Proofs. Printed matter.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to trial sheets of printed matter that are checked against original manuscripts and on which errors can be corrected and alterations made.
Found in 414 Collections and/or Records:
First corrected proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke, with many stylistic changes by the author and by John Hill Burton, the editor of the work., [1863, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.4873
Scope and Contents
Manuscript pages in John Hanning Speke's hand and a letter of James A Grant have been inserted (folios 102, 184-186, 278-279).
Leaves corresponding to pages 7-17 of the published work are lacking.
Dates:
[1863, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscript and proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke.
First proofs of parts of ‘Count Robert of Paris’ and ’Castle dangerous’ by Sir Walter Scott, with a very few minor corrections., [1832, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.3780
Scope and Contents
Preceded by a guide to the order of the proofs in MSS.3776-3780.
Dates:
[1832, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Proof-sheets, in various stages, of ‘Count Robert of Paris’ and ‘Castle dangerous’ by Sir Walter Scott, with corrections by Scott, corrections and alterations, many of them extensive, by John Gibson Lockhart and Robert Cadell, and some caustic comments by Lockhart.
'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
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Identifier: MS.509
Scope and Contents
The proofs of the suppressed dissertations (pages 201 bis-240 bis) are included in addition to the four on 'The Natural History of Religion', 'Of the Passions', 'Of Tragedy', and 'Of the Standard of Taste'.
A slip affixed to the fly-leaf has the following in David Hume’s handwriting: 'This Book is to be considered a Manuscript and to deliverd [sic] to Mr. Strahan according to my Will'.
Dates:
1757.
Fragmentary manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of ‘The company I've kept’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’., [1966, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.27046
Scope and Contents
The papers include draft lists of contents (folio 1), an unpublished introduction (folio 5), the text of most of chapter 7, apparently intended as an article entitled 'Ezra Pound and the Curse of Usury' (folio 13), pages of a notebook on 'A.E.', the author George William Russell (folio 25), a corrected typescript of chapters 1-4 (folio 41), and proofs of the preliminary pages (folio 205).
Dates:
[1966, 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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Prose works of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Books of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The company I've kept’ by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’.
‘Gaelic Proverbs, Adages, Maxims & Common Sayings, with an English translation & explanatory notes. To which is added, A Specimen of a Gaelic Calendar', by James McIntyre, schoolmaster in Glasgow.
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Identifier: MS.1832
Scope and Contents
The author died in January 1835, when the work was about to be published. At the end are printed proofs of part of the preface and selections in manuscript from the proverbs given before. At the beginning is a note on McIntyre's life and work.
Dates:
[1835, or before.]
Galley and page proofs of bibliography of Giuseppe Verde, by Cecil Hopkinson., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9732/48-49
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Cecil Hopkinson, containing bibliographies relating to Louis-Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi, and other related material.
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Papers of Cecil Hopkinson, relating to bibliography of Giuseppe Verdi, containing correspondence, notes, photocopies and other related material.
Galley proof of 'The Vision of Judgment', by Lord Byron under the pseudonym 'Quevedo Redivivus'., ? 1822.
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Identifier: MS.43397
Scope and Contents
‘Vision of Judgment’ by Byron was published by John Hunt in 1822. Byron had written the poem in 1821 and previously offered the poem to John Murray [II], who refused to publish it.
There are here two folios of galley proofs of 'Vision of Judgment' and give the author as the pseudonym 'Quevedo Redivivus'.
Stanzas 1-44: folio 1;
Stanzas 45-92: folio 2.
Dates:
? 1822.
Galley proofs of 'Don Juan: Canto III' and 'Don Juan: Canto IV' (to stanza 105), by Lord Byron., 1820.
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Identifier: MS.43395
Scope and Contents
Corrected proofs of ‘Don Juan’ by Lord Byron consisting of:Canto III, stanzas numbered 1-23: folio 1;Canto III, stanzas numbered 47-70 and 21-46: folio 2;Canto III, stanzas numbered 71-85, 104-110, including ‘Isles of Greece’ stanzas numbered 1-9, and Canto IV: folio 3;‘Isles of Greece’ stanzas numbered 10-16, Canto III stanzas numbered 86-103, Canto IV stanzas numbered 1-14: folio 4;Canto IV, stanzas numbered 15-34, 55-58 and...
Dates:
1820.
Galley proofs of translations from Latin of the diary of John Cam Hobhouse during his travels with Byron in Portugal, Spain and Italy., 1815.
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Identifier: MS.43391
Scope and Contents
There are some minor annotations on folios 1, 7 and 9.
Dates:
1815.
Genealogical papers of Andrew Stuart., 1767-1804, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8290-8324
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, drafts and memoranda concerning the genealogical researches of Andrew Stuart for his ‘Genealogical history of the Stewarts’, and other works.
Dates:
1767-1804, undated.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, bound in the first volume of which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume.
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Identifier: MSS.1703A-B
Dates:
[1759, circa 1770], 1901.
Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, volume I, bound in with which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume. , [1759, circa 1770], 1901.
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Identifier: MS.1703A
Dates:
[1759, circa 1770], 1901.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Grangerized copy of ‘Scottish men of letters of the eighteenth century’ (London, 1901) by Henry Grey Graham, bound in the first volume of which are proofs of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume.
