Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Proofs printed from matter that has been composed into pages, usually after galley corrections have been made but before plates are made.
Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.20443
Scope and Contents
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Dates:
1868.
Collated proof of Ian Rankin's graphic novel 'Dark Entries'; with annotations by the author., 2009.
Item
Identifier: MS.50476
Dates:
2009.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts of 'Dark Entries', a graphic novel by Ian Rankin; with related working papers.
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Typescripts of Ian Rankin's graphic novel 'Dark Entries'.
Corrected galley and page-proofs of ‘In memoriam James Joyce’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, and related printed material., [1955, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.27023
Dates:
[1955, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Literary papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Poetry of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'Mature Art' by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Corrected galley and page proofs of the American edition of ‘The estate of poetry’ by Edwin Muir., [1962, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.19660
Dates:
[1962, or before.]
Corrected page-proofs of "A sough o' war" by Charles Murray., January-February 1917.
File
Identifier: MS.27260
Scope and Contents
The January proofs (folio 1) are incomplete.
Dates:
January-February 1917.
Corrected page proofs of 'Contemporary Scottish verse, 1959-1969', edited by Norman MacCaig and Alexander Scott., [1970, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26480
Corrected page-proofs of ‘The deevil's waltz’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [1946, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26123
Corrected page proofs, page proofs, references and notes of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, for ‘Antient metaphysics’., [1779, or after]-[1799, or before], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.24526
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Corrected page-proofs of ‘Antient metaphysics’ vi, pages 25-27 (pages 27-29 in the published edition). Followed by proofs of pages 291-296, possibly intended for volume ii, but not used. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Page-proofs of ‘Antient metaphysics’ iv, pages 1-61, 'Of the state of Man before his existence in the present state’ (Folio 10.) These do not correspond to the published edition. They contain marginal notes by one of Lord Monboddo's amanuenses, and also by...
Dates:
[1779, or after]-[1799, or before], undated.
Corrected proofs of James J Guthrie's 'These green pastures: essays in the spirit of Sussex', which was to have been issued by the Caravel Press., 1952.
File
Identifier: MS.19625
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of galley proofs, lacking the foreword (folio 1), a paste-up of page proofs, lacking some of the poems and the three last essays (folio 18), and two pen drawings (folio 60).
Dates:
1952.
Corrected proofs of the original sheet A of volume i of ‘Chronicles of the Canongate’, volume II, by Sir Walter Scott, extensively corrected, probably by James Ballantyne., 1827.
Item
Identifier: MS.23136
Correspondence and papers concerning Christopher Murray Grieve's, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', 'Selected lyrics', published by Duval and Hamilton in 1977., 1975-1977.
File
Identifier: MS.27244
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, mostly with W R Aitken and with the printers Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig of Verona (folio 1); (ii) Text and page proofs (folio 80).
Dates:
1975-1977.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Papers of the booksellers Kulgin Duval and Colin Hamilton, relating to their business dealings and friendship with Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
Correspondence, memoranda and other papers concerning the industrial experiments carried out at Culross by Archibald, Earl of Dundonald., 1782-1788.
File
Identifier: MS.5379
Scope and Contents
The papers concern the extraction of tar from coal (folio 1), and improved methods of refining salt (folio 81), and include fragments of corrected page proofs of Archibald, Earl of Dundonald's pamphlet ‘The present state of the manufacture of salt’ (folio 122).
Dates:
1782-1788.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the affairs of the Earls of Dundonald.
Early plays of Robert McLellan., 1934-1950.
File
Identifier: MS.26331
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Corrected typescript and page-proofs of ‘Jeddart Justice: a Border comedy’ (Glasgow, 1934) (folio l); (ii) Corrected typescript of 'The Flight of Graidhne: a Celtic folk-tale in one act', ?1934 (folio 25); (iii) Typescripts, ?1935 and 1950, of ‘The Changeling’ (folio 49). This was first published in ‘Scottish one-act plays’, edited J M Reid (Edinburgh, 1935).
Dates:
1934-1950.
Editorial files and papers of John Murray, publishers, regarding its educational works., 1960-1999
Series
Identifier: Acc.13328/1287-1489
Scope and Contents
This series contains over 180 individual editorial files relating to named titles published by John Murray, publishers, from their educational list, largely dating from the 1960s-1990s, with a particular emphasis on the final two decades between 1980-1999. Editorial files primarily contain editorial memoranda and proof corrections sent between editorial and production staff. In certain cases, files also include correspondence between the books’ authors and the publishers, or from third...
Dates:
1960-1999
Final proof, with corrections, of volume I of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3292
Dates:
[1756, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Page-proofs and revised page-proofs with corrections by Professor James Moor and others, of each of the two volumes of "ʻH του̑ ʻΟμήρоυ ʼΙλιάς" (Homer's 'Iliad'), printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756.
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Final proofs, with corrections, of volumes I and II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756.
Final proof, with corrections, of volume II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3293
Dates:
[1756, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Page-proofs and revised page-proofs with corrections by Professor James Moor and others, of each of the two volumes of "ʻH του̑ ʻΟμήρоυ ʼΙλιάς" (Homer's 'Iliad'), printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756.
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Final proofs, with corrections, of volumes I and II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756.
Final proofs, with corrections, of volumes I and II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3292-3293
Dates:
[1756, or before.]
Final revised page corrections of 'The fall of Kelvin Walker', by Alasdair Gray, for the Penguin edition., February 1986.
File
Identifier: Acc.8799/42
Galley proofs of ‘Gleanings by an undergraduate’ and ‘But the Earth abideth’, and page proofs of ‘The solitary way’, ‘Riddles in Scots’ and other individual poems., [1923, or before-1943, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8625
Dates:
[1923, or before-1943, or before.]
Interleaved set of page proofs of ‘A walk across Africa’ by James Augustus Grant., [1864, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.17934
Scope and Contents
There are numerous corrections by James Augustus Grant on the proofs, most of which have been incorporated into the published work; there is a proof of pages 454-457, 'Explanation of Names and Terms', which were omitted from the published work. The interleaves have been used by Grant at various dates to make corrections and additional comments.
Dates:
[1864, or before.]
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Goschen, L. to Goulburn., 1844-1959.
File
Identifier: MS.40471
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Goschen, Lucy.Letter, 1896, of Lucy Goschen to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Goschen, William Henry.Letter, 1896, of William Henry Goschen to John Murray IV. Folio 3.Goslings and Sharpe.Letter, 1861, of Goslings and Sharpe possibly to Mary Scarlett Hardcastle. Folios 4-5.Gosse, Edmund William.Letters, 1880,...
Dates:
1844-1959.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Lester to Levo., 1808-1919.
File
Identifier: MS.40692
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Lester, John William.Letter, 1846, of John William Lester to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham.Letters, 1865 and 1872, of Alfred Guy Kingham L’Estrange to John Murray III. Folios 3-6.Folio 5v. Copy of a letter, 1872, of John Murray III to Alfred Guy Kingham L’Estrange.L’Estrange, John.Letter,...
Dates:
1808-1919.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
File
Identifier: MS.14958
Scope and Contents
Includes some cuttings and proofs.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Literary papers of Nina, Countess of Minto., 1836-1880.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19457-19470
Literary papers of the poet Edith Anne Robertson (1883-1973).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26977-26984
Scope and Contents
Educated in Glasgow and Germany, in 1919 Edith Anne married James A Robertson who became Professor of Biblical Criticism at Aberdeen University. Her publications included a life of St Francis Xavier as well as poems in English and Scots.
Dates:
1915-1973, undated.