James Hamilton

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A red car is parked out in the sun next to a white harled windowless building.
Drain pipes cast thick rectangular shadows onto a brick wall
A street corner with a tower house and young trees just out of blossom. A white van looks on from the left.
Three books: Francis Bedford "Cairo to Constantinople", Mike Weaver "The Photographic Art" and Vera Punter's "Whitsunday's Child: A Country Life in Pictures".
Ink drawing of a young man standing next to a desk where an elderly man reads a letter. The old man's dog sniffs at the young man.
A three-quarters sepia view of a country cottage with harled walls and a tiled roof. The cottage stands on an unmetalled road and has a sign over the door reading "Bunyan's Cottage". Two boys, one wearing a bowler hat, are visible in the garden to the left.
A white car is parked outside a row of nineteenth century stone-built end of terrace houses on a dark wet day.
An alabaster creature, halfway between sheep and dog, guards the feet of a knight on a tomb in All Saints Church, Harewood House.
A log lies on grass; in the background can be seen a modern brick school building with a tall concrete chimney.
Exhibition catalogue cover for Eyewitness showing a woman's face framed by light from a leaded window.
Cover of 1927 guidebook to Paris and the Great War battlefields, decorated with sketched details of Notre Dame.
A green book jacket showing Robert Adamson's salt print "He, greatly daring, dined" which shows a hungover David Octavius Hill being comforted by an onlooker.
The words of the Bunyan/Dearmer hymn, He Who Would Valiant Be.
A photograph showing the Signet Library in Edinburgh beside St. Giles Kirk. The image is probably late 1880s as St. Giles has been restored: gas lamps light the area and a row of horse cabs wait in the Square outside the Library.
A view camera on a tripod stands on a wooden river barge painted white while the figures of a man and woman in white clothes look on.
A brown cardboard cover to a pamphlet of 1928 entitled "With John Bunyan in Bedford and Elstow" by Frank Mott Harrison. The publisher is F. R. Hockliffe, who served as Mayor of Bedford.
The front cover of Edward Mendelssohn's "The English Auden" showing the poet lighting a cigarette.
Postcard view of John Bunyan's Cottahe in Elstow. One ground floor window is covered over with cloth, perhaps because it had been broken.
Cover odd a 1920s postcard booklet labelled souvenir of Elstow, Bedford
Two Edwardian stonemasons turn to the camera during the raising of the parapet on Dean Bridge which can be seen behind them.
The front cover of Allan Peden's Festival Pub Guide, with an engraving showing men, women and children in early nineteenth century costume gathered outside Burn's Tavern - likely to be Johnnie Downie's howff in Liberton's Wynd in the Edinburgh Old Town.
Bright detailing and moulding in the window on the corner of West Adam Street and Richmond Place
Eamonn McCabe's dramatic image of the Cambridge 8 sinking in the Thames
A wall beside a road covered in Edwardian advertising posters, including ads for Colman's Starch, Vinolia and Camp Coffee.
Monochrome view looking down a street of flat - fronted stone houses towards a spired church in the distance. Some cars are parked further down the road.
An office block at night with rainbow-coloured lights and the River Tay at bottom right
A brightly-lit service gate surrounded by grey brick; red bin bags are piled to the right. The gate is opening.
A light brown exercise book carrying the printed advertisement of George Brown, The Mound Book Store, Edinburgh, offering bookbinding and student notebooks.
The red sandstone of the National Portrait Gallery away in the distance; the large windows of the building in the foreground are set against its light stone, agreen exit door and a blue wheelie bin.
The jacket of Claude Lanzmann's memoir "The Patagonian Hare" which contains his account of filming "The Shoah", his nine hour film about the Holocaust.
An elderly man crosses the road. Behind him stretches the Firth of Forth, its smooth surface rippling and catching reflections of the evening sun.
A small book in a white dust jacket decorated with line drawings - The Architecture of Scotland by George Hay from the Oriel Press.
A cartoon of Sir Walter Scott's Dominie in raptures at a collection of books with the Below Stairs Books shop sign.
The former office of photographer James Valentine in Reform Street, Dundee. It is now a branch of the Nationwide Bank. The shopfront has grey pilasters beneath a balustrade in the same colour.