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Prospectuses.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents designed to inform prospective investors or patrons, consisting of a formal summary of a proposed commercial, literary, or other venture, or a description of the features or services of an institution or business.

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of John Blythe Kinross, relating to various financial undertakings., 1927-1969.

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Identifier: Acc.8699/19
Scope and Contents Containing:British Corosit Button Co: copies of a speech made by Kinross at a creditors’ and shareholders’ meeting, 1931.Old Gate Estates Ltd: transcript of the evidence of Kinross in the case against the valuers Topliss, Harding and Russell, 1939.Crown Flour Mills: Printed report and accounts, 1939, 1942.Public Benefit Boot Co: Printed note concerning the board, ca. 1940.Col W A Bristow, the inventor of coalite: Autographed copy...
Dates: 1927-1969.

Papers of John Rennie concerning harbours in places beginning Ay-Br., 1771-1821.

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Identifier: MS.19789
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Ayr, copy of a report by John Smeaton, 1771, printed Acts of Parliament, 1772, 1794, and correspondence, 1805, (folio 1); (ii) Balbriggan, correspondence, 1818, 1820 (folio 32); (iii) Barton Ferry, correspondence, 1817 (folio 47); (iv) Belfast, reports and letter, 1815, 1817, 1821 (folio 50); (v) Berwick, estimate and correspondence, 1807-1814, 1817, 1820-1821 (folio 74); (vi) Boston, parliamentary bill, 1812, letter, 1821. Further papers mentioning this...
Dates: 1771-1821.

Papers of Robert Moir., 1537-1862, undated.

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Identifier: MS.21775
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) A psalm setting by Robert Moir written on two leaves cut out of MS.21774 after folio 17 and pasted to a larger sheet of stiff paper. (Folio 1.)(ii) Extracts from newspapers and other periodical publications concerning musical topics published between 1852 and 1862 (and some from earlier sources), written on twenty-five printed bifolia (from a larger number) containing a prospectus and a subscription list for ‘Beauties of the Bible’ by...
Dates: 1537-1862, undated.

Portion of the autobiography of George Miller, bookseller in Haddington and Dunbar, covering the years 1803 to 1818.

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Identifier: MS.5409
Scope and Contents

Some leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the volume.

Inserted are some letters to George Miller, printed prospectuses, subscription sheets, etc.

Dates: [1818, or after.]

Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates: 1777-1831, undated.