Box CLX-A-353

Scope and Contents This ‘scrapbook of curiosity’ consists of 18th century original advertisements of Rare and Curious Books, Jests, Wits, Facetia, Books on Angling, Poetry from 1730 to 1771. The title page is written in neat, probably late-18th century manuscriptA compilation of over 170 advertisements for new publications, cut from a variety of daily, weekly and monthly periodicals of the mid-18th century. Many of the snippets ate dated, but the works from which they have been extracted are not...

Scope and Contents

Handwritten revision notes and examination papers from 3rd year medical students, University of Edinburgh. The documents were enclosed in a copy of the British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1934.

Scope and Contents Galley proofs of the December 1959 issue (vol. IX, no 3) of the periodical The Voice of Scotland: a quarterly magazine of Scottish arts and affairs, edited by Hugh MacDdiarmid. An example of these very scarce galley proofs, 25 pages on art paper, printed on one side only. This number was never published. The contents comprise a 5pp. editorial by MacDiarmid, in which he announces the death of Edwin Muir; MacDiarmid's long poem 'The Chinese Genius Wakes Up'; nine...