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Printed materials. Object genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 1186 Collections and/or Records:

Estate and business correspondence and related papers., 1761-1931, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15106-15112
Scope and Contents

The papers include balance sheets and business correspondence of the various firms in which the Ellices held an interest and papers concerned with the purchase and development of the Ellices Highland estates.

Dates: 1761-1931, undated.

First edition of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" (1981) with annotations in the hand of the author.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14530
Scope and Contents

Manuscript annotations to the text on pages 490, 491, 538, 539 and 545 were intended by Gray to be included in new editions of the novel.

Dates: 1981; 2017-2019.

Full score, piano reduction and piano condensation of ‘Coriolanus’ by G W Crawford., [1930, or before.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21888-21889
Scope and Contents

A typed programme note tipped in at the front (folio 1) of MS.21888 records that the first performance of the work was given in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 1930, and the second (and first broadcast) performance was given at Bournemouth, 1932. A fragment of the printed programme records the other works played.

Dates: [1930, or before.]

Gathering d (pages 33-48) of the Kelmscott Press edition of ‘Syr Perecyvelle of Gales’ (London, 1895), printed on vellum.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10800
Scope and Contents

There are illuminated borders of flowers, foliage and stylised ivy leaves in pink, blue, green and gold, in imitation of mediaeval work. A letter of Robert Steele to the donor, 1939, is inserted, which states that the illumination was done under the direction of William Morris.

Dates: 1895, 1939.