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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Frere, P. to Freshfields., 1821-1911.

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Identifier: MS.40429
Scope and Contents The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.Frere, Philip Howard.Letters, 1865, of Philip Frere to John Murray III. They concern the death of Frere’s mother, Mary (d 1864), and the copyright of the fifth volume, edited by his father, William, of the five volume work, “Original letters written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III. by various persons of rank or consequence [of the Paston family]” (1787-1789 - G.G.J. and J....
Dates: 1821-1911.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Harries to Harrison, D., 1822-1917.

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Identifier: MS.40526
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. A further correspondent has been added to the end of the sequence.Harries, Roger.Letter, 1823, of Roger Harries to John Murray II. Folios 1-2.Folio 1. Includes an excerpt of a letter, 1823, of Peter Lee to Roger Harries.Harris, Charles.Letters, 1903-1905 and 1917, of Charles Harris to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios...
Dates: 1822-1917.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of D. Appleton and Company, publishers., 1871-1924.

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Identifier: MS.40022
Scope and Contents The letters concern various publishing interests, especially the securing of the rights to publish American editions of certain Murray publications. Also mentioned are copyright, and the encouragement of links between American publishers and the International Publishers’ Association.(i) Letters of William Henry Appleton to John Murray III. Letters 1871, 1889-1890: folios 1-5.(ii) Letters of William Worthen Appleton mostly to John Murray IV,...
Dates: 1871-1924.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Nicholas and Sarah Nicolas., 1826-1856.

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Identifier: MS.40878
Scope and Contents (i) Letters of Nicholas Nicolas.The letters are to John Murray II and John Murray III. They concern various publications, not all of them published by John Murray, in which Nicholas Nicolas was involved as editor. The publications relate especially to British history, among them:“The history of the battle of Agincourt; and of the expedition of Henry the Fifth into France” (London : Johnson, Brooke Street, Holborn, 1827);“The Retrospective Review, and...
Dates: 1826-1856.