to a separate, more finalized work, use ""studies (visual works)""For paintings in manuscripts, use ""illuminations"" or ""miniatures (paintings)"" .

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.

 File
Identifier: MS.3830
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 17th century.

Notebooks from Perth Academy.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14292-14293
Scope and Contents

Presented, 1975, by Mrs Isobel Stirling, Edinburgh.



Dates: 1828

Original artwork by Alasdair Gray for novels and short stories.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10191/1-39
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1983, undated.

Papers of Agnes Miller Parker.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11238
Scope and Contents

Includes sketches, proofs, engravings for book illustrations and 560 letters, mostly concerning her engravings.

Dates: 1913-1972 and undated.

Papers of Canongate Press.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11197

Papers of Nigel Tranter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11170/1-81
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected manuscripts and typescripts of 24 novels, with related proofs, research notes and art-work.

Dates: 1957-1993 and undated.

"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.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3003
Scope and Contents The places described in most detail are Rotterdam, Delft, Leyden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, Lille, Paris, and Versailles. Thomas Penson describes monuments and other sights, sometimes very fully (e.g., the museum of the Academy at Leyden), institutions, ceremonies, the life of the people, and his personal experiences and difficulties as a traveller.The book, which appears to have been written only for distribution in manuscript, is decorated with illustrations and other...
Dates: 1690.

Photocopy of a tour of the English Lake District and Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8139
Scope and Contents

Text in verse with many illustrations and calligraphic embellishments.

Dates: 1857.

Plates containing 30 images of William Johnstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7423
Scope and Contents

Including 20 plates used in "Twenty Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid".

Dates: circa 1977.

Portfolio of W A Hall, apprentice cartographer at John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11281
Scope and Contents

Includes art, calligraphy and illustrating stages of map production.

Dates: 1938-1946.

Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).

 File
Identifier: Acc.10356
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1856-1919 and undated.

"The Warriston Monthly".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9241
Scope and Contents

Illustrated magazine circulating in manuscript amonst the employees of McLagan and Cumming.

Dates: 1897.