Booksellers and bookselling
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Outgoing correspondence and copy reply letters, 24 Feb 1981 - 15 Apr 1981
File
Identifier: GD61/4/3/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence sent by the Secretary of the Edinburgh Branch of the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG). Topics discussed include the Gay Centre’s book collective, the befriending group’s cheque book, and premises management.
Dates:
24 Feb 1981 - 15 Apr 1981
Possible Archive. Letters, 23 Apr 1992 - 3 Mar 1995
File
Identifier: GD61/4/1/9
Scope and Contents
Topics discussed include training (including gay issues and awareness training for Lothian and Borders Police); statistics (attendance at team meetings), staffing (resignations); safer sex campaigning leaflets, both Lesbian safer sex and for men who have sex with men; HIV and AIDS education (including the Take Care Campaign); bus advertising campaign; Switchboard Meridian profile; the Age of Consent campaign; correspondence sent to members; the West and Wilde Bookshop Development Fund;...
Dates:
23 Apr 1992 - 3 Mar 1995
Scrapbook of curiosity, 1730-1771; 1840s;1859
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0240
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...
Dates:
1730-1771; 1840s;1859
SHRG Edinburgh Befriending Team Minutes, 12 Jan 1983
Item
Identifier: GD61/1/1/2/38
Scope and Contents
Topics discussed include: control of Befriending Team's finances; visit from the police regarding books on sale; artificial insemination; meeting with Edinburgh District Council on Alcoholism; a forum which would host workshops on counselling; future financing; membership update; and an agreement to contact Samaritans to discuss their policy on dealing with suicide calls.
Dates:
12 Jan 1983
Two Autograph Letters Signed from James Halliwell to Sir William Tite, giving his professional advice on books relating to Shakespeare, 20 May 1865; 1 January 1866
File — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0029
Scope and Contents
Two Autograph Letters Signed from James Halliwell (later Halliwell-Phillipps) to Sir William Tite (1798-1873, architect). Both sent from 6 St Mary's Place, West Brampton, London, 20th May 1865 and 1st January 1866.In the first letter dated 20 May 1865, Halliwell gives his professional advice on a copy of a book with an "interesting connexion to Shakespeare" that Tite is interested in for his collection. He also advises on how much the book would fetch at a sale, and how much to...
Dates:
20 May 1865; 1 January 1866