Prospectuses.
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
"An Illustrated List of Books suitable for Christmas Gifts"., 1903
"An Illustrated List of Books suitable for Christmas Gifts"., 1905
"An Illustrated List of Books suitable for Christmas Gifts"., 1922
Business papers of John Blythe Kinross., 1927-1984, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Peter Guthrie Tait, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Edinburgh University., 1868-[circa 1874], undated.
Prospectus of a new club to be started in Edinburgh (later the Edinburgh Evening Club), with relevant letters to Peter Guthrie Tait, 1869; letter of Tait to ‘Nature’ with notes by James Clerk Maxwell, circa 1874; letters of Dean Ramsay and Charles Dodgson to Tait, introducing students of mathematics to him, 1868, undated.
Correspondence, notes, proofs and press cuttings concerning 'Letters and Journals of Lord Byron', by Thomas Moore and to the events surrounding the destruction of the memoirs of Lord Byron, 1821-1835, 1938, undated.
Correspondence of Hilda D. Spear, with related prospectuses and photographs.
Correspondence principally to, and of, Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar relating to the Edinburgh, Dundee & Northern Railway and to the Aberdeen Railway Company., 1841-1844.
With printed prospectus (folio 1) and report (folio 8) concerning the Edinburgh, Dundee and Northern Railway and other papers relating thereto, 1841-1844.
File containing assorted leaflets, fliers, prospectuses and postcards relating to exhibitions and other cultural events and activities concerning the arts., 1992-1993.
Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).
The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.
Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.
Joint prospectuses of the Edinburgh School Board Continuation Schools., 1915-1919.
‘Journal of a trip to the Island of Gottland, Sweden, Denmark, &c., &c., with Some Correspondence, and Remarks upon the Capabilities of that Island as a Field for Emigration, by John Shedden Dobie'.
The author was one of a party who made a tour of inspection of Gottland in connection with a scheme, promoted by Robert Chambers, the publisher, to settle British farmers there. Their report was entirely adverse. The volume includes a printed prospectus of the scheme, relevant newspaper articles, and correspondence with Chambers, 1850, and is illustrated with several water-colour sketches.
Later additional prospectuses, 1959-1987
This sub-series contains original print prospectuses for John Murray publications. Files cover a later period than the earlier series of prospectuses, and these files have not been indexed to the same degree of detail by the company.