Page proofs. Proofs (printed matter).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Proofs printed from matter that has been composed into pages, usually after galley corrections have been made but before plates are made.
Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:
Page proofs of Alexander Scott's collection of poems, 'Cantrips', [1968, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26478
Page-proofs of ‘Cleg Kelly’ by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, as it appeared in the ‘Cornhill magazine’, July 1895-March 1896, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.9988
Scope and Contents
The proofs represent a subsequent and almost final revision of the manuscript (see MS.6517).
Dates:
[1896, or after.]
Page proofs of 'Collected poems' by Robert Garioch, with manuscript corrections by Sutherland., 1976.
File
Identifier: MS.26594
Page proofs of ‘Forest voices and other poems in English’ by Edith Anne Robertson., [1969, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26978
Scope and Contents
The proofs differ from the published text, but the few manuscript corrections which they contain were not made in the final version. Pages 1-5 and about four pages at the end are missing.
Dates:
[1969, or before.]
Page proofs of "Going up to Sotheby's" (London: Granada, 1982), by Muriel Spark., 1982.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10989/64-67
Dates:
1982.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing manuscripts, research material for critical works, and papers concerning her autobiography, 'Curriculum vitae'.
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Literary papers of Muriel Spark, containing works of prose, poetry and drama.
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Poetry of Muriel Spark.
Page proofs of ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose’), and ‘The Abbot’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1819, or before; 1820, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.3401 [Proofs]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Ivanhoe', proof pages corresponding to: volume i, pages 17-166; volume ii, pages 33-48. The pages corresponding to volume i, pages 87-166 are set in a different type from that of the rest of the proofs and of the published book.(ii) ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose'), proof pages corresponding to: volume iii, pages 49-192; volume iv, pages 145-312, 325-330.(iii) ‘The Abbot’, proof...
Dates:
[1819, or before; 1820, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Page proofs of the first editions of novels or portions of novels of Sir Walter Scott with extensive corrections and additions in Scott's hand.
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Page proofs of ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose’), and ‘The Abbot’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand; with original binding.
Page proofs of ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘Tales of my landlord' ('The bride of Lammermoor' and 'A legend of Montrose’), and ‘The Abbot’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand; with original binding., [1819, or before; 1820, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.3401
Dates:
[1819, or before; 1820, or before.]
Page proofs of 'Niger: the life of Mungo Park' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1933.
Item
Identifier: MS.26046
Dates:
1933.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Page proofs of ‘Quentin Durward’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1823, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.3404
Scope and Contents
‘Quentin Durward’, proof pages corresponding to: volume ii, pages 3-331; volume iii, pages 3-357.
Dates:
[1823, or before.]
Page proofs of 'Scottish scene' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., [1934, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26051(i)-(ii)
Dates:
[1934, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Page proofs of 'Scottish scene' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., [1934 or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26051(i)
Dates:
[1934 or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
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Page proofs of 'Scottish scene' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Page proofs of 'Scottish scene' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., [1934 or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26051(ii)
Dates:
[1934 or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
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Page proofs of 'Scottish scene' by James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Page-proofs of 'Selected poems of William Dunbar', edited by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1950.
Item
Identifier: MS.27078
Dates:
1950.
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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Broadcasts and speeches of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Editorial work of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Page proofs of the first editions of novels or portions of novels of Sir Walter Scott with extensive corrections and additions in Scott's hand.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3401-3404
Scope and Contents
There are also many comments by James Ballantyne, pointing out mistakes or raising questions, in consequence of which Walter Scott frequently alters the text.The quantities of text contained in these proofs are indicated in the descriptions of the individual manuscripts by reference to pages of the volumes of the first editions.At the beginning of MS.3401 is inserted part of the catalogue of the 1868 sale of Cadell's collection of Scott manuscripts, at which all...
Dates:
[1819, or before-1823, or before.]
Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’, and ‘Quentin Durward’, by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1822, or before; 1823, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.3403
Dates:
[1822, or before; 1823, or before.]
Page proofs of ‘The fortunes of Nigel’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive corrections and additions in Scott’s hand., [1822, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.3402
Scope and Contents
‘The fortunes of Nigel’, proof pages corresponding to: volume i, pages i-xlviii, 1-313; volume ii, pages 1-334. There are three complete sets of proofs of the 'Introductory Epistle' (pages i-xlviii), each representing a stage in the process of correction.Thus, the manuscript corrections of the first are incorporated in print in the second, and those of the second in the third, which itself has further manuscript corrections.The first two sets have been...
Dates:
[1822, or before.]
Page proofs of 'The Oxford book of Scottish verse', edited by John MacQueen and Tom Scott., [1966, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26481
Page proofs of 'The rock and the bird' by Sydney Durward Tremayne, with a few manuscript corrections., [1955, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26677
Dates:
[1955, or before.]
Page proofs of 'The swans of Berwick' by Sydney Durward Tremayne, with a few manuscript corrections., [1962, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26679
Page proofs of 'The turning sky' by Sydney Durward Tremayne, with manuscript corrections., [1969, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.26681
Page proofs of volume I of ‘The history of Scotland’ by Sir Walter Scott, with extensive additions and corrections by Scott.
Item
Identifier: MS.23139
Dates:
1829.
Page proofs, undated, of "Kirk O'Field" by Edward Albert., [1925, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9067
Dates:
[1925, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Edward Albert (1890-1944), who graduated Master of Arts in English at Edinburgh University, 1908, and spent his professional life as English master at George Watson's College, Edinburgh.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of, and notebooks containing material collected for, the fictional works of Edward Albert.
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Manuscript, typescript and page proofs of ‘Kirk O'Field’ by Edward Albert, an historical novel of the period of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Page proofs, with corrections in the author's hand, of ‘A letter on the proposed change of currency' by Sir Walter Scott, writing as 'Malachi Malagrowther'., [1826, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4867
Dates:
[1826, or before.]
Page proofs, with corrections, of volumes I and II of Homer's 'Iliad', printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1756., [1756, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3290-3291
Dates:
[1756, or before.]
Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'., 1922-[1935, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26036-26062
Scope and Contents
James Leslie Mitchell usually wrote at a typewriter, and few manuscripts survive. For the sake of economy, he frequently used the blank versos of his typescripts for another work at a later date.
Dates:
1922-[1935, or before.]