Publications.
Found in 1006 Collections and/or Records:
Author’s annotated copy of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895) by Sir Francis J Grant; with letters and other papers formerly loosely inserted therein., 1895, 1906-1950.
Autograph corrections by Sir Walter Scott to his 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte', 2nd edition, volume iii., 1827.
Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.
This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.
'Autumn journal' (London, 1939) by Louis MacNeice, with annotations by Robert Garioch Sutherland., [1939, or after.]
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
'Backchat' - the Scottish Parent Teacher Council newsletter., 1981-1993.
Minutes, accounts, correspondence and other related material for Connect and its predecessors.
Initially the organisation was the Council of Parent and Parent-Teacher Associations of Scotland, but was renamed as the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) in 1976. It was further renamed as Connect in 2018.
The organisation promotes family engagement in education.
Baron Bertoldi, 'Memoirs of the secret societies of the South of Italy, particularly the Carbonari' (London, 1821)., 1821.
Barry E O’Meara, 'An Exposition of some of the Transactions that have taken place at St Helena since the Appointment of Sir Hudson Lowe' (London: J. Ridgway, 1819)., 1819.
Includes a dedication from the author.
Barry E O’Meara (ed), 'Mémoires Historiques de Napoléon, Livre IX. 1815' (London: Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820)., 1820.
Includes a dedication from the author.
Barry E O’Meara, 'Napoleon in Exile, or, A voice from St. Helena. The opinions and reflections of Napoleon on the most important events of his life and government in his own words' 2 vols (London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822)., 1822.
Includes a dedication from the author.
Berlioz's marked copy of a printed score of ‘Iphigénie en Tauride’ by Christoph Willibald von Gluck ([?Paris, ?1779]).
The copy is imperfect, lacking the title page. In addition to the amendments of Berlioz to instrumentation and dynamics, strips of blue paper on which is written an Italian version of the libretto are pasted to the printed pages, covering the French libretto, through the greater part of the volume. The paper covers in which the volume was previously enclosed are bound in at the back (folios i-iv).
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
‘Birthday scripture text book’ (London, 1866), dated 1967 and belonging to Robert Paul, the minister., 1866-1906.
The text book contains entries mostly of births of members of the Paul family, or of close friends; there are a few deaths also recorded. The dates of events noted vary from about 1820 to 1906.
‘Birthday scripture text book’ (London, 1866) presented to Mary E Haldane in 1868 by a friend identified as 'Miss Pringle of Yair' and used until 1907 to record the births and deaths of members of both the Haldane and Burdon-Sanderson families., 1866-1907.
A small number of leaves found loosely enclosed in the volume are now at MS.20016, folios 401-410.
Bishop Robert Forbes' copy of ‘A large new historical Catalogue of the Bishops of the Several Sees within the Kingdom of Scotland Down to the Year 1688’ by Bishop Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755), with extensive manuscript annotations in his hand., 1755-[?1822].
"Book of reference to the plans of the proposed railway, from the Great North of Scotland railway, near Dyce, to Old Maud and thence to Peterhead and Fraserburgh"., 1856.
Books and articles published by Lucinda Mackay, 1964-2015
This series documents Lady Mackay's professional career as an artist, writer and teacher, containing her art-related papers, her publishing papers, art administration papers, a collection of art-related ephemera, and a file on her teaching career in England and Scotland.
Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
Books IV-VI (incomplete) of the "Handbook of painting" by Franz Kugler, with annotations by ? Austen Henry Layard., ? 1884-? 1886.
The fifth edition of the "Handbook of painting", a translation of Kugler`s "Handbuch der Geschichte der Malerei", was "thoroughly revised and in part rewritten" by Austen Henry Layard. This copy of the handbook would appear to have been used by Layard in his preparation of the fifth edition.
Books published by Lucinda Mackay using the pseudonym Naomi de Plume, 1995-2015
This series documents Lady Mackay's professional career as an artist, writer and teacher, containing her art-related papers, her publishing papers, art administration papers, a collection of art-related ephemera, and a file on her teaching career in England and Scotland.
Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.
‘Brema literata’ (Bremen, 1726), interleaved with manuscript corrections and additions.
Briefings of the National Commission on Education., 1992-1995.
Minutes, accounts, correspondence and other related material for Connect and its predecessors.
Initially the organisation was the Council of Parent and Parent-Teacher Associations of Scotland, but was renamed as the Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) in 1976. It was further renamed as Connect in 2018.
The organisation promotes family engagement in education.