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![A and J Main and Co Ltd publication cover](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/fa063aac-dc97-4d42-b0de-a5ad00b75671/AJ%20Main.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
A & J Main and Co. Ltd. Catalogue No. 197
Trade Catalogue of A and J Main and Co. Ltd, Clydesdale Ironworks, circa 1890.
![A Grammar of Colouring](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/28709fac-bc22-432c-9b18-a5ad00c33aad/A%20Grammar%20of%20Colouring.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
A Grammar of Colouring
A compilation of the 1800s chemist, George Field, intended to give decorative artists information on the origin, composition and properties of various pigments, dyes and paints.
![Front cover of A History of Scotland's Landscapes (paperback)](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/54e91209-07e9-4fba-8943-b14800da763a/history-scotland-landscapes-paperback.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
A History of Scotland's Landscapes
These evocative spaces provide unique evidence for the way this land and its wealth of resources has been lived in, worked on, ruined, abandoned, restored and celebrated.
![A person standing on a slipway watching a boat as it sails down the river](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/a592871b-ac92-4556-8047-af3f0104b5f2/a-life-of-industry.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
A Life of Industry
The Photography of John R Hume
John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. In A Life of Industry, author Daniel Gray tells John's story, and the story of what has been lost – and preserved.
![A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/b04eda87-da85-41d4-b849-a7c200bdafd3/Thatched%20Buildings.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland
This publication is a photographic survey of thatched buildings in Scotland, surveyed between May 2014 and August 2015 by Zoe Herbert, on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
![A Work of Beauty](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/9eb752fd-f763-4ff4-b423-a58600bfbed3/A%20Work%20of%20Beauty.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
A Work of Beauty
Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh
Alexander McCall Smith curates his own story of Edinburgh, combining his incisive wit with a wealth of stunning imagery drawn from Scotland’s national collection of architecture and archaeology.
![Building Knowledge: An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/480975be-ae89-447c-923c-a5bb00f87aa5/Building%20Knowledge.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Building Knowledge
An Architectural History of the University of Glasgow
Appealing to a wide audience this is a prestigious publication which celebrates some of Glasgow's most recognisable buildings.
![Building Stone Resources of the United Kingdom Map](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/8e3a5d98-9187-4381-b423-a5ca00fee02c/Building%20Stone%20Resources%20of%20the%20UK%20Map.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Building Stone Resources of the United Kingdom Map
Building Stone Resources of the United Kingdom Map - This map is published by the British Geological Survey, and is a joint venture with HES and other principle heritage and industry bodies.
![Building with Scottish Stone](https://app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.net/imageprocessor/d6cb3248-fc1e-406c-8afd-a59100f8d91b/building-with-scottish-stone.jpg?mode=pad&width=400&height=400&bgcolor=ffffff)
Building with Scottish Stone
This guide aims to encourage use of stone sourced from Scotland’s working quarries and to provide a better understanding of those mineralogical properties that give each stone its distinctive quality.