| ROXBURGHECLUB | Association of bibliophiles, founded in 1812, for the purpose of printing rare works or manuscripts (9,4) |
| VIGNETTES | Foliage ornaments in books, carvings or manuscripts; illustrations fading into borderless backgrounds; or, head/tailpieces on title pages or at the beginning of chapters (9) |
| HANDLISTS | Succinct catalogues, finding aids or inventories of books or manuscripts, for example, for easy reference (9) |
| PIPELINE | Place for works that are in the works ... or what the message formed by the connected letters is? |
| PARCHMENT | The skin of certain animals treated to form a durable material used for bookbinding or manuscripts (9) |
| SPENCER | British Conservative prime minister assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812 (7,8) |
| PERCEVAL | British Conservative prime minister assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812 (7,8) |
| TALLSHIP | Vessel in the War of 1812, for instance: 2 wds. |
| FOLIO | Sheet of paper folded in half to make two leaves (four pages) of a book or manuscript (5) |
| MOTIFS | Recurrent or dominant themes or elements in paintings, textile prints, musical works or artists' A...a urges (6) |
| ATOZ | The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged |
| SURETE | Criminal investigation department of the French police force, founded by Eugene-Francois Vidocq in 1812 (6) |
| SALAMANCA | Key battle of the Peninsular War, fought in Spain in 1812 (9) |
| LACUNA | A gap or space, especially in a book or manuscript (6) |
| ANTHROPOLOGY | Collection includes rare work: 'The Study of Man' (12) |
| OFFFORM | Describing indifferent quality of folios or manuscripts, initially (3,4) |
| PURPLERAIN | Blur, Pulp in rare work of genius |
| LEAPYEAR | '1812', for one, is bound to have noisy climax and corny bit (4,4) |
| PLAGIARISM | What is the act of taking and using another's works or ideas as one's own? (10) |
| CHARLESTOWNOFABERLOUR | Full name of the Speyside town with a mile-long tree-lined high street, laid out by Mr Grant of West Elchies in 1812 (11,2,8) |
