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Printed materials. Object genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre of written works published or otherwise available in printed form, usually on paper.

Found in 1186 Collections and/or Records:

Printed menu of the dinner given for James Maclehose, as editor of the 'Scottish Historical Review', with associated correspondence inserted at the back.

 File
Identifier: MS.9592
Scope and Contents

The letters are to James Maclehose and George Neilson from various people, including Peter Hume Brown, the historian, and Sir Herbert Maxwell. There is also a page of verse by W P Ker, written for the occasion (folio 5).

Dates: 1909.

Printed page of 'Scandalum Magnatum’ regarding Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron., 1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.43405
Scope and Contents The single folio here is the first page of an article entitled ‘Scandalum Magnatum’ that was printed in the ‘Satirist’ in 1813.The article recounts a scene involving Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron at a party of Lady Heathcote held on 5 July 1813. It claimed that Lamb grew jealous of Byron showing attention to other women and cut herself with a dessert knife. Lamb later claimed that she had not intended to hurt herself but was injured when other guests tried to...
Dates: 1813.

Printed pamphlet by Sir Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet, Lord Minto, entitled ‘Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh’, [1752], with manuscript alterations and additions possibly in the hand of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19979
Scope and Contents

The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.

Dates: [1752, or after.]