‘Heredity and politics’ by J B S Haldane, consisting partly of manuscript, and partly of typescript, both extensively amended, together with proofs of some of the tables and other illustrative items., [1937-1938].
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Identifier: MS.20564
Scope and Contents
The book, which was published in 1938, is an expanded version of a series of lectures given at Birmingham in 1937 under the title 'Human biology and politics'. In view of the numerous additional paragraphs written on separate sheets the text is stamped with a series of consecutive numbers (7 to 230) to indicate the correct sequence to the printer.
Dates:
[1937-1938].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane.
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Typescripts and manuscripts of J B S Haldane for projected books.
'Iceland Saga' (2005)., 2000-2005.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13542/152-155
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...
Dates:
2000-2005.
Incomplete and undated proofs of works by John Hill Burton, with some miscellaneous newspaper-cuttings., [Before 1882.]
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Identifier: MS.9446
Dates:
[Before 1882.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Hill Burton, advocate and historian, consisting chiefly of letters to Burton, together with a few miscellaneous notes and memoranda written by him.
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Miscellaneous papers of John Hill Burton.
Incomplete manuscript, typescript, and proofs of volume I of ‘The life of George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen’, by Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, with copies of the illustrations and lists of reviews of the work., [1911, or before.]
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Identifier: MS.19566
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto. He was educated privately, at Edinburgh University, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After a brief period of practice on the Northern Circuit, he was elected Liberal M P for Roxburghshire in 1880; in 1886 he opposed Gladstone's Home Rule policy but held his seat as a Liberal Unionist until 1892. After being defeated by a single vote in 1895, Elliot was returned for Durham at a by-election in 1898. He was appointed...
Dates:
[1911, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
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Papers and correspondence of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
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Political, literary, and miscellaneous papers of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
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Literary papers of Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot.
Jacket proofs for 'Omnibus 4'., 1997.
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Identifier: Acc.11621/182
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.
Dates:
1997.
Letters and notes concerning the publication by John Murray of 'Works of Lord Byron'., 1896-1915.
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Identifier: MS.43499
Scope and Contents
These letters, notes and proofs all concern 'The Works of Lord Byron', which was edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Rowland Edmund Prothero, and published in 13 volumes by Murray between 1898 and 1904. The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname.Letters of Ernest Hartley Coleridge to John Murray IV, 1896-1915: folios 1-113;Letters of Charles Plumptre Johnson to John Murray IV, 1899-1900: folios 114-119;...
Dates:
1896-1915.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Correspondence of, to and concerning Lord Byron and his circle.
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Correspondence between Lord Byron and John Murray II; with letters of and to John Murray, publishers, relating to Lord Byron.
Letters, manuscripts and proofs of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Identifier: MSS.26031-26035
Dates:
1911-1978.
Letters of R L Stevenson to W E Henley with a poem by Stevenson (first line: 'The Gods are dead. Perhaps they are. God knows') and the proof of a woodcut made by Stevenson at Davos in 1882.
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Identifier: MS.9821
Dates:
1882-1884.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to George Huntly Gordon, with manuscripts, proofs, and other papers., 1817-1831, undated.
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Identifier: MS.3653, folios 33-146
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Letters, 1817-1831, undated, of Sir Walter Scott to George Huntly Gordon; passages, in Scott's hand, of ‘Ivanhoe’ and ‘Kenilworth’ and part of the preface to his edition of R Richard Franck's ‘Northern memoirs’; proofs of the preface corrected by Scott and Ballantyne; proofs, 1828, of the ‘Religious discourses’, corrected by Scott; two letters, 1837, undated, of Lockhart to Gordon; and other papers. The signatures have been cut from many of the...
Dates:
1817-1831, undated.
Letters of William Adams to James Robert Hope-Scott., 1840-1848, [1870, or before].
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Identifier: MS.3677
Scope and Contents
Also contains proofs of William Adams' ‘The shadow of the cross’, and letters concerning Adams.
Dates:
1840-1848, [1870, or before].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of and relating to James Robert Hope-Scott (1812-1873), of Abbotsford.
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Correspondence between James Robert Hope-Scott and William Gladstone, Henry Edward Manning, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Adams, and E L Badeley.
Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.
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Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents
Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates:
1910-1935, undated.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Grove, H. to Gruner, S., 1824-1916.
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Identifier: MS.40493
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Grove, H.Letter, 1847, of H Grove to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.Grover, Henry Montague.Letter, 1824, of Henry Montague Grover to John Murray II. Folios 3-4.
Grueber, Herbert Appold.Letters, 1890-1891, 1893, 1899 and 1901, of Herbert Appold Grueber to John Murray III and John Murray IV. Folios 5-13.Folio 8. Inventory, 1891, for...
Dates:
1824-1916.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Harrison, L. to Hart, H., 1823-1918.
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Identifier: MS.40528
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Harrison, Laurence.Letter, after 1878, of Laurence Harrison to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.Harrison, Mary Anne.Letter, 1823, of Mary Anne Harrison to John Murray II. Folios 3-4.Harrison, Robert.Letters, 1861 and 1874, of Robert Harrison to John Murray III. Folios 5-8.Harrison, W H.Letter, 1856, of W H...
Dates:
1823-1918.