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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.

Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:

Printed catalogue, [?1814], of Kelso Library with manuscript additions to 1826.

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Identifier: MS.14241
Scope and Contents

A list of the proprietors of the Library in February 1827 has been added (folio 1).

Dates: [?1814]-1827.

Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.

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Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents

The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.

Dates: [1791, or after.]

Printed copy of 'Toom Byres' by Robert McLellan., 1936.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26334
Scope and Contents

This published version was used in a production of the play by Perth Theatre, and is annotated for the actor playing the part of Sir Andrew Ker.

Dates: 1936.

Printed page proofs, and drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’ by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, with notes on Lord Hailes work., [1776, or before], [1779, or before], undated.

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Identifier: MS.25360
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Printed page proofs of parts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, with marginalia in the hands of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Lord Hailes (folio 1); (ii) Drafts of parts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volumes I and II, with notes by Samuel Johnson (folio 22); (iii) Notes by William Robertson and another on Lord Hailes' work, undated (folio 116).

Dates: [1776, or before], [1779, or before], undated.

Printed pages of ‘Fugitive Pieces’, ‘Poems on Various Occasions’, 'Hours of Idleness' and ‘Poems, Original and Translated’, by Lord Byron, with notes, revisions and additions by Henry Buxton Forman., 1884-1896.

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Identifier: MS.43399
Scope and Contents The pages here are of poems contained in the first four publications of Lord Byron. They have been heavily annotated by Henry Buxton Forman.Henry Buxton Forman was a well-known bibliographer and, it was later discovered, forger. He and John Murray [III] had agreed that he would work on a new edition of the works of Byron for Murray in the 1884. This never came to fruition, but the proofs here are the result of the start of that work and was sent to John Murray [IV] in 1896....
Dates: 1884-1896.

Printed papers relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus., 1830-1859.

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Identifier: MS.19588
Scope and Contents

Printed material consisting of proposed heads of a bill (folio 1) and the subsequent act (folio 9) relating to the making and maintenance of roads in Angus, 1830-1831; Patrick Chalmers’ annotated copy (and another) of the 'Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill, 1836' (folio 20); 'A Bill for the better management of Highways in England', 1859 (folio 26).

Dates: 1830-1859.