Category: Libraries
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Armorial Bindings at the Signet Library: I. Bishop Cesi’s Leslie
I recently had the pleasure of teaching a workshop on descriptive bibliography at the Signet Library, the second I’ve now given there for postgraduates keen to develop their book historical skills. Last year I had noticed a splendidly bound copy of Bishop John Leslie’s De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum (Rome, 1578) decorated with what…
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Perthshire Libraries: Leighton and Innerpeffray
Perthshire is unique in Scotland – perhaps unique in Britain – for containing two seventeenth-century public libraries, both still housed in purpose-built early modern buildings: the Leighton Library in Dunblane and the Innerpeffray Library in Innerpeffray. The Leighton Library was established in 1684 under the terms of the will of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow…
Kelsey Jackson Williams 