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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:

Copy, apparently the licence copy, of the play 'The fair Quaker' by Edward Thompson.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9045
Scope and Contents

The volume is made up of pages from a copy of the 1769 edition of ‘The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, the Humours of the Navy’ by Charles Shadwell (originally published in 1710), bearing numerous small textual alterations and deletions, and leaves containing a great deal of new or completely revised material, written in a formal contemporary hand.

Dates: [1769, or after-1773, or before.]

Copy of the 'Evidence taken before the Lords Committee' ... on the 'Act for making a railway from Glasgow to Crofthead ... to be called the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19980
Scope and Contents

This manuscript relates specifically to objections to it raised by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr railway company, but also includes much evidence from local manufacturers as to the use they could make of the proposed line. The line was opened in 1848.

Dates: 1843.

Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.

 File
Identifier: MS.22152
Scope and Contents The opera is based on the Border ballad collected by Sir Walter Scott (folio 1).Of the many corrections the most substantial are the additional leaves at folios 11, 21, 35, 38 (formerly stapled to folio 39), 45 (formerly stapled to folio 44) 46, 53-54, 57 and 100 (formerly stapled to folio 101). Leaves are cut out after folio 80 and 108.The score is preceded by a typed press release (folio i) and a printed programme (folio iii) of the premiere, which was performed in...
Dates: 1974-1976.

Corrections and additions by the first Earl of Cromer in an advance proof of a speech he afterwards delivered on Free Trade and Protection to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Unionist Free Trade Club on 10 January 1908.

 File
Identifier: MS.2250
Scope and Contents

Also included are three letters to the donor, James MacLehose, the Glasgow printer (including one from Lord Cromer accompanying the corrected proof), the final printed copy of the speech and the menu and toast list of the luncheon at which the speech was delivered.

Dates: [1908, or before.]

Correspondence and musical compositions of James Scott Skinner; with other material, including some of John Davidson., [Circa 1883-circa 1917], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.22075
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Some writings on music by John Davidson and some musical compositions in his hand. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence of James Scott Skinner. (Folio 12.)(iii) Musical compositions of James Scott Skinner, [circa 1883-circa 1917], undated, arranged chronologically (folio 51), and, where undated, alphabetically (folio 99). A few are copied in Davidson’s hand but most are in Skinner's autograph. Many are written on scraps of paper...
Dates: [Circa 1883-circa 1917], undated.